There’s one more option for running PC games within OS X. So for gaming, I’d recommend just sticking with Boot Camp. They’re much better for running word processing software or a Windows email client in OS X. Virtual machines really aren’t designed for gaming, anyway. For older or lighter games, though, it should get the job done.Īnother option is VMWare Fusion, which says it offers access to a Mac’s 3D hardware, but once again, I didn’t have much luck running games in a Fusion virtual machine, bar casual titles. It’s possible to run modern 3D games under Parallels, but performance isn’t going to measure up to what you get from Boot Camp. It offers a nifty coherence mode where Windows applications appear in their own window on the Mac desktop, and it performs quite well, although you might want to turn off support for Retina displays. Parallels 10 isn’t free, but is a long-established name for Mac Virtual Machine software. Virtualbox is free but according to many tests, is the least efficient VM software.
There are a few options for virtual machine software.
