Windows itself runs poorly like I said when you click on the start menu.Īny tips for making VMware 3d support work better? If you are not using compatible GPU cards in your VM host to offload the 3d workload, then you are consuming additional CPU resources to “Emulate” 3d support via software. I am not even to using the software, which it does work on its own. I think this has something to do with the opengl driver and its support in VMware but am looking for any help. The software runs on many pcs and does not need very much computing power. Side note, the VM needs 3d support because I am trying to run some cad software we have for a cnc. The minute I check that box it becomes very slow and unresponsive.Ĭlicking the start menu takes 5 seconds or so to open even the mouse movement is slow. The vm works perfectly when I have it running without 3d support enabled. I switch the auto detect for video memory back and forth from me specifying it to auto and it doesn’t seem to matter.

It is version Specs are ram 1 socket 4 cores.

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