VMWare SVGA Driver support?

Unity Engine
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We have a customer that has all of their machines using VMWare SVGA 3D graphics driver. Their machines don’t seem to be able to run the Unity Web Player at all, and I am suspecting that the issue is the driver. It isn’t clear if the driver only supports DirectX 8.1 or 9.0.
Anyone have any luck running the Unity Web Player on a machine with the SVGA 3D driver?

Also… I think that the SVGA II driver -does- support DirectX9 (?) anyone have any luck/experience with this driver?

Thanks!
-al

Update: the dxdiag tool solves this problem by reporting the version of DirectX supported (in the customer’s case DirectX 11) So… I’m off to find other reasons why the Web Player won’t work

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I’ve tested the webplayer under Vmware just recently, and didn’t have a problem - on this particular one: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/148147-Wizard-Girl-Character

You can configure the amount of RAM that the driver uses, may want to see how much memory they’ve allocated for it.

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Thanks! A quick look and…
Graphics Memory available: 252 MB
Dedicated Video Memory: 64 MB
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 188MB

Probably a bit on the low side. I did a quick search and didn’t find “minimum memory requirements” anywhere, but I’ll keep looking and update this post with what I find. In the mean time, if anyone has these at their fingertips… that would save me some searching. :slight_smile:

thanks!

Update: Just tested on an ancient WinXP, P4, Intel Extreme Graphics 2 (no vid card) with 96MB of memory and it works fine. (not the same… but it is about as minimal a config I can get without trying to set up a VMWare setup myself)

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Running into the same issue here, So far I haven’t gotten the normal web player to work, nor the standalone player with my app, but the flash apps on the Flash in a Flash contest appear to work fine. Have you had any luck in the meantime? Just starting to dig in to finding an answer here,

the front end of the unity crash log

GfxDevice: creating device client; threaded=0
d3d: no support for this device type (accelerated/ref)
D3D9 initialization failed, trying OpenGL
GfxDevice: creating device client; threaded=0
OpenGL:
    Version:  OpenGL 1.1 [1.1.0]
    Renderer: GDI Generic
    Vendor:   Microsoft Corporation
    VRAM:     35 MB (via DXGI)
    Extensions: GL_WIN_swap_hint GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_paletted_texture
    WGL extensions: none!
GL: disabling multisample because WGL_ARB_pixel_format not fully supported
desktop: 1920x1200 60Hz; virtual: 3840x1200 at 0,0
<I> Initializing (RawInput).
<RI> Input initialized.
Crash!!!

35mb of vram !! heh.

some basic system information, it appears to be a WySE thin client. (/facepalm)

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System Information
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System Manufacturer: VMware, Inc.
System Model: VMware Virtual Platform
DirectX Version: DirectX 11

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Display Devices
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Card name: VMware SVGA 3D (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM)
Manufacturer: VMware, Inc.
Chip type: VMware Virtual SVGA 3D Graphics Adapter
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Display Memory: 223 MB
Dedicated Memory: 35 MB
Shared Memory: 188 MB
Current Mode: 1920 x 1200 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor Name: Generic Non-PnP Monitor