With new VMs you may need to manually set the virtual hardware version to v18 before installing, so double check. I didnt do much benchmarking (really I just started a bot game, walked to the dire ramp near Rosh and checked my FPS with clshowfps 2) but at least on my system: Intel Core i5 2500k. Ive tested out all of the above as well as running them all on the 64 and 32 bit client. Prior to the release of Windows 95, application programmers had direct access to low-level hardware devices such as video, mouse, and keyboards. DirectX 9 vs DirectX 11 vs OpenGL on Reborn. The components of the DirectX API provides low-level access to the hardware running on a Windows based Operating System. After power-on, you can then upgrade VMware tools as you normally would. DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (API). Existing VMs can be upgraded by adjusting the virtual hardware compatibility while the VM is powered off. To get started with DX11, VMware Tools needs to be upgraded, and the Virtual Hardware Compatibility version must be set to v18. This further isolates the Guest VM operations from the Host, significantly reducing the viability of privilege escalation to the host.

We’ve dramatically enhanced virtual machine security by using a special non-root “sandbox” process for rendering 3d hardware assisted graphics.

Both Fusion and Workstation Tech Preview 20H2 support up to 32 processors and up to 128GB of RAM per virtual machine, as well as 4GB of shared graphics memory.

Hundreds of new games and applications can now run in Fusion and Workstation!.

Provides support for DirectX 11 (Direct3D v11) and OpenGL 4.1 graphics capabilities in the guest operating systems! Obviously DX11 is Windows guest only, but OpenGL 4.1 applies to Linux guests as well.

What‘s New with the Workstation 20H2 Tech Preview DirectX 11 Support The VMware Workstation and Fusion team is excited to announce the release of our 20H2 Technology Previewfeaturing the first drop of our DirectX 11 support!

Opengl 4.1 vs directx 11