With new VMs you may need to manually set the virtual hardware version to v18 before installing, so double check. After power-on, you can then upgrade VMware tools as you normally would. Existing VMs can be upgraded by adjusting the virtual hardware compatibility while the VM is powered off. To get started with DX11, VMware Tools needs to be upgraded, and the Virtual Hardware Compatibility version must be set to v18.

It really starts to lag when I use multiple monitors for the display. I use 16 for work with a windows 11 pro vm and while the performance is ok. This further isolates the Guest VM operations from the Host, significantly reducing the viability of privilege escalation to the host. Hey guys I just noticed that the latest version of VMware workstation is out and I’m wondering how is the performance of 17 v 16.

We’ve dramatically enhanced virtual machine security by using a special non-root “sandbox” process for rendering 3d hardware assisted graphics.

Both Fusion and Workstation Tech Preview 20H2 support up to 32 processors and up to 128GB of RAM per virtual machine, as well as 4GB of shared graphics memory.

Hundreds of new games and applications can now run in Fusion and Workstation!.

Provides support for DirectX 11 (Direct3D v11) and OpenGL 4.1 graphics capabilities in the guest operating systems! Obviously DX11 is Windows guest only, but OpenGL 4.1 applies to Linux guests as well.

What‘s New with the Workstation 20H2 Tech Preview DirectX 11 Support

The VMware Workstation and Fusion team is excited to announce the release of our 20H2 Technology Previewfeaturing the first drop of our DirectX 11 support!

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