Need help running SoD on my iMac using Windows XP via Parallels

[pfreifeld]

Hi all, I'm dying to get in to SoD as I'm an old school EQ junkie and a couple of my friends just started playing SoD on their PCs. I have an iMac, and my dad gave me a key to Parallels that he got with a software package. Parallels runs fine, and I got all the EQ files from one of the friends that's playing SoD. However, when I try to run SoD patcher pointing to the ********* folder in program files, it starts patching for a second, then quits on me. Sodpatcher.log returns this:

Starting SoD Patcher version 1.80 at 04/12/10 - 00:08:41
Retrieving patcher CRC.
Loading server file list from http://www.shardsofdalaya.com/patcher2/patchlist.php
Loading local file list from \\.psf\Home\Desktop\\sodfiles.txt
Checking target: C:\Program Files\*********\Chardok_chr.txt
Checking target: C:\Program Files\*********\EQGfx_Dx8.dll
Checking target: \.psf\Home\Desktop\Mumble.exe
Downloading http://www.shardsofdalaya.com/patcher2/sod/Mumble.exe

And then it craps out. Any ideas? Please help! I need my fix!

TIA!

 

[pfreifeld]

I've been trying to follow advice from this thread:

http://forum.shardsofdalaya.com/archive/index.php/t-2506.html

but I'm pretty much stuck at the same place. I don't think it has anything to do with running parallels, but I'm pretty sure it's graphics-related so who knows. Any ideas?

 

[Diodimus]

I'm not 100% sure on this, but it has been my understanding that SoD doesn't seem to work right on a Mac.

 

[Boehm]

virtual machines don't often have great 3 d graphics support. I would check your graphics driver options in windows xp as i suspect the os probably selected a basic vesa card by default. check that and select any 3d option.

if that doesn't work, i would google parallels and *********. you might want to check the parallels forums to see if there is anything on running ********* as well.