While it would take longer than usual when transitioning from an indoor area to the outside, everything felt smooth in a 1440p resolution with high settings.Ĭrash Bandicoot: N.Sane Trilogy was another surprise. While Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes would run at 40 FPS on medium settings with the M1 Mac mini, it was full speed on high settings here. I tried the same settings with each game as before, in a resolution of 1440x900 at medium settings, and it resulted in full speed across the board.

Resident Evil 3 is running worse this time, with more graphical issues, making it unplayable, regardless of everything in graphic settings on ‘low’ or ‘off’.

Trying to load up Halo Infinite through the Xbox app also refused because of the same reason. This is a graphics engine, originally created by Microsoft, that allows developers to run their games on certain machines. Since our testing in August, Windows 11 has been released, alongside an ARM version, so we installed Steam, Epic Games, Rockstar Launcher, and the Xbox app to see how these would run on the MacBook Pro.Īgain, DOOM and Dragon Ball FighterZ refused to work, mainly due to the DirectX framework they’re built on. The Pro edition includes a Visual Studio debugging plugin that now works on M1 Macs, among other bonuses specific to some professional use cases.With Parallels Desktop 17 fully compatible with M1, this means that we can run certain apps on Windows, within the app to see how games can run. Parallels Desktop 17 costs $79.99 annually for the standard edition or $99.99 for the 'Pro' edition. The other big addition is virtual TPM chip support for Windows 10 and 11 virtual machines, facilitating features like BitLocker and Secure Boot. As is customary with these annual updates, the new version of Parallels Desktop will be able to run on Monterey host machines or run Monterey in virtual machines. Don’t forget MontereyĪlso, support for this year's new version of macOS, Monterey, has been added. There are other improvements to Coherence, too, like Windows shutdown and sign-in screens that are presented in a way that feels more native and natural within macOS. For example, you can now drag and drop content between apps running under macOS and those running in Windows while using Parallels in Coherence mode. There are other added features and quality of life improvements, too. Also, both Intel and ARM Macs will see up to sixfold-better OpenGL performance with Windows virtual machines.

In particular, DirectX 11 performance is getting a boost (Parallels says it's 28 percent faster). In any case, Parallels is claiming significantly improved performance on M1 Macs compared to last year's release, which was the first to add support for said Macs.

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