Just recently installed parallels and it's made my mac games unplayable.

Is there anyway of rolling back to the original video driver on snow leopard for macbook pro?
also i have the original backup discs
is there any way of installing snow leopard on top of the osx that I have now without losing any of my data? Thanks for the help in advance.

are you trying to run parallels and mac games simultaneously?
(and)
have you installed the latest update to parallels?
As you are likely aware, you can set parallels CPU usage, ram usage, and video card memory usage. set any of those too high, and the OSX side of your machine will perform poorly.
If you are leaving parallels open when you try to play a Mac game, (as indicated in the thread title), then it is quite possible the Mac game no longer has enough resources to run efficiently.
Does the Mac game in question function well when parallels is closed and not running?
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