CharlesGilley's Posts

And this is why I refuse to upgrade to 17 and debug more of VMware's issues.  Maybe VMunaware is a better name for them.  I rarely if ever see support comment on anything in CF.  Usually it's just a big group hug for sympathy.   I wonder if the free VMPlayer will sleep my VM?  Hmmm, have to try that.

Thanks Scott, I'll take a look at it. btw, I just read an article that your CEO wants to take all products to a subscription model.  That whooshing sound is all of the small developers leaving VMWare.... just a side note.

That's a lot of work to clearly point the finger at VMWare.  Will VMWare respond?  Unlikely. One day when the world gets back to normal, I'm going to VMWorld, and I'm going to make a loud stink in their booth.  The lack of customer support is pathetic.

Having suffered with various surprises over the years with VMWorkstation - yes, I paid for it, I expect nothing from vmware.  That said, this issue has been corrected by people fooling around and seeing if it gets better - case in point, the alleged NVidia drivers.  Some saw it works, I've marched through about 10 releases and had no joy.

Sadly, I am going to have to follow another contributor in this thread - migrate to VirtualBox.  It's free, and things cannot get any worse.  I'm going to make it this week's project as a test.  My take on VMware is that if you want something fixed, you have to pay for support.  I rarely see practical feedback from the development team in the forums.  Since VirtualBox is open source, there are probably millions of developers passionately supporting it,, because they don't have a life For me, I've used VMWorkstation Pro for years supporting older legacy systems.  From a hardware support perspective, it generally just works.  My typical development environment includes a USB 2.0 hub, a USB 3.0 hub and many usb to serial devices.  So it must work.  Should be an interesting test. best of luck

I actually have two machines. My main server (Ryzhen 9) and my laptop (Intel i7).  I mainly work on my laptop with the VMs.   I found that no manner of driver changes affected my mouse behavior - just turning off 3d acceleration helped. When it comes to VMware and updates,, follow the golden rule: "If it isn't broken, don't fix it." To be fair to VMware, apply that rule to Windows and Mac OS as well.

Going to reply to my own post with a possible solution.  Over in this thread:  https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-15-5-5-performance-hit/m-p/1863135  a suggestions were made to see if a similar but not quite the same issue with WS 16 could be resolved.  One idea was to turn off 3D hardware acceleration: Edit virtual machine settings -> Display -> 3D graphics -> uncheck accelerate 3D graphics. save and start the VM.  All of my machines are behaving now.  I suppose I lose some performance, but these are all development platforms, and I don't need accelerated 3d graphics.  Maybe this will help someone. My belief is that a couple of things are going on here, as I have seen this mouse stutter on a number of versions and I want to say mainly NVidia cards (can't prove that though).  I haven't bothered to do exhaustive testing, but I do know a few things: It does not seem to be specific to an NVidia driver release.  I went through 4 different driver builds from NVidia.  Nothing helped.  Includes rebooting host machine as well as VMs. It is not related to the guest OS.  The stutter happens across my Xp, Windows 7 and Windows 10 virtual machines. What I don't know is if later versions of WS 15.5.x turned on 3d graphics acceleration as a default or not.  It feels like some odd interaction between WS Pro and NVidia.

sadly this is VMware behavior for a very long time.  It's the community contributors that usually fix things or find work arounds.. HOWEVER, I seem to have resolved my mouse stutter problem.  After upgrading to 15.5.7, my mouse radically slowed when moving through menus.  I came across this discussion: https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-15-5-5-performance-hit/m-p/1863135 which had someone from VMware post some ideas.  One idea was to turn off 3D hardware acceleration: Edit virtual machine settings -> Display -> 3D graphics -> uncheck accelerate 3D graphics. save and start the VM.  All of my machines are behaving now.  I suppose I lose some performance, but these are all development platforms, and I don't need accelerated 3d graphics.  Maybe this will help.

Andy -   What NVidia card do you have?  I must respectfully disagree with your conclusion.  Using your post, I grabbed the version you suggested, one before it,, and two after it including the latest.  In my case - VMs running on my base laptop (i7 with 64GB of ram and a 1070) suffer from mouse stutter (so I am a little different from the OP who is using RDP).  The VMs are Xp, Windows 7 and Windows 10.  Oddly, the stutter is worse when mousing over menus and what not.   Changing the mouse input mode only makes matters worse. This issue comes and goes for me.  I had been running 15.5.5 happily, and I gave in to the nagging of 15.5.7.  As soon as I applied 15.5.7, this mouse issue started.  I've gone back to 15.5.6, and it's still stuttering.  Based on my notes, people using versions of 14.x have seen this as well. regards,

8 months later.. just installed 15.5.7 build-17171714 since it was nagging me.   Same terrible issue with mouse stutter in hosted operating systems:: Xp 7 and 10.  Interestingly, the mouse moves fine across the desktop background... it's not until you get into the menus where the lag starts.  Time to rollback my installation (again). So, VMWare, do your support people ever read the forums?  You're pestering me to upgrade to Pro 16, but I see no reason to bother.