38 Macworld • December 2019REVIEW
Apple Metal allows Windows games and
applications like Autodesk 3ds Max to perform
better than ever, thanks to DirectX 11 supportalways a big improvement over previous versions.
And wouldn’t you know it, they’ve done it again
this year, too.Heavy metal
For those who spend as much time in a Windows
virtual machine as they do native macOS, Parallels
Desktop 15 for Mac is a godsend thanks to support
for Apple’s hardware-accelerated Metal graphics
API, which replaces aging OpenGL. As a result,
Parallels now supports Windows applications
that rely on DirectX 11, while offering improved
performance for DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 as well.