OpenGL Error, activate 3D Graphics?

[Obscurité]

Hi,

I downloaded VMware Fusion and wanted to play a Game on Windows with my Macbook M1. When I wanted to start the Game there was a OpenGL 3.3 Error. I read a bit and thought that maybe activating the 3D Graphics could fix it, but I cant activate the setting to activate it. Its grayed out. I am not experienced at all and don't know what the problem is. I installed VMware Tools but nothing else. 

Greets and thanks for the help!

[ColoradoMarmot]

If you read the release notes, official guide, and unofficial guide you'll see that the vmware tools have only limited functionality right now.  Specifically, the graphics drivers do not include 3d acceleration.

We hope/expect to have updated tools sometime soon, best guess is that we'll get an update after WWDC, so figure late June or early July for full support.

[jbistis]

Is OpenGL supported now?

[Technogeezer]

The 2023 Tech Preview (which will become the next version of Fusion later this year) has support for DirectX 11 3d graphics. I don’t think it supports OpenGL. 

 

[VMware Community Member]

I am using M1, too. OpenGL extensions viewer shows I am using OpenGL 1.1.0. 

So it is still impossible to have OpenGL 3.3 today, right?

[ColoradoMarmot]

Correct, no openGL in Fusion.

[VMware Community Member]

Can we please get OpenGL in fusion for ARM.

[Technogeezer]

You may wish to post this request in the Fusion Features Request part of the forum.

https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Fusion-Feature-Requests/idb-p/fusion-ideas

It will help if you can describe more about why you want it - for example the applications that depend on it that won't run.

My opinion: It will also help your case if the application you're referencing is not a game, but rather some other app (like graphics editors or CAD/CAM tools). From past experiences, VMware seems to cater to the professional developer, and not gamers. 

 

[Erik Martinez Sanchez]

Thanks but that link you provided now goes to the general community page. Do you have an updated link for fusion feature requests? (I did not find Fusion among the Categories in the Ideas section.)

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[Technogeezer]

Broadcom did not carry that site over when they absorbed VMware's web site into the Broadcom infrastructure. They have not ,provided a replacement to date. 

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- Paul (technogeezer)
vExpert 2025
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[VMware Community Member]

Here is the future request:

https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Fusion-Feature-Requests/OpenGL-support-in-Fusion-13/idi-p/3009834

[Technogeezer]

 , the advice you posted  (which looks like it came from a AI engine) does not apply to the OP’s problem and will do nothing to fix it.   There is no OpenGL for Windows 11 ARM under Fusion, so there is no solution at the present time.