Black Screen when using SVGA 3D Driver

[Joshua Fi]

Hi I have a 2015 retina iMac intel running Ventura (via open core legacy patcher). I have a VM Fusion 13.6.3 running windows 10.

My issue is if Accelerated 3D Graphics is selected and windows driver is SVGA 3D I get a black screen before the windows log in screen.

If it disable 3D Accel i don't get the black screen but the VM is very laggy. When I change the graphics driver to Windows Generic I can then turn on 3D accel and its all good but I don't get the nice scaling that the VMware driver provides.

Before I updated my operating system (Monterey) it was perfect with 3d Accel activated.

Have reinstalled VM Tools many times.

Any suggestions?

[Technogeezer]

I'd have a conversation with the OCLP developers. Broadcom doesn't consider that configuration as tested or supported, so the best you are going to get is the experience of other OCLP users  

All bets are off if you're using OCLP with Fusion. OCLP  tends to hack old drivers into a newer macOS to get it to run on older hardware. Fusion uses the Metal features present on supported Mac versions to render its graphics. Older drivers hacked into newer macOS may not support all the newer Metal features present on Apple supported macOS versions running on Apple supported Mac hardware.

The best way to get that configuration to work is to drop back to the tested and documented compatible configuration: macOS Monterey and Fusion 13.5.2  

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- Paul (technogeezer)
vExpert 2025
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