ok, they used old tools with that
https://packages.vmware.com/tools/releases/

actually don't know what's wrong but investigating 😉
lot's of tools versions to try 😉

uninstalled 16
installed VMware-player-15.5.7-17171714.exe
3d is back 😀

Glad it works again. 🙂

I've searched the net for causes of the problem, but I didn't find much information.

https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Work … 16/td-p/2312136

Another reason could be a problem with mksSandbox.exe.
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Work … er/td-p/2898298

A while ago, I had experienced a similar issue with XP on VBox.
VBox: 3D acceleration for XP/Vista broken since v6.1
The culprit was that the old video device with XP 3D acceleration was nolonger available in new versions.
However, this likely is not the case with VMware, as well.

the last VMware Tools for Windows XP is version 10.0.12, build-4448491
https://packages.vmware.com/tools/releases/
It looks they simply dropping XP support in Vmware 16

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/81466

VMware Tools support for Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 (81466) Last Updated: 3/9/2021Categories: Troubleshoo […]
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VMware Tools support for Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 (81466)
Last Updated: 3/9/2021Categories: TroubleshootingTotal Views: 77749
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Purpose

VMware Tools 10.0.12 will be the last version to support legacy Guest Operating Systems (Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003).
Resolution

VMware Tools version 10.1.0 requires minimum Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008. VMware Tools version 10.0.12 is the last version to support legacy guest operating systems, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. Use image winPreVista.iso that was published with VMware Tools version 10.0.12. The ISO images are available for download from http://customerconnect.vmware.com.

Note: Log into customerconnect.vmware.com first before clicking the Download Link to ensure you are routed correctly.
VMware Tools 10.0.12 Download Link

get the last working version, save it for future generations 😀
https://customerconnect.vmware.com/downloads/ … ion_player/15_0
https://customerconnect.vmware.com/downloads/ … =800&rPId=55787

I use VMware-workstation-full-16.1.2-17966106 w/ VMware-tools-windows-10.0.12-4448496 for D3d and OGL for XP guests (Also 2000 with older additions). Haven't tried newer versions yet since every time I do I have to modify vmware to run macOS.

Awhile back one of the devs who works on Vmware posted here about updating soundcard support for DOS. Mabye we can track him down about XP support being broken.

😉
https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/

I have vmware player 16.2.2 build-19200509 installed, and d3d8/8.1 and 9 acceleration works under XP. I use the d3d8to9 wrapper to get better compatibility and performance with d3d8/8.1 games.

I haven't tried 16.2.3 yet, but it'd be really odd if they stopped supporting acceleration under XP in a, basically, bugfix release.

Saying that, d3d7 and directdraw-using d3d8 accelerated games either don't play, or are unaccelrated and hence extremely slow, and some also have visual issues.

VMware-player-16.1.2-17966106.exe - 3D works here
VMware-player-full-16.2.0-18760230.exe - 3D doesn't work here
VMware-player-full-16.2.2-19200509.exe - 3D doesn't work here

maybe the "full" broke it for me

I have that exact 16.2.2 full file.

All 3d is broken? Is d3d9 broken too? It works here.

Maybe it's OS or video processor related. I'm using windows 10 64-bit 21H2 (19044), and geforce 1060 with driver 511.23.

in win8.1 it doesn't work
but in win11 it works (but in 11 it is using hyper-v so it is a different program)
anyway good it still works

If you're running Windows 2000 as a guest operating system, you probably won't get 3D acceleration support if the virtualHW.version parameter is set greater than 9.

When I got Windows 2000 running, I had to set the parameter in line 3 of config.vmx file to read virtualHW.version = "9". I don't know if 3D acceleration support is going to be stripped in Windows XP/Vista guests in future releases of VMware Workstation Player and Pro.

Just verified that 3D Acceleration still works on 2000 and XP guests with Vmware Workstation v16.2.3 with Windows 11 on the host with a Nvidia 3080.
Also macOS support much easier to enable thanks to https://github.com/drdonk/golocker/releases

DosFreak wrote on 2022-07-08, 23:55:

Just verified that 3D Acceleration still works on 2000 and XP guests with Vmware Workstation v16.2.3 with Windows 11 on the host with a Nvidia 3080.
Also macOS support much easier to enable thanks to https://github.com/drdonk/golocker/releases

I was confused when I saw the title as I just ran a DX8 game before today

I was able to get 3D acceleration working in Windows XP using VMware-workstation-17.5.2-23775571.exe.tar with VMware-tools-winPreVista-10.0.12-4448491.iso (though the version reported by the installer is different for some reason, maybe it didn't install properly or there's just versioning inconsistency)

However, the next/latest version (VMware-workstation-17.6.0-24238078.exe.tar doesn't have a VMware-tools-winPreVista file in its package folder. And of course, there's the release notes:

Legacy VMTools ISOs are no longer included by default but are available for download. Bluetooth hub passthrough support has […]
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Legacy VMTools ISOs are no longer included by default but are available for download.
Bluetooth hub passthrough support has reached its end of life and has been removed from VMware Workstation.
Physical host parallel ports support has reached its end of life and has been removed from VMware Workstation for Windows.
Unity mode has reached its end of life and has been removed from VMware Workstation.
The Enhanced Keyboard driver has reached its end of life and has been removed from VMware Workstation for Windows.

Also, I forgot if I was ever able to get 256MB VRAM working, though I think I got it working in VirtualBox by setting:

1	Display
2		Video Memory: 128MB
3			(Recommended) Open your VM's .vbox file in a text editor and set
4				<Display VRAMSize="256" accelerate3D="true"/>
5		Graphics Controller: VBoxSVGA
6		Acceleration:
7			Enable 3D Acceleration

And on a side note, I got audio 3D acceleration working as well, using a Creative X-Fi 5.1 Surround USB sound card passthrough for hardware accelerated EAX and CMSS-3D audio (way easier than getting it to work in VirtualBox)

I can't seem to be able to edit my previous message, but just wanted to point out that we might need to add the following to the virtual machine's VMX file (tested in 17.5.2) so that 3D acceleration is usable and not greyed out in dxdiag:

1mks.gl.allowUnsupportedDrivers = "TRUE"

If that doesn't work (if using older VMWare?), you might need this instead:

1mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = "TRUE"

While I have been able to get 3D Acceleration working well in VMWare Workstation for XP; anything *not* 3D is running abysmally; scrolling up and down in web pages for instance takes about a second for the screen to refresh on each scroll, and the initial fade in on the login screen takes about 10 seconds to fully complete. Anyone know what is up with this and whether it can be fixed? On 9x and Vista+ it runs fine, it's just XP that has this issue. QEMU seems to run a lot better but lacks 3D Acceleration and a good GUI for Windows hosts.