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VMWare Workstation 7 and Visual Studio 2010 rendering problem

I recently migrated from VPC to VMWare Workstation. So far all looks good only one problem I faced two days ago. When I run Visual Studio 2010 (Beta 2), the menu rendering was odd, text in code editor was disappearing and so on. After some searching I found, that it may be caused by 3D graphics acceleration turned on in VMWare Workstation. Surprisingly you have to turn it off – either in system, setting DisableHWAcceleration in registry (it’s for WPF) or unchecking the 3D acceleration in VM’s settings. After this adjustment (my choice was the VM level, as it may be improved later and it’s IMO easier to turn it on), all works great. I hope when the RTM of Visual Studio 2010 will be released, this will work as expected.

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  • Petr
    November 6th, 2009 at 08:36

    Měl jsi nainstalované VMWare tools (nebo se to jmenuje utilities?)? Ty výrazně zlepšují výkon grafiky.

  • cincura.net
    November 6th, 2009 at 09:05

    Jo mel.

  • Jarda Jirava
    November 6th, 2009 at 09:14

    It’s still in VMWare 7? Uff. This bug is on VMWare side for 2 years and I think that new (RTM) version of VS2010 doesn’t help. :(

  • cincura.net
    November 6th, 2009 at 09:16

    I don’t blame VS. I just hope ;) that either VMWare or VS will found some way to make it work properly.

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