The API is typically used to interact with a graphics processing unit (GPU), to achieve hardware-accelerated rendering.” “ Open Graphics Library ( OpenGL) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. In this blog post, I will focus on OpenGL. In almost every major release of Parallels Desktop, we try to improve the support for these two libraries. Many Windows CAD/CAM applications and Windows games use DirectX or OpenGL. There are many factors that contribute to the overall speed of a Windows application running in a Parallels Desktop virtual machine: the speed of the processor in your Mac®, the speed of the hard disk or SSD in your Mac, the macOS® you’re running Parallels Desktop in, the Windows OS installed in your VM, the amount of RAM you have allocated to the running VM*, and many more.įor a Windows application that does lots of complex or 3D graphics, we can add two other factors: the performance of the graphics card in your Mac, and the Windows graphics library that the application uses-DirectX or OpenGL. Every Parallels Desktop® for Mac user wants their Windows applications to run as fast as possible.

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