If you experience display issues, you can uninstall the driver from Device Manager and reinstall it via the VMware Tools installer .
In virtualized environments, a guest operating system cannot communicate directly with the host computer’s physical graphics card. Instead, the hypervisor creates an emulated, software-defined graphics adapter. For Windows-based virtual machines, this adapter relies heavily on the . vmware inc. - display - 8.17.2.14
Version 8.17.2.14 is often cited as a specific fix for stability issues introduced in other versions of VMware Tools. If you experience display issues, you can uninstall
While one workaround was to add guestInfo.svga.wddm.enableGDIHW=FALSE to the VMX file, a better solution was discovered: a new graphics driver available from Windows Update, version 8.17.2.14, resolved the issue. This highlighted an important point—VMware sometimes releases drivers ahead of VMware Tools updates, meaning it's worth checking for driver updates through Device Manager just as with physical computers. For Windows-based virtual machines