VMware Workstation 5.5

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Audience for Direct3D Experimental Support

Workstation provides this feature for advanced customers who want to explore an in-progress implementation of 3-D acceleration.

Technical support for accelerated 3-D is not yet provided for Workstation. However, we encourage you to file a Support Request so we can evaluate problems you might experience with accelerated 3-D. Please review Helping VMware with Experimental Support before you file a support request.

Accelerated 3-D Limitations

Experimental support for Direct3D applies only to Windows 2000 and Windows XP guests, on hosts running Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Linux.

Experimental support has the following limitations:

Workstation accelerates DirectX 8 applications, and DirectX 9 applications that use only the subset of DirectX 8.

Support for 3-D applications is not optimized for performance.

OpenGL applications run in software emulation mode.

Not all aspects of 3-D acceleration are enabled. The following 3-D features are not accelerated:

Pixel and vertex shaders

Multiple vertex streams

Hardware bump-mapping, environment mapping

Projected textures

Textures with one, three, or four dimensions

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