Infrequent crashes with VMWare Workstation 10 and Win 8.1 x64

[thisisatest99]

Hello Buddy's

This thread might be silly but I ran out of options and my system keeps on crashing very infrequent.
So far i read every post here about VMWare issues and tried what was suggested.

My system is running on VMWare Workstation 10.0.1 build-1379776 and Windows 8.1 64bit.
So far i tried:
- Used the Buddy-Wizzard which downloads 3 files (vcredist*,vcredist2*,vcredist3.exe) and installed them
- I installed all end every Windows Update (~2GB in total) took me hours!
- I turned the screen resolution to to 1400 x 1050 and Hearthstone in Windowed mode (NOT Fullscreen) with a resolution of 1280 x 960.
- Game-language is set to english.
- Installed another Windows 8.1 version and did the steps above all over again
- Made exlusive rules in the Firewall for allowing Hearthbuddy.exe to go "out" and "in"
- No AV is installed
- using the latest HB version and did the recent update

My problem is, that sometimes the whole VM crashes and shuts down. That can happen after one game or after 10 or 20......

Any suggestions?

regards,
Storm

 

[pushedx]

I've noticed/heard of the same exact thing across a few of our bots, but it's unfortunately something that just tends to happen with VMs and games. Some people have found specific VMWare versions are way more stable than others, and the OS you use matters a lot. Random Windows updates or graphics driver changes also play a part, but I don't think you'll find much support on the issue in general. There's nothing in any of our bots that would explicitly crash a VM, much less your own PC, so it's just stress related and how they work.

i do think 8.1 would work better than 10, but maybe you could try an install of 7 to see if you notice improvements.

 

[thisisatest99]

Hey pushedx,
Thanks for the reply, you kinda helped me.
I tried three OS (Windwows 7,8 and 10) no difference in the behavior.
I upgraded to VMWare Workstation 12 and i will see if its getting any better.

Update one day later: NO CRASHes so far!
Imho it's the VMWare Tools that were causing problems.