running games (red alert 2) in vista using parallels on a macbook

okay so i bought a macbook last july (before college) and with it i bought vista and parallels (now i realize i should have bought xp...) . so i am trying to get red alert 2 to work with it. the installer worked great but when i run the game i do not get video. i can hear the sound but no video. the same happens with navy field. both games are old and do not require fast processors (ex. red alert 2 says minimum pen II processor) and so i believe it has somethign to do with direct x or video support in parallels. i am thinking of switching to boot camp and runnig vista that way but first i figure i should check to see if ra2 will run successfuly under parallels... help much appreciated, questions, just ask thanks.. hopefully my post is clear

as far as I know, parallels does not support accelerated video graphics...
running it on bootcamp would work for sure...

You could try to download a trial version of Fusion, which has a setting that supposedly enables the advanced graphics but I'm not sure how well it works on the macbook - which has an integrated graphics chip rather than a separate graphics adapter.

Cheers