Nvidia 8800GT Driver for Windows XP in Parallels?

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Hi,

I have my Mac Pro with the 8800GT and he is awesome. Now I installed Parallels, because I want to try some games.

After I installed XP (with SP2), the videocontroller was not found (yellow question mark).

What driver should I use? I tried the Nvidia Driver from nvidia.com, but this did not worked for me.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Marcus

 

[aaronw1986]

Virtualization uses generic video card drivers. You can't install drivers from nvidia.com. Virtualization currently provides very minimal hardware acceleration. For game you'll want to use boot camp.

 

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bootcamp is not possible, because I use the RAID Card

But I think it should be possible to play games in parallels: http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/features/3d/

 

[Eidorian]

It depends on what games you want to play. YMMV trying to get them to work in Parallels.

 

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And which videocard driver? Or is it not necessarily to install a VGA driver? I have still the yellow "?" in my hardware-manager.

 

[Eidorian]

I've only used the one that Parallels provides since it is a generic video card environment. You have to enable experimental DirectX acceleration as well. I was never able to get Homeworld or Unreal Tournament to work.