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I don't know if my copy of the crash files showed up. Here is a zip file of the mini dump files.  It is also 100% my host machine crashing.  I have since switched back to VMWare 17.0.2 and the problem has gone away and I can let my system sit idle. I had tested my VM my just starting it up and letting it sit at the windows desktop.  I walk away and let my laptop sit idle.  After my monitor has gone to sleep I come back and the my host has restarted fully.

I ended up removed TPM and the encryption.  Uninstalled 17.5 and installed 17.0.2.  Then redid the encryption and redid the TPM for my windows 11.  Now everything is working again. I had tried to uninstall 17.5 and reinstall it, but that did not fix it.  They have a problem with 17.5 and I am going to stick to 17.0.2 for now.

I had some time to play with this and so far a new Windows 10 VM doesn't have problems with just base windows. I am not pushing any graphics, etc.  But I was working on one of my existing Windows 7 VM and started to have problems there.  I disable Accelerated 3D graphics and now that VM is not having any problems.  This appears to be a problem with VMWare and the host when running Windows 10 2004.  I am currently running the newest graphics drivers from NVidia and Intel and newest updates to Windows 10 as of September 6.  Still the same problems.

I have 6 vCPU assigned and haven't had any problems with that.  If I disable the 3D accelerated graphics. I can run Prime95 to a blend test and it performs without failure until I stop it.  So I know I can stress the system and it handles it without problems.  But the moment I enable 3D graphics in the VM only for Windows10 2004.  Even if I just start the VM and let it sit at the desktop, it will freeze randomly.  Especially if I let the system sit idle.  Then as soon as the VM freezes.  I have to end task it.  Then I will reboot my host and I get the BSOD.  If the VM doesn't freeze and I shut down the VM and then close out of VMWare,  Everything seems fine.  I shut down the host and I get the BSOD.  I had no problems performing the upgrade.  I initially did the upgrade back in May, but I kept having instalbility problems with VMWare.  So I rolled the update back for the VM and the host.  Everything ran fine without problems.  I performed the update again in June/July.  This time my VM worked better, but then I started to notice these random freezes and the BSOD when the freeze would happen.  I figured I would wait it out and see if any updates come out, but nothing has.  I have checked Hyper-V and it should not be enabled at all.  I tried newer drivers, older drivers. But same problem.  So I am guessing some compatibility with VMWare and Windows10.  RIght now I am leaving 3D graphics off in this particular VM as I don't require it for my software. I am going to try to create a new Win10 2004 VM and see if that has any problems this weekend.

I have also checked drivers and tried different versions.  I never had a problem before upgrading to Win10 2004.  My VM's would work without problems.  I will try some of these.  My VMWare tools is up to date on all VM's. I am using the recommended 1GB of video memory as default by VMWare. My Host is Win10 2004 and the VM giving me trouble is also Win10 2004.

The Best advice is to set the sockets to always 1. Unless you are running a server with multiple processors sockets. From There i would adjust the Virtual Processors to use as much as you feel comfortable using.  I have 12 Logical on mine and have 6 virtual ones assigned to the VM so I can also do some tasks on the host in the background when switching back and forth.

I adjusted Windows to have High Performance for VMWare Workstation in the graphics settings.  I also adjusted the manage 3D settings in NVidia control panel to set the program VMWare.exe to high performance NVidia Processor.  But I still have the same problem when I enable Accelerate 3D Graphics in VMWare.  It froze almost as soon as I got into windows and had to Close VMware through task manager.  Then I restarted my host and got the BSOD again for VIDEO_DXGKRNL_FATAL_ERROR. This problem only started once I updated to Windows 10 2004. I never had this problem before updating.  Now it is past the two week mark to roll back the update of 2004.  But this appears to be a problem with VMWare and Windows 10 2004.  I am not using Hypervisor or it is not installed on Windows Features.  I reverted the settings and disabled Accelerate 3D Graphics and my Windows 10 VM is working without crashing on my host.  I also don't get any BSOD when shutting down the host. My Windows 7 VM machine doesn't appear to have any problems with Accelerated 3D Graphics turned on.