I also have this problem with 16.2.0 and 16.2.1.  I can verify that turning off 3d acceleration works around the problem.  But I don't think Vulkan is directly responsible for the issue.  I have an Nvidia Pascal generation video card (1070ti) which is not supported by VMware's Vulkan Translation, but instead, uses the old OpenGL code path.

I've re-installed 16.1.x for now and hope they get around to fixing this one for the next version.