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Sluggish Video Performance in VMware

ConeHatMage
in Windows 9x/ME

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I've dug up an old Win98SE CD (with COA) and installed it on my 30-day trial of VMware Workstation v5, but after installing VMware additions and DX 9.0c, the video performance is still very sluggish. Even the "maxmise" animation lags. What should I do? Try MS VPC instead?

Edited by ConeHatMage


Did you install VMware Tools? It includes the VGA Driver as well as some other ones

The vmWare tools are not the best things in the world for multimedia, especially when it comes to video. I remember reading that vmware tools have no graphics acceleration at all, but I don't know about video. It might be that the vmware tools only install a standard vga driver which (imo) sucks for videos and especially gaming, (except for really old DOS games.) On the plus side, with the audio driver I think you can still play MP3's perfectly.

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I checked, the video card installed by VMware Tools do NOT have any kind of DX acceleration! Can they be enabled? Even the card on my old Pentium III-866 has them...

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