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  • the apple already looks bad lol... of course game wont look great guys.

  • i get screen lagg for parallel desktop why? and how do i reduce it?

  • This game looks horrible...you need a video card

  • omg so slow, get PC & Windows :P

  • selling parallels desktop 5 for cheap, msg me

  • Damn, I want Parallels Desktop or Vmware Fusion for GNU/Linux... :-(

  • i have Quake 4 for mac... :/

  • Me too (have Quake 4 for Mac), had a MDD G4 w Radeon 9800 Pro so I had no choice... just got a MacPro 2.66GHz Xeon with Radeon HD 4870 but supporting Mac ports is always a good thing!

  • Agreed. I just bought the Mac version of the game. The demo looked amazing on my 15" MacBook Pro. Can't wait to play through it. ;D

  • how did u run this game!!! if u type dxdiag it says graphics card is parallels video adapter!!!! I tryed bootcamp & it read the graphics card as in atiradionHD2600. But now bootcamp is broken or has an error "when I make a partition it says no disk space availble" but parallels suck I am using parallels desktop 4 & all games I have like fear2 crysitosis oni3 mass effect assassins all only recognise atiradion & nvidia none recognise parallels video adapter!!!!

  • When we use a virtual machine we use VIRTUAL hardware. This means you won't have your REAL video card available to you, but a virtual one that is EMULATED by the virtualization software, which in this case is parallels. But you have other options like VMWARE or VIRTUALBOX (100% and open source).

  • I formatted my mac & installed bootcamp. Advise running real hardware is better performance & graphic wise when playing games.

  • do you need a windows xp cd to do this???

  • Yes, he needs Windows to run this game. You have to install an operating system inside the virtual machine... it can be Windows or Linux. In this case it's Windows...

  • you can, but you can also use a disk image

  • How are you running a game with that much graphics and have it run as smoothly as that? I tried to run Civilization IV on Parallels 4.0 and it is having such a hard time... Had a harder time with Parallels 3.0

  • to be honest i would just use boot camp, i guess this program is just to stop the inconvenience of having to restart your computer each time you want to switch between them.

  • Apple should really start to pursue game developers to code games on OpenGL3. DX11 is on W7 and I fear that PCs would have their chance to mock the mac lovers for it.

  • Oh damn, you are my kind of guy. I mean, yeah, you're so right. Wow, Windows 7 to have DX11 already huh, must have mind-blowing graphic changes to DX10. But yeah, Macs should adopt this kind of technology too, they're already 64-bit and are a pretty powerful OS. Imagine heavy gaming, while expecting smooth operation, on a Mac. GORGEOUS!! lol

  • Windows 7 is damn near perfect and its still only in beta version.

  • what would happen if you ran an emulator through an emulator! o0o0o0o0o

  • It would be the End of the World :(

  • lol emulating an emulator? it would confuse the computer emulating ontop of an emulator and just altogether will cause the computer to crash :P

  • Is this like a Mac Pro?

  • why dont you just download darwine? parrelels and vmware arent as good beacause, your mac or macbook, just has intel core 2 Duo.... That means, if u want to play games with parrelels or vmware, you´ll just be able to use 2 ghz because the other processor is running mac os x allready..... so my idea is to download "Darwine",

  • why darwine though...

  • dvdrothy you are so wrong

  • Fuck Darwine! Tried it only Ran Internet Browsers for me that it VM's work better

  • what windows system did you install? ive got windows xp home edition - 2002 and i can download and install my pc games perfectly fine, but when i try to play them, windows tells me that it ran into a problem and had to quit, the "send error report?" thing, you know?

  • I believe I may ahve had the same problem as you are describing. If it is the same thing, then go to your parallels configuration, and select "Video." If you have parallels 3.0 then click "Enable Directx" and if you have parallels 4.0 then click "Enable 3D something, something."

    Hope this helps!

  • hey, i've got parallels desktop and i can't get ragnarok working... is it impossible?

  • whats better virtual pc or parrelel desktop?

  • i don't think quake 4 would run that fast even natively on my shitty system lol!

  • Hello...

    I dont know if you can help me...

    But are you running the game on a virtual HD or a partition on your mac???

    How can you play games? I'm having that problem

    Thanks.

  • Which is better, parallel or VMware fusion?

  • lol takhle hrat to musi byt na nic

  • what?!

  • lmao i was gonna say the same thing!

  • this sucks

  • Why are you running quake 4 in a virtual machine? you can run it natively on Leopard.

  • screw it macs arent that great in gaming either way im running a 4870x2 playing far cry 2 and that game is insanely awesome

  • omg are you serious i just said i had a 4870x2 that thing comes with 2048mb 4 times more then the macs!

  • Macs are not great gaming machines, but far more powerful on software.

  • that's not true, i installed windows on my mac with bootcamp and can play any game that is out right now on full settings no problem...

  • wow hahaha its things like that, which make people think "are all mac users as dumb as you?" sorry but that was simply a retarded statement you do realise what gfx cards you can potentially get in notebooks... not even thinking of stuff like a 280gtx

    Ps i run leopard

  • looks like crap

  • Indeed...

    The native version is much more fluid. Maybe it's because of the screen capture, but I wouldn't like to play this way.

  • I use Parallels too in a Mac with Leopard, but when i tried to play some games i have problems with direct x.

    Can anyone help me to fix this?

    Thanks.

  • Doesn't Mac OS X have it's own client for Doom 3/Quake 4? That would work much faster, unless this was just a tech demo.

  • how many gigs of memeory are you dedicating to this VM?

  • no kid u dont have luck ... first of quake4 needs a CRT monitor cuz their the fastest look at what fatal1ty uses.second u need gaming equipment unless u play as a hobby and u suck.third try gtx 280 with quad 2,6(x8) and 8gigs of ddr3 memory i think it will work better blah.

  • Lol my PC is faster than urs XP Of course Quake 4 can Lag alot in some Parts of the Game.

  • wow i have luck cause i have Nvidia geforce 8800 with intel core QUAD and its works AWSOME( ow yea i tested on my cousin mac and its works fast too )

  • u can download quake for mac off of the apple website you dont need parallel

  • does cs source (online) works perfectly on prallels 3.0???

  • looks like you're getting maybe 15 fps, man that's completely unplayable.

  • maybe his settings of his virtual machine are verry slow.

  • doubt it

  • Have you thought that the Youtube video may only be 15 frames a second! It's about the speed of a typical compressed video of this kind...

  • I realize that, but there's plenty of other videos, including mine that are much smoother than this one.

  • @thyberthpithe its 35 cap i think, besides, this game is running at about 5 to 8 fps

  • @xJPM100x Ive played on worse than that.

  • @xJPM100x He/She has a screen recorder running

  • ok one thing, This game would work much faster if you bought the MAC version of quake.

  • I have a macbook pro but most games I try to play tell me that my graphics card does not meet minimum requirements. Can someone please help me if you have/had the same problem?

  • its laggy :( i just use xp for gaming and else on osx

  • I have a imac ati hd2600 but parallels doesn' recognize driver card. Help please

  • hay, it's not bad looking for an emulator. Still boot camp will work much better for gaming.

  • What are your specs???

  • This is actually pretty impressive. it looks barely playable though. Bootcamp should be perfect

  • =/ !

  • Hmm, i bought Orange Box and I seem to be having trouble running it in Parallel 3.0. Everytime i start Half Life 2 episode 1, it crashes around the opening cinematic. :( help!!

  • Run it through Boot Camp, Parallels cannot handle 3D games because Windows is not running 'natively' on your hardware.

  • Sorry, I mis-said that; Parallels doesn't work well with Steam games*

  • PLEASE REPLY

    when i try to play games on parallels it comes up with a message saying something about a dll. what do i do?

  • Type the error into Google and add in the keywords "parallels mac" and see what comes up. Hopefully you'll find an answer in some random un-popular forum.

  • Parallels the best!!!

  • noob

  • no parallels sucks, get VMware

  • @NathanIsaac no way! ever since parallels 5 came out its been running laps around what vmware can do

  • anyone interested in buying parallels desktop for cheap msg me

  • Hey dude, I have a question regarding this graphics card. I have recently purchased the orange box and can't get it to work at all. It keeps giving me the message saying that it failed to create a d3d device and it crashes. It does this on virtually every single game on there that I try. Could you tell me what software you installed in order to get this game to work? I don't know what to do. What drivers did you install?

  • Try Bootcamp. ;)

  • What are the specs for this conmputer your using? and the settings for the parallels

  • the best is boot camp it runs windows at a native speed....

  • Its not a good ideea to run games on an emulated OS! The performance its affected big-time!

  • does anyone know where to get a list of pc games that can run on parallel, i tried cs it worked, and heroes v which didn't which basically wasted my money

  • srry. didn't mean to post twice.

  • that's pretty damn good. I tried to play Flyff, Silkroad, and Shaiya on my macbook pro and it just ended up in a hell of lag. seeing this play so smoothly is just freaking amazing. maybe most mmo's are just too much for Parallels.

  • that's pretty damn good. I tried to play Flyff, Silkroad, and Shaiya on my macbook pro and it just ended up in a hell of lag. seeing this play so smoothly is just freaking amazing. maybe most mmo's are just too much for Parallels.

  • A couple of questions.

    What kind of mouse r u using?

    Y is ur graphics card so bad?

  • Dont have a mac but PC w/ dual core processor T2060

    intel graphic media accelerator 950

    80 GB HDD

    1 GB DDR2

    Good enough to play Quake 4????

    Any1 w/ experience to explain would be great???

  • your graphics card it's shit!

  • Your grammar is shit!

  • I don't think so

  • what type of mac do you use on this video?

  • can u full screen the game?

  • does parallels cost or is it free????

  • it cost but i you can use the torrent !!

  • do u have the link for the torrent download or should i search in google?

  • hey i want to know something, i have a virtual pc in my pc, but the virtual machine is pentium 3 lol, ther is a way to make the video card work in the virtual machine oe make it like you did, play quake?

  • Not with Virtual PC

  • Wow this is cool, I'm easily gonna be able to run my old games on this then, yay

  • There is a program for Mac called "Boot Camp", which is almost like Parallels Desktop, but Boot Camp restarts the Mac, and run windows like normal PC´s......It makes it goe faster..

  • The framerate is awful, is it an old mac or something?

  • No, when you're ripping fullscreen video and writing it to the drive as you virtualize an OS at the same time, frame-rate ripping slows because of the drive's speed in order to continue to rip in "realtime" and not lag behind.

  • Can I install Parallel Desktop 3.0 in my PowerBook G4?

  • No. It has a PPC CPU, so virtualization can't be done, only full emulation which is by far to slow for anything.

  • Ok so i have a GMA 950 graphics card and i cannot get any 3d games on my mac( YES i have Parallels) or even maplestory i mean NOTHING

  • Get a mac with a GPU that's not onboard.

  • my commp is a pc not a fucken mac macs suck my dick

  • please backup your statement if not shut the fuck up

  • very low fps ..don't like it

  • lol, i thought q4 had good graphics, lol even worse thn havok engine with HL2 ..dudes try with bioshock or crysis!! they fkn OWN hard!

  • yeh cuz bioshock and crysis are newer games and are made for vista with like good graphics and quake 4 is older

  • I can't believe this works so good, can you tell me what hardware do you have there?

  • cielos!! que graficas

  • I once tried playing Quake 1 from a virtual environment that was yet still inside another virtual environment. LOL

    laggy.

  • nice dude looks good keep up the work there ^^

  • It played decent enough, for a mac.

  • i cant even paly mine its slow and theres black squares all over the screen its argo as hell

  • slow as hell,buy a pc dude

  • It's a start. The IBM(insert swaztika here) reign is finally ending. Yay.

  • that looks laggy as hell u should go buy a windows pc mac SUCK!!!!!!!!!!

  • Go screw yourself. Macs rule !

  • excuse me do we need to run 1 hard lap?

  • macs are useless they have nothing that a pc can not do and do not say there is no virus because their are and if u still do not belive me then u are just dumb

  • Try to do a DVD menu in windows movie maker on PC or just import video from MiniDV camera by firewire

  • LaTeX pwns on Mac sompared to Pc.

  • how many time do i make dvd covers? the answer is none how many games launch for mac? 0 minidv or what ever i have no clue wtf that is so i also do not care. how many games can mac play that are faster then PC? 0 and to top it all of consdering the demo on the video on youtube is playing a game that is what the topic should be about stop fucking degressing about useless shit

  • some people use macs because they can appreciate the operating system. Also pc users talk of these virus and spyware things, I've never heard of them before...

  • that is because u are a n00b

  • He was being pedantic, I think.

  • Go back to school and learn how to spell and write, you freaking dumbass. The irony in your name is hilariuos, you call yourself "Wizkid", but you're obviously totally phukin stupid.

  • e-grammar is serious business.

  • spell? you spelled hilarious and fuckin wrong good goin....

  • Please, thus is just stuid. Don't turn this into a Mac/pc debate 'cuz i use a mac but i don't set fire to every PC I come across...

  • I mean stupid, not "stuid"...

  • thats because he is using screen capture

    and plus Mac OS X doesnt have anything to do with the lag

  • You don´t need windows to play Quake 4.There´s a mac version.

  • Dude, that has got to be the slowest thing i've ever seen!! Mine is so much faster.

  • Its only faster cos your are probabally running it on windows! give apple some credit!

  • if u stopped the adverts it'll be better

  • Hey howd u get that game running on parallels? I tried dl'ing cod4 demo and got a direct x error

  • man thats lag city!

    Quake runs on openGL so thats possibly why this works... dunno of anyone managing to get a DX game running on a mac

  • I'm pretty sure Portal/HL2 runs on DirectX, which works 100% on my mac under Parallels.

  • what kind of mac are you using?

  • get a pc if you want to play games.

  • Thx for uploading this. I'm very glad Parallels now supports Direct3D!

  • If you will have to use Windows, then why you buy a mac. I'm a fan of mac, but lately what I see it's just that people need to install windows on their mac, so why don't you just got a great PC with all that money you would spend on a mac.

  • get a faster comp

  • Boot camp is better than parallels.

  • hey, i would like macs if the only fully upgradeable model was $2500.

  • Non-Mac PC's are superior for gaming because of the higher upgrade / GPU potential, and the fact that games are almost all written for a Windows platform.

    I program and get my work done on OS X, and (thanks to Parallels and Boot Camp) fire up XP to play some Half-Life 2 or Quake 4.

    OS X is superior because it uses a Unix core instead of interlinked DLLs and a bloated registry.

    The only real debate is price and customization, both of which are weak points for Apple machines.

  • Unix 4ever.

  • Runs perfectly on my Macbook Pro

  • I feel sorry for you. My pentium 4 with only a radeon 9200 128mb graphics card plays quake 4 better.

  • I have a Ati Radeon 9250 256Mb graphics card.

    ¡¡¡PCI 8x!!!, no PCI express, no...

  • i will say this....Mac finally got smart and got rid of that retarded g4 (notice the lowercase) and got an intel. Now they've got some nuggets running under the hood.

    end of line.

  • why would i want to run mac on my pc macs are crap there shit and OS is gay so shutup about macs they can't play games

  • dude ur a peice of shit, my mac from 4 years ago could run any game released today at highest settings, dont get cut that they destroy you, research the facts before you say anything, and also, all PC users dont reserach macs before they diss them, thats why they all make fools of themselves

  • The sad thing is that the Mac naysayers cannot admit that the Mac OS is a superior OS. That doesn't mean to say that Windows is crap. What you like is what you like, but let's have some informed criticism rather than pure contradiction which has no value in a constructive discussion.

  • "The sad thing is that the Mac naysayers cannot admit that the Mac OS is a superior OS" let me add to that. " BECAUSE IT ISNT!!" my dad has a mac, i had to set it up For him, even though i use vista. I only like mac for the white appearance. looks and all that. but the operating system is crap. the only game u can play on there is photoshop.

  • if you would like to buy parallels desktop 3.0 (run windows on mac and play games) for cheap msg me

  • What a noob

  • it's easyer to buy a pc then get all that crap for the mac

  • But Mac users know how to spell 'easier' at the very least. Can you run the Mac OS on your PC? No. Rhetoric... if you know what this means. And I assume you mean 'than' rather than 'then'. I'd like to believe this was a typo, but I doubt it. Unless you are a member of the Illiterati,

  • Can I run the Mac OS on my PC? Yes, actually. That won't be true for everyone of course. Blame Apple.

  • Kudos to the Mac for being able to play Q4 as well as it does Emulating. Mac = Compatability.

  • Anyone know what program is being used to capture this video? I cant find a good vid capture program

  • FRAPS

  • i go for full settings...and where it uses 512mb of vid mem...on my 2yr old machine.....it runs nice and fine...ur fps is bad...

  • MAC RLZ

  • waht computer is this

  • says mac3.0 at the top :)

  • it's jittery for two reasons:

    1. hes emulating the OS it's running on (not sure why, since Im pretty sure Q4 is available for mac)

    2. he's recording his screen. that takes up a lot of resources as well.

  • uploading to YouTube doesn't help video quality either.

  • Given that qtime shit sucks balls, it's no wonder.