Windows XP Pro: blank screen after installing VMWare Tools

[Glenn Petrie]

I have installed Windows XP Pro (32-bit) on VMWare Workstation v17 Linux, with the Enable 3D Acceleration in my VM settings and hardware acceleration in the Global settings. When the OS is installed, the display works fine until I installed VMWare Tools. Now I get a black screen. What I did was shut down the VM and edited the VMX file to include "mks.forceDiscreteGPU = "TRUE", and then restarted the VM. I still have a black screen after I do this.

I get the same result when I try to enable the SPICE driver in QEMU v8.2.8.

I also turned on IOMMU in my BIOS setting.

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Distro: Fedora Linux 40 (Kernel 6.12.11)

Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

Graphics driver: 565.77

Logic Board: ASUS Prime B450

[a_p_]

Only a guess. Please see whether changing the "Accelerate 3D graphics" in the VM's Display settings helps.

André

[Glenn Petrie]

Disabling 3D Acceleration makes the display work for me, but things look washed out. Certain programs that rely on Direct3D also don't function correctly, such as VICE and WinUAE.