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Yeah I'm slowly transitioning away from VMWare. Two years ago I got rid of ESXi in favor of Proxmox, now I will simply use WSLg or buy a separate working machine. This is not the first botched Workstation update. I remember an update, that accidentally removed option to enable Dark Theme. Bizzare. Not to mention constant graphical issues with 3D acceleration. I've had a graphical artifacts and glitches for several years now. Currently I'm enjoying daily Linux MInt Cinnamon crashes. I use Workstation for increased productivity. It starts to be a headache instead.

I can confirm this. I replicated it several times by holding right arrow in text field, when I tried to scroll the text. Several times in DBeaver, several times in IDEA. Started right after updating to 17.5.0. Linux Mint 21.2

I disabled in-game overlay long time ago hoping it would solve the issue, so that's not it, although it looks more and more like some sort of a bug in Geforce Experience, which could got resolved in latest version. I am running version 3.24.0.123.

I'm currently on newest driver 497.09 and after few hours of work, I noticed, that there is no rage over performance degradation and I don't actually experience the issue anymore. I wanted to post a driver version here, but I noticed, that GeForce Experience was closed. I started it again to see if that could be the culprit.

I'm still trying to pinpoint the issue and possibly resolve it by myself. Can you share more info, for example how much work do you do in your VM? I am interestingly also running latest Linux Mint as Guest OS. I am using the VM for heavy software development, and after a working session (8 - 10 hours) the VM is borderline unusable. GUI is unresponsible, le't say 5 - 10 fps, and interestingly opening files is extremely slow. GUI responsiveness is gradually worse the more I use the VM. Host is mostly unaffected by this, with the exception of sound. When I am listening something on the host and make guest "sweat" with opening files or fast scrolling, the sound starts to crack and skip. When I had this issue for the first time, I was actually buyning completely new PC. Clean Windows 10 host, different SSD (same vendor, Samsung), different GPU (same vendor, Nvidia), different CPU (different vendor, AMD). The VM acted the same, so for me the only common things are host OS version, Nvidia driver and guest OS. The issue was resolved for half a year and started again, either by Nvidia driver update or upgrade to Workstation 16, unfortunately I cannot pinpoint it more precisely. It's just my feeling, but it seems, that working with files inside Guest OS is responsible for the issue. I newly installed Ubuntu as a fresh VM just to see if Linux Mint is part of the problem, but after a while of basic usage, I see that the flicker appears again (as a first sign of a responsiveness failure).

Just to be sure, are you all experiencing huge performance degradation overtime for both guest and host? Mouse flicker is just a symptom for me, but the actuall issue lies for basically unusable PC, which needs to be restarted or signed out. I've tried to dig into the performance monitors, but nothing is off the charts.

So is it a regression bug in Nvidia drivers or a bug in Workstation, which VMWare still hasn't fixed? I personally do not want to downgrade the drivers as the host is both pc for work and gaming (and I play AAA titles). I mean, Workstation is the only software doing this, I refuse to believe, that it's Nvidia at fault - especially after the upgrade to Workstation 16.2, where they "forget" to include Dark Mode... At this point, where VM share is deprecated and possibly removed, I'm thinking about moving to WSL.

I'd like to chime in. I have same experience as others in this thread, dealing with this issue for a few months now. I had to restart host basically every day, and it severely hinders by ability to work efficiently. It is better for a few weeks now, but the core issue still persists. I am 100% sure it is not mouse issue, it's an issue between GPU drivers and VMWare. I checked every performance metrics I could possibly find, with no success. Here's my Reddit post, where I asked for help: https://www.reddit.com/r/vmware/comments/lnui6j/workstation_16_degrading_performace_in_both_host/ Today I didn't restart the PC after the work and went to playing new game I bought. I was dealing with weird graphical flickering, I spend 3 hours tweaking Unreal Engine configs and then it hit me - I haven't restarted the host. Voila, game is fine now. I have no idea, what Workstation is doing, maybe calling wrong API, maybe bug in drivers itself, but Workstation is the only program, which is causing severe performance degradations. I really don't care who's at fault, but this silence treatment on a post with thousands of views, where the rest gets fifty, that's a disgrace for paying customers. I am going to weep a bit for the few houndred dollars I spent on upgrade to Workstation Pro 16, but I am getting the hell out of here. And for good measure ditching vSphere too, tested Proxmox and it's great.