VMWare Workstation graphics bugs in Diablo 2

[danteafk]

Hey Folks,

I'm running VMware® Workstation 15 Pro 15.5.6 build-16341506.

Intel 9900k

32GB RAM

SSD/NVMes

2080Ti

Playing Diablo 2 over the VM, assigned 60GB Space, 4GB Ram, 3GB graphic RAM and 4 cores of my CPU.

After some time my game is glitching out, textures either black or missing, test is missing , flashing textures etc. I need to restart the game to make it go away until it reappers.

Any Help?

Thanks

[hahakiki2010]

Could u upload the vmware.log and stats logs if it's a performance issue? Thanks

1) Enable the stats log in VM setting

2) add "mksStats.enableTiming = TRUE" in vmx and rerun the test

3) upload the VMware.log and stats folder under the VM folder.

[danteafk]

how am I doing step 2) ?

[RDPetruska]

how am I doing step 2) ?

Make sure the VM is shut down and the tab not open in Workstation.

Open the vmx file in a text editor.  Add the line in step 2.  Save and close.

Reopen the VM in Workstation and run it.

[danteafk]

vmware #1 logs.zip (16,00 MB) - uploaded.net

[hahakiki2010]

I checked the log, it seems DX11 is not enabled in your guest.  Could u upgrade your VM to HW18 and install the latest bundled tools and see if the issue still exists?

Thanks,

Best Regards,

Yan

[banackm]

Are you running Diablo 2 in DirectDraw or D3D mode ?

Whichever mode you're using, you might try switching to the other one by re-running the install / video test or something.  (It's been a while, since I've looked at it.)

Both mechanisms should be playable on modern PCs, although the DirectDraw path uses less of the host 3D acceleration, so if you're running into a host driver issue, the DirectDraw path is probably more stable.

[danteafk]

Hello,

What is HW18?

[danteafk]

It was running in glide. I will try directdraw later.