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VM flickering on macOS Ventura with Fusion Pro 13

efengle — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:23:26 GMT

I am experiencing VM display flickering when in full screen mode for any of my VMs (Windows 11 and various Linux distros). This began when I upgraded the host iMac Pro to macOS Ventura with Fusion 12.2.4 and has continued with Fusion 13. Curious to see if anyone else is experiencing this?

My "daily driver" VM is Fedora 36. I run it in full screen mode at 2560x1440 with scaling set to 100% and without option "Use full resolution for Retina display".

Re: VM flickering on macOS Ventura with Fusion Pro 13

Rollin899 — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 15:22:14 GMT

I have the same issue. I'm running Ventura and Pro 13 on a 16" Intel i9 MBP. If I take it out of full screen the flickering stops. I tried messing with power and sleep settings but that hasn't helped. The VM it's worse on is Windows 11.

Re: VM flickering on macOS Ventura with Fusion Pro 13

Rollin899 — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 15:32:21 GMT

I found this thread Fusion-12-w-Big-Sur-Display-Flicker and the solution was to change the Fullscreen Mini Bar to Always Show. View->Full Screen Minibar->Always Show. That seems to work.

Re: VM flickering on macOS Ventura with Fusion Pro 13

sunnyuff — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 13:53:51 GMT

Fullscreen Mini Bar to Always Show, works on ventura and win10

Re: VM flickering on macOS Ventura with Fusion Pro 13

Storfoten — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 05:17:14 GMT

I have a MBP 13" running Ventura 13.6 and Fusion 13.0.2. always show the fusion fullscreen minibar work for me as well.

Re: VM flickering on macOS Ventura with Fusion Pro 13

efengle — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:45:13 GMT

I finally tried the mini bar and that does work.

Re: VM flickering on macOS Ventura with Fusion Pro 13

efengle — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:46:42 GMT

@Mikero - Hopefully this is something that can be raised to product developers?

Re: VM flickering on macOS Ventura with Fusion Pro 13

studiozero — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:10:25 GMT

I had a similar problem with flickering and screen going blank in Windows 11 ARM, on MacOS with M1 Pro silicon. Fusion Pro 13 and 13.5. The minibar trick mentioned by others didn't help.

Not sure if this is the same problem people have been complaining about since 2019, but...

The cure for me was going to Settings -> Display -> Shared graphics memory and selecting 8192 MB (Recommended). (As advised by The Unofficial Fusion 13 for Apple Silicon Companion Guide.

Re: VM flickering on macOS Ventura with Fusion Pro 13

efengle — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:14:12 GMT

This issue seems to have been fixed. I am now on macOS Sonoma (Intel) and VMware Fusion 13.5 and no longer have this happening in any VM (Fedora, Rocky, Ubuntu, Windows 11).