How to play Driving Essentials on Mac

Game summary

Driving Essentials, the premier driver training program, is now available on Xbox. This is not a game, but a real driver training program which, until now, was only offered on larger simulator systems. Driving Essentials offers a complete training program for novice and newly licensed drivers. A virtual driving instructor will take a new driver through a complete curriculum, starting with basic driving skills through more advanced and dangerous situations such as distracted driving. Driving Essentials provides a wide variety of roads and traffic scenarios, many of which would be too difficult or dangerous to train in a real car. The driver will experience city, highway, commercial, residential, and rural environments. In later lessons the driver will face the challenges of rain, snow and fog, as well as day and night scenarios. This is a fully interactive driving experience, not just classroom knowledge. You will be behind the wheel from the very first lesson.
First released: Mar 2019

Play Driving Essentials on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Driving Essentials on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Driving Essentials installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Driving Essentials like you would on any PC.
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