


In order to parallels to run you have to have an entire copy of windows running atop OSX, this allows for 100% compatibility with windows because you are physically running windows but also adds the additional CPU load of having 2 operating systems and both operating systems tasks going on at once, also you dont get hardware accelerated graphics properly.Ĭrossover however allows you to *attempt* to run windows software on OSX without actually running windows, when an application tries to call a win32 API function crossover works out what is trying to be called and taps into OSX to do the equivalent functions, the speed impact is near negligible, the compatibility impact is massive although BeamNG does run inside it ok. Parallels is a tool to virtualise windows running within OSX. Click to expand.Parallels doesnt run it faster.
