| chevy's right -- while Parallels and VMWare Fusion are excellent at running most Windows programs in a virtualized environment, it's still not the same as running under Windows natively.
Parallels has limited DirectX and 3D support, and I don't know if VMWare's Fusion has any at all. Any kind of 3D games or 3D software will not run all that great under these virtualized environments -- for that, as chevy said, you'll probably want to boot into Windows natively via BootCamp, since the graphics drivers for Windows are much better that way.
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