Parallels Desktop Compatibility list

Parallels Desktop 18 Compatibility list tested by Paulthetall.com

Below you find the list of games I personally tested so far on my Apple Silicon MacBook Pro. The list will expand drastically in the coming period. The Tested games will get their own Parallels game page (todo). The more cores and memory you set in Parallels, the the better the performance (especially with bigger games this is important for nice and smooth gameplay).

Required Parallels Desktop config settings:
Configure —> Options —> Full screen —> full-screen for games
Configure —> Options —> Sharing -> Manage Folders —> your account selected
Configure —> Hardware —> Graphics -> Scaled

Working:
A Plaque Tale: Innocence (playable!)
Age DE (Great!)
Age 2 DE (Great!)
Age 3 DE (Great!)
Age of Mythology Extended (Great!)
Anno 2070 (Great! Need also directx9 setting in engine)
Anno 1404 History Edition (Great!)
Assassin’s Creed Rogue (great!)
Battlefield 1942 (Great!)
Battlefield Bad Company 2 (Great!)
Bully (Great with setting 6 cores and 8GB memory in Paralells)
C&C Red Alert (Great!) (configure —> Graphics -> Scaled)
C&C Red Alert 2 (Great!) (configure —> Graphics -> Scaled)
C&C Red Alert 3 (Great!)
C&C Tiberian Dawn (Great!) (configure —> Graphics -> Scaled)
C&C Generals (Great!) (configure —> Graphics -> Scaled)
C&C Renegade (Great!) (configure —> Graphics -> Scaled)
C&C 3 (Great!)
C&C 4 (Great!)
C&C Remastered (Great!)
Call of Duty – Black Ops (Playable! Requires config settings change (1280×600 + 2x 0)
Call of Duty 3 (Good!)
Call of Duty Bad Company 2 (playable)
Call of Duty 5 – World at War (Good!)
Call of Juarez Gunslinger (good playable)
Civilization 3 (Compatibiliteit win7 -> C3X – Updates | CivFanatics Forums patch)
Cossacks 3 (Great!)
Crazy Taxi (Great!)
Delta Force (window/full-screen) (message MMX compatible processor not found)
Delta Force 2 (Great) (message MMX compatible processor not found)
Delta Force – Sabre Team (Works great!) (message MMX compatible processor not found)
Delta Force Land Warrior (Great) (message MMX compatible processor not found)
Delta Force Taskforce Dagger (Great) (message MMX compatible processor not found)
Delta Force Extreme (Great) (message MMX compatible processor not found)
Delta Force Extreme 2 (Great) (message MMX compatible processor not found)
Dragon Age Origin (Great!)
Elder Scrolls 3 – Morrowind (great)
Elder Scrolls 4 – Oblivion (Great!)
Elder Scrolls 5 – Skyrim SE (playable)
Empire Earth (Playable with some glitches, mostly fixed by a few gfx settings)
Fallout 2 (Great!)
Fallout New Vegas (playable)
Fallout 4 (Playable)
Grand Theft Auto – San Andreas (Great!)
Grand theft Auto IV (Great!)
Grand Theft Auto V (Geat!)
Halo Combat Evolved (Great!)
Half Life 2 (Great!)
Hitman Absolution (playable)
Just Cause (Great)
Just Cause 2 (Great)
Kayne and Lynch 2 – Dag Days (playable)
Mafia (Great!)
Mass Effect
Max Payne (great!)
Max Payne 3 (Great!)
Metal Gear 2 – Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Rising: Revenge (Nice!)
Might and Magic 6 (Great!)
Microsoft Flight Simulator X (Great!)
Need for Speed most wanted (good playable lower GFX settings)
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit (good playable lower GFX settings)
Overwatch (Great!)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Great!)
Payday the Heist (Perfect)
Pharao – New Era
Port Royale 3
Red Faction Guerrilla Remastered (great but crashes once in a while at a start of a mission, after restart it then runs fine where you started)
Red Faction Armageddon (Good!)
Rocket League (Great!)
Spintires (Great!)
Strongholds 2 (Great!)
Railroad Tycoon 2 (compatibility XP + copy steam.dll in game folder)
Rise of Nations (Great!)
Sine Mora EX (Great!)
Spore (Great!)
Tacoma (playable)
Track mania Nations Forever (Great!)
Titanfall 2 (low GFX settings great!)

Not Working:
Dishonored (way slow)
Company of Heroes (crash when starting Campaign)
Fallout 3 (Crash on load new game)
Men of War Assault squad 2
Need for Speed Shift 2 unleashed (glitches)
Call of Juarez (Crash on launch)
Inversion (crash in launch)
Grand Theft Auto 3 (unhandled exception)
Grand Theft Auto – Vice City

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