Workstation VM doesn't recognize 3D graphics card - why?

[WhiteKnight]

After suspending a VM on my host machine, which is equipped with an NVIDIA Quadro K5500M graphics card, and trying to resume that VM after shutting down and restarting my host machine, VMware Workstation shows me an error telling me my host wouldn't support 3D features:

What's happening?

How can I tell VMware Workstation that my graphics card is in fact supporting 3D acceleration?

[continuum]

2 options:

- your VM was suspended - then it reads the latest vmx-settings from the vmss - file

- your VM tries to go back to the state of  a hot snapshot - then it reads latest vmx-settings from the vmsn - file

For unknown reasons your host at the moment is not able to provide the requested features.

This can happen when your host config has changed - you have updated Workstation - use a different account ... lots of possible reasons.

To resolve the situation discard the suspended state - either delete the vmss or the the vmsn.

Then the VM will do a fresh start and you should be able to change the configuration back to a working state.

[WhiteKnight · Accepted solution]

Hi Ulli,

after investigating a little bit further I noticed that DxDiag reported an "Error 43" which led me to checking Windows Device Manager which reported that there is a problem with my graphics card.

Sigh .... So, there is no issue with VMware Workstation, I guess.