Sluggish Video Performance in VMware

[ConeHatMage]

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 August 22, 2005 by ConeHatMage

[JuMz]

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

[Guest Jlo555]

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.

[ConeHatMage]

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...

[Controller Khan]

Vmware 5 includes experimental dx acceleration

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_vidsound_d3d.html ri

I haven`t tried it yet.