I'm seeing the following AV when running VMware-workstation-full-17.6.4-24832109.exe on my Surface Studio Laptop:
CONTEXT: (.ecxr)
eax=64f0120c ebx=00000000 ecx=00802ca0 edx=00000000 esi=64f32da0 edi=64f429f0
eip=62de8657 esp=0490f4d8 ebp=0490f640 iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz na pe nc
cs=0023 ss=002b ds=002b es=002b fs=0053 gs=002b efl=00010206
MSI331D!VMCheckDirectX11_1+0x307:
62de8657 8b7008 mov esi,dword ptr [eax+8] ds:002b:64f01214=????????
Resetting default scope
EXCEPTION_RECORD: (.exr -1)
ExceptionAddress: 62de8657 (MSI331D!VMCheckDirectX11_1+0x00000307)
ExceptionCode: c0000005 (Access violation)
ExceptionFlags: 00000000
NumberParameters: 2
Parameter[0]: 00000000
Parameter[1]: 64f01214
Attempt to read from address 64f01214
STACK_TEXT:
WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong.
0490f640 73da00cf 00000006 73c5b800 007f3288 MSI331D!VMCheckDirectX11_1+0x307
0490f660 73d6477f 00000006 9e8db6a1 73d644e0 msi!CallCustomDllEntrypoint+0x2e
0490fbd8 76575d49 007f3288 76575d30 0490fc40 msi!CMsiCustomAction::CustomActionThread+0x29f
0490fbe8 7730d2fb 007f3288 7e53ab39 00000000 kernel32!BaseThreadInitThunk+0x19
0490fc40 7730d281 ffffffff 7735320e 00000000 ntdll!__RtlUserThreadStart+0x2b
0490fc50 00000000 73d644e0 007f3288 00000000 ntdll!_RtlUserThreadStart+0x1b
Crash dump attached. Problem is 100% repro. After the AV, the VMware Workstation Pro Setup app hangs seemingly forever.
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