Surprised st how well the PC games I’ve tried under Parallels/Windows 64arm work

[Thomas Davie]

On an M1 Macbook Air, 16 gb ram, 1 tb ssd, 8 cpu/8gpu model (I really have no idea what to call it). Running the developer’s build of Windows 10 arm64 under a trial version of Parallels

Tried the Windows insider build that is publicly available. I let Parallels install it w/o really paying any attention. As soon as I was at the desktop, I installed Fallout 3 Game of the Year from my backup GOG files. Went ok, it autoset the graphics to the highest setting. Game works at 2500x1600 both on the built in display of the MBA and the Samsung 32 monitor. Haven’t done any frame rate checking.

I did have a bit of trouble installing Fallout, b/c it was unable to download/install Net framework. I edited a policy on windows enabling the downloading of optional components.

So I’m buying/downloading Steel Division 2 (also GOG) to see it ot will install/work.

Tom

 

[Thomas Davie]

Steel Division 2 installs and runs ok inside of W10 arm64 inside of Parallels on M1 MBA.

Tom

 

[robco74]

If you want the rundown on how many games run under M1, I would check out Andrew Tsai's YT channel, where he runs several games under Rosetta, Crossover, and Parallels.

 

[Thomas Davie]

Thank you. I’ve located and will post in that thread.

Tom

 

[Homy]

Home - Gaming on M1 Apple silicon Macs and MacBooks, bugs, fixes, compatiblity and troubleshooting guides - AppleGamingWiki

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[Grimgasten]

Steel Division 2 installs and runs ok inside of W10 arm64 inside of Parallels on M1 MBA.

Tom Could

Steel Division 2 installs and runs ok inside of W10 arm64 inside of Parallels on M1 MBA.

Tom

How would you say it runs? I’ve been trying to get some more detailed information on it.

Planning to get parallels to play Steel Division and some similar games on my M2 Mac Mini.