Does anyone have Parallels on their Mac? :)

[Cal]

Just would like to know what's it like and is it easy to use. Haven't really read much on it tho!! but I'm quite tempted to get it so I can just play the sims 4 :o_o:

Thank you for your help in advance!!

[Jessea]

Yep, it is extremely easy to use! Took me a long time to get all set up since I torrented/downloaded it and everything else needed for it to work, but once I got it working it worked brilliantly without any problems. I was expecting it to take me to lag hell and make everything run super slow since it is a massive program, but it didnt do that at all! I even ran another massive game on top of that (I was using it to play Maplestory) and it still worked amazingly with little to no lag. So Sims 4 should definitely run smoothly.
All you gotta do to get it going is click the file and wait for the virtual screen to start up, and from there you just use it like a normal computer. You can also continue to do whatever on your mac since the whole virtual PC screen is in its own window.

[Cal]

Thank you so much Jessea, I'll definitely look into it ^__^!! thanks again lovely :rolleyes:

[Jessea]

Jessea WHERE DID YOU TORRENT IT? Or how? I've been trying to get it cracked without an activation key and can't figure it out.


I wish I knew, but this was 2 years ago and I've forgotten how I did it. I do know it took me around 2 days and a LOT of searching to finally get all the right files to get past the activation key. Even if I could find the torrents I used they probably wouldn't work anymore because Parallels has had updates since then (I think its up to Parallels 10 now?) All I can suggest is that you look up as many tutorials and guides as you can, read forum discussions and watch youtube walkthroughs. That's what I did and trust me if I could get it working, anyone can. :p

[chiro]

I've used parallels for years, I prefer bootcamp really. But it will due.

Except recently it decided it doesn't like me and will no longer open because of some weird error, which I have the actual paid version of it and that makes me sad.

[Jessea]

Teal Omg could you link me to it? I've been wanting to download it again!

chiro Thats one reason why I refuse to pay for it, I'd be pissed if I got some stupid error like that and couldn't run it. Also I think I heard that you have to pay $60 for an upgrade every time they release a new version. No thanks.

[chiro]

Jessea I paid for it maybe 5 or so years ago, and got a free upgrade just last year as I skipped 3 upgrades in between. I didn't mind continuing to use it as I got it free.

If I get around to fixing it I am definitely torrenting the latest one, as the error popped up only after my MBP had a bunch of updates within the last two weeks.