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  • 1.  Error In VMWare mks Sandbox to Play Videos on Windows XP.

    Posted Jul 02, 2023 06:56 AM

    Well, I'm having a small problem, which is directly linked to the Mks SandBox Process of vmware,
    it turns out that when Opening or Playing a Video with K Lite Codec Pack in Windows XP,
    the virtual machine becomes static, to the degree of not being able to do nothing and ends up Stop responding
    having to kill the VMX Process from the task manager.

    This Also Happens on Windows 7 vm, Windows Vista Vm.

    I know that the Problem is linked to VMware Sandbox since the process starts to Consume a lot of resources from my GPU.

    My Hardware:
    CPU:Core i7 3770
    RAM:16GB DDR3 1600MHz
    GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050Ti 4GB GDDR5
    HDD: 1TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache SATA3.
    S.O: Windows 10 Pro For Workstations 22H2.
    VMW: Workstation Pro 17.0.2



  • 2.  RE: Error In VMWare mks Sandbox to Play Videos on Windows XP.

    Posted Jul 03, 2023 07:09 PM

    Hello!

    Windows XP is pretty much unstable these days with VMware.

    I've tried to replicate this problem and this only happened on XP.

    I suggest that you get a new motherboard and CPU, since I have the same GPU, a slower hard drive (5600 RPM but with 128MB cache) and the same OS.

    Hope this helps!

     

     



  • 3.  RE: Error In VMWare mks Sandbox to Play Videos on Windows XP.

    Posted Jul 03, 2023 07:11 PM

    My WindowsXP VMs work perfectly fine... of course I don't try any graphic intensive stuff like playing videos.  And I'm sticking with Workstation 16.1.2 as the last version to not screw up all kinds of older features.



  • 4.  RE: Error In VMWare mks Sandbox to Play Videos on Windows XP.

    Posted Aug 02, 2023 07:18 AM

    I still have the same problem, it seems that it is a very serious issue, because I have returned to VMWare 16.2.5 and the problem persists.

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    Attachment(s)

    log
    mksSandbox.log   67 KB 1 version
    log
    vmware.log   279 KB 1 version


  • 5.  RE: Error In VMWare mks Sandbox to Play Videos on Windows XP.

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Aug 02, 2023 09:29 AM

     FabiMarshbb,

    I don't see any crash report in the attached log files. Can you reproduce the crash with WS 17.0.2 and attach vmware.log + mksSandbox.log?



  • 6.  RE: Error In VMWare mks Sandbox to Play Videos on Windows XP.

    Posted Aug 02, 2023 05:14 PM

    Yes I just realized that I leave 2 files at different times.

    Attachment(s)

    log
    vmware-0.log   371 KB 1 version
    log
    mksSandbox-0.log   100 KB 1 version


  • 7.  RE: Error In VMWare mks Sandbox to Play Videos on Windows XP.

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Aug 03, 2023 12:23 PM

    You need to upgrade to WS 17 and enable DX12Renderer.

    To enable DX12Renderer, please add the following lines to your VM's .vmx file.

    mks.enableDX11Renderer=FALSE

    mks.enableDX12Renderer=TRUE



  • 8.  RE: Error In VMWare mks Sandbox to Play Videos on Windows XP.

    Posted Aug 04, 2023 11:42 PM

    Thanks, I'll try and post the results again.



  • 9.  RE: Error In VMWare mks Sandbox to Play Videos on Windows XP.
    Best Answer

    Posted Mar 13, 2024 09:29 PM

    Well, that solution didn't really work for me. In the .vmx file I made the following modification

    mks.enable3d = "False"

    Now I can play videos without the Virtual Machine freezing.
    The bad thing is that the Crunchy Bug audio returned.