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Video drivers constantly crashing in VMware

ran 3dmark11 with no issues. This problem really pisses me off, apparently there are hundreds of people with this issue and no solution. I'm gonna figure this out once and for all.

it's really strange, i googled "Display driver has stopped responding" and I have come up with so many results of people having the same exact problem, seems to be a card compatability issue with windows 7 TDR or something, i've read like 10 different threads and none of them are resolved, and this is from more than a year ago..

after hours of searching, the only clue i've found that doesn't require getting new computer parts is to un-install "NVidia HD Audio driver." Could this be it? I am running audio through an hdmi cable to my monitors built in speakers, but of course i have all audio turned off in the D3 instances so it isn't playing any sound.

Gonna give this a try and get back to you guys.
 
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Hey, mb you should burn your nerves in that problem? I got such driver crushes at my 4VM's and you know what I do? Nothing ! Just use buddystats plugin & monitor my gph & bots through it with blank screen.
Bots are bots, so the only thing we need to know about them that they make this GPH. When we need pass gold, just Alt-F4, Alt-Tab, Alt-F4, Alt-Tab, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Ins and.....here your screen on VM. You just restart D3, pass gold and goon
 
as far as i remember , yes you can do it on hyper-v, the last time i tried it though it had a limitation on the vgpu driver, it would only render 1 window. Lets say you want to run 2 accounts under the same vm, you cant, at least on windows 2008 r2 with windows 7 guest.
 
with hyper-v you can change the mac addresses... it actually automatically gives different mac addresses to each VM. Hyper-V doesnt have linked clones but does allow you to have dynamically inflated disks so that it only uses the space that it needs. The best way to run Hyper-V is to create a template and then copy the template every time you want to setup a new VM. With RemoteFX its going to rely on your video card to process graphics so that could end up being where you will find the bottlenecks. A lot of you are using SSD drives but you will most likely need to purchase at least 1 real HDD for the VMs because you cant make linked clones with Hyper-V. Hyper-V is wonderful. I host a handful of Virtual Private Servers on hyper-v and about 50 virtual desktops. You can even make the virtual desktops start on demand and have Hyper-V shut them down when your finished to keep your RAM/Processor power free. So for instance say your at work and you want to start bot a but its turned off. You can remote into the bot and Hyper-V Will start the VM and you can start the bot and let it run. Then You can remote into another bot and shut it down. Hyper-V will shut down the VM until it gets a request to remote back into it then it will turn it on for you. This is great for people who dont want to bot on the same accounts 24/7 but are not home enough to switch their bots. Basically I can use my ipad or smartphone to remote into one of VMs and Hyper-V will turn it on for me when it gets the request to remote into it.


Very cool stuff.
 
no, i'm not just gonna ignore the problem because I have another issue with low GPH that I can't fix until I fix this problem first, i'm not gonna fuckin sit here with black screens and low gph. And constant driver crashes /bsod may eventually kill my video card or damage my computer parts. bots are just bots but my computer is an expensive machine.



Anyway, i dont think the issue is resolved, my comp must have bsod last night or something cus I woke up to a dos screen with the message "cannot boot from drive"

I may be getting closer to the issue, it seems to be related to win 7 TDR function, gonna try this after diablo 3 servers are live again.

possible solution in shintai's post:
AnandTech Forums

The problem isnt with just diablo 3 but look at this thread, so many others with the same issue, and no real solution:

"Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" - Forums - Diablo III
 
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have you checked the event logs to find out what errors its spiting out before the crash happens?
 
it may be a good idea to upgrade directly to windows server 2012 and hyper-v 3.0, they have upgraded remotefx too and vgpu driver from what i've read. Havent tried it though.. its supposed to even support directx11 on windows 8 guests, so im guessing they took some time around remotefx. Read that its possible to manage them through console now too, instead of only rdp.
 
Just tried Hyper-V.
GPU-Load increased right the way it should be as on real desktop. D3 now utilizes GPU as it should instead of VMware.
Bad thing is that when you connect via RDP you session locks of disconnect, but I sorted it out.
 
Tried 2008 or 2012 shaliuno ? Noticed any difference in cpu usage compared to vmware ?
 
oh , guess that explains the lack of reviews on remotefx on the web, oh well, btw, when you have the time, try to open 2 diablo windows, and see if it renders both ok.
 
Which version you have installed? core or full ?
"RemoteFX is available in the following editions of Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1:

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard with SP1
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise with SP1
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter with SP1"

shaliuno said:
Tried 2008 but still having some issues, but they are minor.
2012 wont work until they release i (trial doesnt allow remotefx along with other stuff)

I'll report later on hows its going, need to sleep 3.a.m. already)
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bl4ck said:
Which version you have installed? core or full ?
"RemoteFX is available in the following editions of Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1:

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard with SP1
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise with SP1
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter with SP1"
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It depends how much physical ram you have on the host. Standard only supports 32gb of physical ram while enterprise and datacenter support up to 2tb.

Standard and Enterprise are on an per virtual machine license while datacenter is 'unlimited'. I am not sure it this applies to you :).

As somebody that admins a 500+ virtual machine environment with 200 odd VDI's on Hyper-V/RemoteFX I recommend just running VMware workstation for a home user wanting to run bots as it's somewhat easier to throw on and get working in a simple environment.

As per the original issues with the display adapter crashing inside the virtual machine that can happen on any host. the factors that cause it are.

- Host Display Adapter. You may need to play with different drivers and sometimes is just comes down to a video card that doesn't like it.
- Host power settings. You bios may have some settings along with software settings in the host. Make sure everything is performance and not power saving.
- Virtual Machine power settings. As above.
- Disk I/O. I have seen high disk queue lengths cause this. Cannot explain why.

I'll stop myself before I rabbit on about this topic but my advice is to try to keep it as simple as possible and if you can afford it run your VM's from SSD :).
 
i get crazy fps lag when i try to use demonbuddy with VMware, but not with hellbuddy..

Perhaps vmware isn't optimized for gaming?
 
declensionsone said:
i get crazy fps lag when i try to use demonbuddy with VMware, but not with hellbuddy..

Perhaps vmware isn't optimized for gaming?
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No virtual hosting is optimized for gaming. Turn all settings and res down. Demonbuddy is indeed somewhat intensive and I saw the same decline in performance as you have,
 
yeah, hellbuddy was a lot smoother, try to give at least two cores on the guest for demonbuddy to run.
 
oh yea that's why. i changed back to one core while i was using hellbuddy. currently using DB while waiting for HB to update
 
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