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3D acceleration will be disabled for VMs as DirectX 11.1 is not supported by the host

When I upgrade my VMware Workstation 16 installation from 16.2.0 to 16.2.1, I get an installation warning message displayed, telling me that "3D acceleration will be disabled for VMs as DirectX 11.1 is not supported by the host":

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On my host, however, even the newer DirectX version 12 is installed:

DxDiag.png

 

What's the meaning of this error message? Does it make any sense or is it just displayed because some installer checks are not working properly?



[VMware]: Workstation 17 Pro; --
[host]: Windows 10x64 host; --
[guests]: Windows 10x64, Windows 8x64.
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