Troubleshooting Game Issues on Virtual Machine

[Astalavista]

TL;DR Summary

Game on VMware workstation player 16.2 won't work.

Game on VM won't work. It did work before i re-created machine, but I don't remember what did i do to get game working. I'm using windows 10 64 bit on machine and host is the same. When i launch the game it's just black screen and music, when I tried to play in window mode it showed the window with it's contents, but i couldn't click on anything. I tried uninstalling the SVGA 3D graphics and at the beginning it worked, poorly but it did and I was able to login but game crashed. I tried installing all-kinds of drivers and other programs but nothing seems to work.

game - Broken Ranks

I gave it 5 gb ram and 4 core's of cpu which is more than recommended.

I have gtx 1050ti and intel core i5 7400

 

[anorlunda]

Considering the difficulty of making it work, might it be better and less expensive to give the game its own PC hardware?

 

[Astalavista]

You mean gpu passthrough?

 

[robphy]

Did you save the earlier image?

If the goal of the VM is only to play the game, then why mess with what is working?

 

[sysprog]

You mean gpu passthrough?

GPU passthrough refers to allowing a VM to have direct access to the GPU as if it were native to the VM, instead of getting only the mediated access offered by the host OS $-$ I think that @anorlunda was referring to a non-VM implementation, i.e. running the game on its own real PC machine.

 

[Astalavista]

I just need the game on virtual machine because I have a macro which I want to work on other desktop while I will be doing something else. It worked before, but I god damn can't remember what did I do.

 

[pbuk]

So you want to farm or multi-box a MMORPG. I wonder: why have you asked this on a forum dedicated to learning and discussing Physics and other mainstream science?

 

[Astalavista]

Because i want to learn how to run a game/program on virtual machine.

 

[anorlunda]

It did work before i re-created machine, but I don't remember what did i do to get game working.

Because i want to learn how to run a game/program on virtual machine.

It sounds like you already learned, but forgot what you learned.

 

[Astalavista]

The point is, i did not even know what did I do. I mean, even when game worked I didn't know what did I do. I just installed random stuff and just worked...