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By adding the Touch Bar to the latest MacBook Pro, Apple has added a way for Mac users to access all manner of tools without having to click a mouse or trackpad.Everything sits at the top of the keyboard, mere inches from where your fingers already rest. The Touch Bar is specially designed for use with Mac-based programs. I wanted to provide an update to the display issue with this build and Parallels 10. I went into the system settings for the Windows 10 vm and disabled 3d acceleration (it was set to Direct x10 by default). In the Mac menu go to Actions (the Virtual Machine menu in older versions of Parallels Desktop) -> Configure.-> Hardware-> Video. For Windows 8.1 and 10 Check Enable Retina resolution option for your virtual machine - Windows will immediately change its resolution, though virtual machine reboot is recommended.
I have just downloaded Ubuntu onto my mac using parallels. The only issue is that the Ubuntu window is about an inch too small each side. I have checked the display settings and the only display setting I can choose is 800x600(4:3). I have attempted to change this using:
Change screen resolution:
Create a new resolution using
cvt :
Add a new mode to the existing list (newmode is the name and remaining portion is):
but once I enter the newmode an error message pops up saying 'failed to get size of gamma output default'.
I am trying to get this working on my laptop not a monitor.
Christian FutschikChristian Futschik
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I've seen several posts about Windows 10 (and 8/8.1) scaling up on retina Macbooks, but none really outlining everything or answering my question directly. I've got a 13' retina Macbook Pro, running Windows 10 on Parallels. When I first installed, the resolution was set very low by default so I went to change it but noticed the highest resolution I can pick is 1920x1200.
So my question is this:
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Should I be able to choose a higher resolution since my retina display is 2560x1600? I've set it to the highest available (1920x1200) and changed the 'text, app, and other items' size to 125% but it doesn't look as crisp as everything on the Mac side. Is there anything else I can do to increase the display resolution/quality?
Or has anyone tried this with bootcamp and had different results? It could be the drivers from Parallels.
I realize this is a preview build of Windows 10, I just want to make sure I'm not missing something.
UPDATE:
I forgot to mention that in the Parallels settings, under Hardware -> Video, I've checked the box for 'Enable Retina Resolution', but I haven't seen a difference, even after logging out & back in and shutting down the vm and restarting it.
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I used to have the same issue on my Macbook 15' retina,
I did the following;
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Ghaleb BadranGhaleb Badran
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On Windows 10 for me the Parallel Tools weren't installed after the machine was set up. If you click on the parallel bars in the top left on MacOS and go to Actions sub-menu and it says 'Install Parallel Tools' then they never installed correctly on the VM OS.
The other thing I found is that for Windows 10 the tools wouldn't install and kept saying an error occurred (with no info) and I needed to reboot. This was addressed by right clicking the DVD drive file 'PTAgent' and choosing 'Run As Administrator'
Hope this is helpful.
Matthew ErwinMatthew Erwin
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