Did anyone try the new parallels?

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Guess the topic says it all, did any of u guys try the new parallels 3.0. if so is it worth upgrading?

thanx ;)
 
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sorry, any beta testers out there? ;P
 
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now that its out. whats ur input?
 
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It's out? Nice! I really want to pick up a copy, but I want to know how it handles 3D graphics first as that will be one of my primary uses.

Just a little patience. I'm sure within a day or two there will be reviews, Youtube videos, Etc.
 
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true, thats why i created this thread, i just wanted to see peoples inputs before buying it my self.
 
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I am running it right now. The thing is great. I have no problems and XP is running smoking fast. I have not tried to install any games yet, I need to see which ones are supposed to work and try some of them out. What questions do you have.
 

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It runs fine so far. It DOES NOT run Aero on Windows Vista (yet). I believe this has something to do with the fact that the 3D card is not properly detected during installation, yet you can't run the "performance score utility" to get Vista to enable Aero (it halts, indicating there's an unknown error). I'd imagine a fix has to be imminent.

I haven't tried any games yet, but will report back when I do.
 
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are you paralleling off of a bootcamp XP drive, or did you go straight Para? expanding or constant size?? system specs please.
 

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are you paralleling off of a bootcamp XP drive, or did you go straight Para? expanding or constant size?? system specs please.

Virtual HDD, dynamic sizing enabled.




<=== Specs are here.
 

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Well Eve-Online doesn't seem to work. :(

Did you remember to reinstall Parallels Tools after upgrading? It needs to install the latest version of the video driver.
 
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Did you remember to reinstall Parallels Tools after upgrading? It needs to install the latest version of the video driver.

It installed it automatically after the upgrade, just like originally. Unless there is another version to download.....
 
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im having problems with installing parallels tools for some reason whenever i try to install them the application closes, im using windows xp home edition. thats what i got with my laptop, it was working fine with parallels 2.5 can someone help me with that?

When i go to Add/Remove programs in windows, i dont see the parallels tools there, but i can find them under c:\Program File\Parallels the mouse switches between osx and widows normally but i cant drag and drop files from windows to osx, even when i enable the clipboard synchronization it doesnt work, any inputs?

regards.
 

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im having problems with installing parallels tools for some reason whenever i try to install them the application closes, im using windows xp home edition. thats what i got with my laptop, it was working fine with parallels 2.5 can someone help me with that?

regards.

Did you try removing Parallels tools first?
 
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i cant removing them, nor can i install them.
 

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i cant removing them, nor can i install them.

With Windows XP running, click the Actions menu and see if there's an option to cancel the installation of Parallels tools. If so, click it. Then, go into Add/Remove Programs, select Parallels Tools from the list and click 'uninstall'.

Let me know if you get any error messages.
 
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Anybody here tried the new Coherence mode? Does that work as well as advertised?
 
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There is install parallels tools, when i click on that, it opens up a window in windows, and it starts installing, then it stops at a certain point and the whole program shuts down.

i cant find parallels tools in the add/remove programs

NVM. i just removed the Parallels folder, and reinstalled everything, its working fine now, thanx for the tip.
 
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Anybody here tried the new Coherence mode? Does that work as well as advertised?


This mode is great. Its a little weird seeing the start bar at the bottom of my mac and the dock off to the left at the same time. This is probably the best part of 3.0
 

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