Unfortunately, I wouldn't expect a fix for this from the VMware-side any time soon. 

We are correctly reporting how our virtual graphics card is representing it's memory layout, it just happens to be unusual for high-end graphics cards to not have much Dedicated memory, and so this causes application compatibility issues.  We have to dig into them individually and usually work with the 3rd-party software vendor to resolve them, so we typically can't resolve them quickly.

We're aware of the Photoshop issue, and we've seen issues with Chrome that tend to come and go as they release new versions. If there are other applications that are running into graphics memory problems please let us know the specific applications and we'll see what we can do.

Otherwise the best advice I can offer in general would be to try and contact the other software vendor and see if they have a work-around or a fix they can offer to force their accelerated path on.