ATI card driver problems on guest WIN7

[Stolea]

Is there a better driver than the VMWare SVGA 3D that is installed on my Win7 guest?

The setup:

Win7 as guest in VMWare Workstation hosted by Ubuntu 10.04

60gig disk, 2048 MB ram

ATI 5450 1G ddr3 memory

My problem is that while the display functions perfectly for most things, but when I do some Photoshop work the area of the image that I am working on turns into coloured blocks and tends to lock the whole virtual machine. Also some icons like the user icon in the start-up panel pixelate the same, but they don't bring the whole system down.

I also have an XP virtual machine that runs the same software without any of the problems.

Any ideas how to fix this?

[continuum]

sounds like you use WS 8 - did this work better in WS 7 ?

[Stolea]

Yes VMware workstation 8.0.1.

its a new install, I never had it on workstation 7.

Interestingly the same version runs XP without any problems

[continuum]

I see video artefacts in WS 8 too - that never was a problem with WS 7 for me

[Stolea]

I don't really care if some icons do their little pixel thing, but when Photoshop doesn't work, that is a real problem.

The part of photoshop that doesn't work is actually a HDR plugin from NIK. It does that pixeling thing the same as some icons, only on a bigger and fatal scale.