I have a Win8 guest running on a Win7 host.
I copied a working Win7 guest and performed an upgrade to Win8. The upgrade went fine.
However, I noticed that the graphics were sluggish/jerky as compared to the original Win7 guest.
Both VM's are using the same host machine (same hardware).
Both VM's are using the same VM settings... memory = 1G, processors = 2, Display = Autodetect
The original Win7 guest has a graphics and gaming graphics performance of6.0
Win7 Guest SVGA Adapter info:
VMWare Virtual SVGA 3D...
Total Graphics 1312 MB
Dedicated Video Memory 1280MB
System Video Memory 0MB
Shared System Memory 32MB
Monitor:
Monitor: 60Hz
Colors: True Color (32bit)
The new Win8 guest has a graphics and gaming graphics performance of 2.0
Win8 Guest SVGA Adapter info:
VMWare Virtual SVGA 3D...
Total Graphics 255 MB
Dedicated Video Memory 0MB
System Video Memory 0MB
Shared System Memory 255MB
Monitor:
Monitor: 64Hz
Colors: <not shown>
You can see that the Win8 SVGA adapter seems to not know about the capabilities of the graphics card.
I have uninstalled VMWare Tools (rebooted) and reinstalled them (rebooted) but this did not fix the problem.
The host has a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 graphics card.
Are there any manual configuration options for me to try to convince the Win8 guest it has a better graphics card?
Any help would be appreciated.