Has anyone tried playing FFXIV on a Mac via Parallels?Follow

I have a 15" MacBook Pro Retina (w/ 2.6 GHz i7 and nVidia GT650). I play FFXIV in Bootcamp (Win7) and it plays really well.. I keep it on "Laptop(high)" with shadows off and I get about 45 FPS most of the time and 30 FPS in busy FATES and cities.

I don't own an up-to-date version of Parallels (still on 7) but I've heard 9 is much better at handling graphics. I own Parallels because I used to need it for work, but work went from Window software to web-based software and now I don't really have that requirement any more. I was thinking of upgrading anyway because Parallels 7 won't work with OSX Mavericks.

Anyway .. if anyone has any experience they can share about playing virtualized on the same Mac, or a mac with a similar GPU, I would really appreciate it. I certainly don't expect equivalent framerates, but if I could confirm at least "fully playable on low" I'd be happy.

(And PS - I do have a gaming computer! Please no rants about how Macs are not good for gaming.. I know this! It's my work laptop).

currently playing on my GF's mid-2010 15" macbook pro, has a geforce 330m graphics card... i'm running FFXIV in windows via bootcamp. i have to turn all the settings way down to get a good framerate (or i can turn them up to get OK framerates) but its definitely playable and enjoyable!!!! even in big time fates and stuff :)

havent tried running it through parallels yet but im assuming it would run a little slower. not sure though!! if anyone tries this let us know how it works

Edited, Oct 6th 2013 4:24pm by chillpickle

yeah totally! ive heard others getting great performance by overclocking the GPU & CPU... but im too scared to risk that so ill take how it is now :)

keep in mind though, on my mid-2009 13" macbook pro (significantly less powerful components as the 15" i play on), i get pretty terrible performance, even with low settings. its not really playable at all. so it depends on what model you have :) but if you have anything newer than 2009 and a 15" or 17" chances are it'll run just fine :)