Thanks to this new feature, you can now play games installed in a virtual machine.īut, remember that this will not work with all games. Note that Windows 7 supports DirectX 11 by default, as you can check through "dxdiag.exe".Īnd the game also works great with Windows 7 installed in the virtual machine.įor Windows 8 and 8.1 in virtual, you also have support for DirectX 11.Īnd game virtualization also works without problem. In our case, we have set all the settings of our game (released in 2008) to maximum and the game runs smoothly and the driving of the car is very smooth, despite the game being installed in a virtual machine. Then, adjust the display options of your game to take advantage of the maximum resolution supported by your screen and improve the graphics as desired. Then, automatically hide the top bar by clicking on the pin at the top left. To get the most out of your virtualized video game, click on the "Full Screen" icon of VMware Workstation.
Which was not possible with previous versions of VMware Workstation.
A full license runs 159.99, while upgrades from version 8 or newer. In NFS Undercover, what you see here is a cutscene. Support has been added for DirectX 11 (DX11) and OpenGL 4.1 in the guest operating system. We launch the game and as expected it works.
Insert the desired game DVD and install it. Games using a version of DirectX lower or equal to version 11 will therefore work without problems. Which is higher than what is supported by VMware Workstation.
In the virtual machine, if you run the DirectX Diagnostic Tool (dxdiag.exe) provided with all versions of Windows, you will see that Windows 10 supports DirectX 12. Since we have the original version of this game (on DVD), we have configured our VM's virtual CD/DVD drive to use our physical CD/DVD drive.
Knowing that our physical PC has 32 GB of RAM. In the "Memory" section, we have therefore assigned 16 GB of RAM to our virtual machine. However, to assign 8GB of video memory, VMware Workstation tells you to assign at least 16 GB of RAM. In this tutorial, we used a host PC with Windows 10 v2004 and a virtual machine with the same version of Windows 10.Īs stated by VMware Workstation, it's recommended to allocate 8 GB of video memory (graphics memory). When you create a virtual machine in VMware Workstation 16, you can assign 8 GB of video (graphics) memory to your virtual machine. NFS Undercover is one of the games that we own that allow you to easily test the fluidity of the game, since it's a racing game. Thanks to this big news, it's now possible to virtualize some games, such as : NFS Undercover.
In this case, revert to the previous version "16.1.2" of VMware Workstation Pro to continue using 3D acceleration for your virtual machines. Otherwise, the "No 3D support is available from the host" message will appear when starting each virtual machine where the "Accelerate 3D graphics" option is checked and the "3D acceleration will be disabled for VMs as DirectX 11.1 is not supported by the host" message will appear before upgrading from VMware Workstation 16.1.2 to 16.2.0. Warning : since version 16.2.0 of VMware Workstation Pro, 3D acceleration of virtual machines only works if the host supports DirectX 11.1.
After power-on, you can then upgrade VMware tools as you normally would. Existing VMs can be upgraded by adjusting the virtual hardware compatibility while the VM is powered off. To get started with DX11, VMware Tools needs to be upgraded, and the Virtual Hardware Compatibility version must be set to v18. This further isolates the Guest VM operations from the Host, significantly reducing the viability of privilege escalation to the host.