Display driver crashing causing virtual machines to mess up.

[Simonzi]

Ok, I think I found a fix. The problem went away completely when I increased Vram in the .vmx config file, change svga.vramSize to 268435456 (256mb as opposed to 128mb)

I'm going to try this later when I get home. Thanks for the tip.

[MonsterMMORPG]

i was also having this problem but randomly occuring

i will try suggestions here

[Simonzi]

So, I've done a few things.

- Increased vram from 128mb to 256
- Switched from 5x VMs at 1920x1080 to 5x VMs at 800x600
- Switched from VMware Player to VMware Workstation
- Disabled Eyefinity

And, I'm probably going to curse myself here, but I haven't had a crash in about a day and a half. I don't know what one of those would have done it, but right now it seems stable enough. I'm going to re-enable my Eyefinity profile, and hopefully it will stay just as stable.

[Archmybow]

Had same problem, changed to sandboxiee and fixed it, I Thinkl

[psychoangler]

swapped to nvidea and set it to full pwer. no problems until now with 8vms @ 1280@720. had a crash when it was not at full power. will observe it, but at least nvidea driver gives me no bluje screen and just recovers the driver which actually doesnt interrup my bots a lot they just restart after 2 minutes

whats all that sandboxie stuff about? you cant run multiple bots there unless you use memory editing for letting them doing stuff as they dont have their own mouse etc???

or am i missing something with sandboxie

[lecroche]

My GTX 570 NVidea crash barely 4x VM d3 800x600, high degree 80 average 65% usage

[antrox]

Workstation 8 VmWare is working perfectly for me. i had some graphical issues but they are gone after a restart .

[ladam]

I got a few machines and graphic cards that I use for testing. I tried all sort of different drivers and vmware workstation. Also different version of Windows OS. For me it seems to be the graphic cards. One of the graphic cards seems to be poorly supported by VM, it would work fine for a bit and crashes out. Then I use a different card with the same version of OS and vm workstation. Then it won't crash at all.

If possible, try a different graphic card.

[antrox]

the graphic card is emulated by VM using the CPU dude. Nvidia GPUs hasnt got a virtualization mode! everything CPU related in this case.

[Sidelancer]

I have a similar situation except the crash happens when I try to run any game outside of VMs. I have 2 vms on with diablo 3 but if I run any modern game (like starcraft 2) outside the vms, it causes a crash of my GTX 460 card. It's really weird cause I have 16gb ram, decent processor (phenom 1090T) and I ran my GPU through many stress tests to check for hardware errors. Nothing.

If I open MSI afterburner then I can see that my GPU usage is at high 80s -90s when I have 2 VMs up and starcraft 2 (in game) with temperature of about 66 celcius. So am I just pushing the card to the limit?