Horrendous mouse performance in 6.0.1

[deeluk]

I've been using VMware workstation for a couple of years now. I've used version 5.5.2, 5.5.3 and now 6.0.1 and I've always had the same problem. Mouse response within a VM, with VMware tools installed, is horrible. I click and it takes around a second for the OS to respond. If I move the mouse between down and up clicks, the event never gets delivered to the window I was trying to hit. Trying to grab a window by it's titlebar and move it, I have to wait a second, at least, before starting to drag it. Otherwise, I get a mouse click in a different window or the desktop.

Has anyone else encountered this? The problem occurs on all VMs I use regardless of the underlying OS. I've used WinXP, Vista, RHEL4, SLED10, SuSe and others. All behave exactly the same. I see the same problem whether or not VMware tools is installed. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

[jayolsen]

Have you enabled Hardware Acceleration on your guest?

Display Settings, Advanced, Troubleshooting, Hardware Acceleration. Set it to full.

[kzr1k9]

Just curious .... does "Display Settings, Advanced, Troubleshooting, Hardware Acceleration" have anything to do with a mouse since it is under .... Display?

Out of habit, I always enable HW acceleration and I always wondered if it did anything for the mouse.

[deeluk]

Yup, display settings, h/w acceleration is set to full. Forgot to mention, it's just about impossible to double-click something with this problem. I think I have to hold the mouse perfectly still. Intermediate mouse move events seem to make it lose the second click. Same with dragging, as I mentioned. If I click the tile bar and move the mouse without waiting a second or so, I haven't grabbed the window. It appears to deliver an event to the desktop or whatever other window I end up releasing the mouse over.