I have just begun running Parallels 3.0(Windows XP SP2) on my Mac Pro.

I loaded a game(Crysis) running on CryEngine 2.
When i clicked on the "Play" button in the load screen, it disappeared and nothing happened for a minute or so.
Then a error message entitled "Cryengine 2" popped up.
It read:

Unsupported video card!
"Parallels Video Driver" [vendor=0x1ab8,device=0x1131]
Continuing to run might lead to unexpected results or crashes.

I clicked on either "OK" or "CANCEL" and nothing happened.

I then installed Parallels Tools, the only difference now being that it now reads:
"Direct3D HAL" [vendor=0x10de, device=0x014f]
instead of the above "Parallels Video Driver" [vendor=......]

Any ideas what i need to do?
Do i need to download DirectX drivers and/NVIDIA drivers?
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help as i have been trying to sort this out for the last week.

Tommy

Mac OSX 10.4.11
2x2 GHz Dual Core Intel Zeon
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
1GB (512MB x 2) 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

Crysis is a very hardware DX9/DX10 intensive game. I dont think Parallels can handle it. Try running Crysis in Pure Windows XP with BootCamp.

I thought Parallels can't do 3D accelaration at all?

i think crysis can't even run in fusion, so parallels just leave it...

Crysis has very demanding hardware requirements, it needs at least 2.2 GHz Dual Core processor, 2 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT or above etc, so forget running it on parallels, it wont even run on a real windows partition nicely!!

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Actually it can (I run some games thru Parallels). I also surprised when found it out. But it is true, Crysis is much resourse intensive game so Parallels can't cope with it. I use BootCamp to run games with high system requirments. Threadstarter, try to run Crysis thru it. I've heard some possitive reports from people who do run it thru this app.
My recipe is to use Parallels Desktop for working and BootCamp for gaming!

Oh, I found some useful and helpful information about Parallels 3D support and Parallels gaming! Check it! There are also list of the games that Parallels does support. I've noticed that some games are pretty resource intensive as well..