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Jun-17-10 13:35:53

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Windows Server 2008 R2 - Choppy Mouse / Console Video Performance

I was playing around with a Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 VM yesterday and getting frustrated with the video performance from the console.  I had vmtools installed correctly but found the mouse was very difficult to use due to the poor display performance of the console.

After doing some investigation, I found that even though vmtools was installed correctly, the VM was still using the standard SVGA driver.  After contacting VMware support, I found there is a "feature" in the current version of vmtools that doesn't install the video driver correctly. 

For anyone else who has this problem:


  1. Install VMtools as usual on the VM

  2. Update the Video Device Driver and reboot, viola!



Note: the video driver will be located under C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Driver

Best of luck!

-Tom


Edited By:  thirt
Jun-17-10 13:37:21

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