The VMware Fusion and Workstation team is excited to announce the release of our 20H2 Technology Previewfeaturing the first drop of our DirectX 11 support!
Quick links to the bits:
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If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked 12 alternatives to Microsoft DirectX and eight of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Microsoft DirectX are Vulkan (Free, Open Source), SDL (Free, Open Source), GLFW (Free, Open Source) and Allegro (Free, Open Source). DirectX is a set of components in Windows that allows software, primarily and especially games, to work directly with your video and audio hardware. Games that use DirectX can use multimedia accelerator features built-in to your hardware more efficiently which improves your overall multimedia experience.
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- Provides support for DirectX 11 (Direct3D v11) and OpenGL 4.1 graphics capabilities in the guest operating systems! Obviously DX11 is Windows guest only, but OpenGL 4.1 applies to Linux guests as well.
- Hundreds of new games and applications can now run in Fusion and Workstation!
Increased Hardware Maximums: MONSTER VMS
- Both Fusion and Workstation Tech Preview 20H2 support up to 32 processors and up to 128GB of RAM per virtual machine, as well as 4GB of shared graphics memory
Sandboxed Graphics Processes
- We’ve dramatically enhanced virtual machine security by using a special non-root “sandbox” process for rendering 3d hardware assisted graphics. This further isolates the Guest VM operations from the Host, significantly reducing the viability of privilege escalation to the host.
Improved External GPU support
- Host rendering engine now takes full advantage of eGPU capabilities
- Special thanks to the community for the feedback on this!
To get started with DX11, VMware Tools needs to be upgraded, and the Virtual Hardware Compatibility version must be set to v18. Existing VMs can be upgraded by adjusting the virtual hardware compatibility while the VM is powered off. After power-on, you can then upgrade VMware tools as you normally would. With new VMs you may need to manually set the virtual hardware version to v18 before installing, so double check.
Committed to our users, we’ve been working hard on this feature for many years, and so we welcome your feedback!
Let us know your experience! Does your favourite game work? Glitchy? Looks perfect? Help us improve by sharing in our Fusion Tech Preview Community Forums or our Workstation Tech Preview Community Forum
Today, popular virtualization software Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac becomes available to new and current users. The flagship feature is support for DirectX in virtual Windows machines via Apple's proprietary Metal graphics API. Other additions include a handful of new macOS Catalina-related features and improvements to transitions between Mac and Windows software running on the same machine.
When we wrote about Parallels Desktop 14 around this time last year, we asked about Metal support. The application then still relied entirely on OpenGL in macOS, and Apple had already announced that continued support for OpenGL would end. We were told it was coming, and we were not misled: the new version of Parallels Desktop now supports DirectX 9, 10, and 11 via Metal. Previously, DirectX 9 and 10 were supported via OpenGL and DirectX 11 was not supported at all. Parallels' rep noted to us that 'Metal and DirectX work best in Catalina.'
Apple's new macOS Catalina software for Macs launches this fall, and Parallels Desktop 15 supports a few of the key features of that new release. That includes Sign In with Apple, which can now be used to authenticate with a Parallels account. Catalina also means you can use your iPad as an external display alongside a Mac via Apple's new Sidecar feature—and Parallels makes this work not just for macOS applications but for Windows as well. Apple Pencil support is included for both environments.There's a plethora of additional features both Catalina-related and otherwise—Bluetooth low-energy support, the ability to drag items from Safari or Photos in macOS to your virtual Windows machine, and more—which you can read about on the Parallels website. But one of the recurring themes we noticed during a presentation of the new software by Parallels was improvements to how Coherence mode works.
Coherence facilitates seamless movement between Windows and macOS apps; it essentially puts Windows apps in macOS windows, which includes macOS-like behaviors, a place in the Mac's dock, and so on. Sometimes, this might create confusion for users unfamiliar with it, so many small aspects of the transitions and workflow for Coherence have been improved for clarity and efficiency.
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Additionally, Parallels Desktop 15 Pro and Business editions now feature a Virtual Platform Trusted Module, which is 'a new virtual machine hardware to VM configuration required by Windows to enable additional security features.'
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Ottawa-based Corel acquired Bellevue, Washington-based Parallels in December. Corel also includes WinZip, CorelDraw, PaintShop Pro, WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, and numerous other software products in its portfolio. This is the first major Parallels release since the acquisition.
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Perpetual license upgrades to Parallels Desktop 15 start at $49.99. Meanwhile, new subscriptions start at $79.99 annually while new perpetual licenses start at $99.99.
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