Parallels Desktop 3 officially released

After teasing us by announcing a release candidate for beta testers (and a sale that is now over) and posting videos of Quake 4 - a very resource-intensive game - running impressively well in Parallels, this powerful new v3.0 of the leading virtualization suite for Mac OS X has been released. Offering significant new features like we already mentioned, such as the highly-anticipated 3D acceleration (XP for now, Vista to come) and SmartSelect for specifying files types to open in apps across virtualized OSes, this could easily be called the most significant release of Parallels since the advent of Coherence Mode.

Parallels Desktop 3.0 sells for $79.99 and is ready for download now, with 15-day trial keys are available to those who already used trial keys for previous versions.

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Source: http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/

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A prospective VMware Customer

Did anybody else by the package with one years free upgrades that is not working with this version (4124)?

Can't see any small print anywhere that indicates any limitations.

June 08 2007 at 5:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Edd

#18 -- Under the VM properties (Edit->VM), go to the 'Video' section. Under the part where you specify custom resolutions there should be a checkbox to enable DX rendering.

However nothing I've tried so far has worked. They've all been D3D apps coughing out the error "cannot create a D3D device".

June 08 2007 at 1:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

spb

Am I stupid, but where is VM properties where I can enable/unable DirectX ?

June 08 2007 at 10:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Edd

2 #14 that's all done dude :(

June 08 2007 at 7:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jon Hendry

Crashes the VM every time I try to install the new Parallels Tools.

June 07 2007 at 11:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rob

#13, You need to go to VM properties and turn on Direct X

June 07 2007 at 9:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Edd

Just to update; no Direct3D games I've tried so far have worked (tried PKR and a patched Final Fantasy 7 :P).

June 07 2007 at 8:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

artifex

Anyone notice how they outsourced their support to some crappy third party? Look at this example:

"Can I use my free e-mail address?
You will receive important information and receipts via e-mail. Products are usually delivered by e-mail as well. You are welcome to use your free e-mail address when placing your order.
However, this does not apply to orders by credit card / UK debit card. To offer this payment type without incurring risks, we can only accept addresses from fee-based e-mail services. If the software publisher accepts free e-mail addresses without restrictions, you are welcome to use them."

Note that that's a non-answer taken from their faq to the simple question of using a free email address. No! Maybe! Yes?
Some support. Looking forward to seeing VMWare's pricing scheme; I know they have good support.

June 07 2007 at 8:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

MikeCP

anyone getting an invalid checksum?

June 07 2007 at 7:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

hessi

Damn, guys, get off the line, right now, the 78MB will take me more than 2 hours.
I do have a 3.0 serial number and a few DX games here, let me test it, damn! ;-)

June 07 2007 at 6:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply