topic Re: Video memory limited to 4MB in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions

Video memory limited to 4MB

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 03:33:45 GMT

Not matter whatever I do, I always get 4mb as video memory,

already installed vmware tools, but it didn't anything, I'm currently using windows 10 x64 as host and as guest as well.

currently running on 16GB ram and a nvidia GTX 1080.

tried changing svga.vramSize, but it didn't anything. anyway, it was actually set to svga.vramSize = "268435456" by default.

Re: Video memory limited to 4MB

wila — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 12:08:38 GMT

Hi,

Please read the following threads.

See this answer from BlueFireStorm:

https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Graphics-memory-stuck-on-128mb/td-p/513352

and this explanation from Banackm about newer 3D enabled showing 4MB VRAM whereas older drivers showed 128MB:

https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/video-Ram-stuck-at-4MB-what-now/m-p/2905311/highlight/true#M38856

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Wil

Re: Video memory limited to 4MB

Niclaus — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 21:11:19 GMT

idk what happened to my acc, coming back, idc the video memory value specifically but the fact adobe illustrator doesn't work properly, and isn't detecting the gpu

and due that, is a FPITA to work with this small dialog every time I make a change using the new Adobe's 3d feature, because isn't using the gpu correctly. ofc I kvm'd my environment as temporally solution.

but as far I see, increasing "that supposed memory the vm can use", haven't improved anything. hope this is fixed asap.