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Video memory limited to 4MB

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

 

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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.

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wila
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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/2905...

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Niclaus
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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

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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.

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

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