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Video drivers constantly crashing in VMware

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declensionsone

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Hi guys, hoping to get some good help here.

I am running 10 diablo3 clients using VMware, with 1 VM per client, all running on the lowest settings possible.

The problem I am running into is that every few hours my GPU driver will crash, and all of the VM screens will go black. I end up having to restart all the VM's because I can't do anything when the screen is black. (Just the VM screens are black)

  • I have tried 2 different GPU's, an nvidia GTX 460 and a radeon 5850 (both 1gb) and get the same problem.
  • I did not have this problem when I was running the bots on the Intel HD 4000 graphics (when I did not have a dedicated GPU). Out of paranoia I wanted to take stress off the CPU so I installed a dedicated GPU. The Intel GPU also doesn't run beyond 5+ bots very well, GPH suffers.
cpu at 50-80% load


I think it may be a ram issue, since the intel HD 4000 shares the system's ram. Does having multiple VM guests count as having multiple displays?
Will I be able to fix this issue if I upgrade to a 2gb video card?

I need to make this work using VMware (in otherwords, 1 ip per client) so please do not suggest that I use isboxer unless there is a way to do the same. Your help is greatly appreciated.

My system specs:

gigabyte z77
i7 3770k (not overclocked)
OCZ vertex 4 ssd (120gb)
32 GB ram 1333
xfx radeon 5850 1GB
rosewill 650w PSU
 
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I was running into the exact same issue as you. I got so frustrated with it that I finally setup my server with Windows 2008 R2 installed Hyper-V and enabled Remote-FX. This solution is much better than VMWare Workstation. My only complaint is that I cant start D3 while connected via Remote Desktop it only renders graphics in 16 bit color and D3 requires 32 bit. I installed Team-viewer and haven't looked back.
 
hmm.. im not familiar with that OS.. are you able to have a different mac address and IP per diablo 3 instance this way?


ok.. so i'm not running into the problem at 7 bots.. but at 10 my driver crashes within an hour.
 
the problem with vmware and the host gpu drivers are mostly power saving states on the gpu, make sure you setup your gpu to run at the same voltage and the same clocks all the time, and it should fix it
 
cacilhas said:
the problem with vmware and the host gpu drivers are mostly power saving states on the gpu, make sure you setup your gpu to run at the same voltage and the same clocks all the time, and it should fix it
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how do i check this?
 
you can use msi afterburner to force the voltage and replace the 2d profile for the card to force it to always use the 3d clocks. On nvidia cards you can also change the power management mode on nvidia control panel, Manage 3d Settings .. and set power management mode to Prefer maximum performance. Try that and see if it fixes it for you
 
I also had this issue and after much googling I found this to work for me and I suggest you try this first.

1. Go to Nvidia control panel and under 'set PhysX configuration' set the PhysX processor to your GPU.
2. Go to manage 3D settings and under power management mode, select 'prefer maximum performance'.

I'm not running 10 vms but I would get this problem with 4 clients running at a time
 
thx, i've already tried setting the phsyx to the gpu, havent tried the power management but that sounds like a good idea

Thing is i'm currently using the radeon 5850.. it doesn't seem to have a power management selection anywhere. Guess i'll switch back to the nvidia lol.

2. Go to manage 3D settings and under power management mode, select 'prefer maximum performance'.
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damnit.. this helped for a bit.. was running smoothly for a few hours till I tried to open up a browser and my graphics driver crashed..
 
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that might be related to flash gpu acceleration, disable that, and remember to force voltage on msi and save a profile for the card and force it for both 2d and 3d, so the frequency never changes.
 
shit.. it's still crashing... i've done everything suggested.. tried older video drivers too. Anyone running vmware able to run smoothly?
 
nope.. single.. i've tried two seperate cards in this system,, the radeon 5850 and gtx 460.. currently using the gtx 460
 
perhaps its hardware problem, video card overheat since u open 10bot and its already pushing 100% usage on video card.
or different set of memory cause instablity.
i used to have the video card driver crash problem, then i figure out my powersupply is not giving out enough power. later it burned out.
then i switched a better ps, the video driver crash ia gone
 
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momo1029 said:
perhaps its hardware problem, video card overheat since u open 10bot and its already pushing 100% usage on video card.
or different set of memory cause instablity.
i used to have the video card driver crash problem, then i figure out my powersupply is not giving out enough power. later it burned out.
then i switched a better ps, the video driver crash ia gone
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eh.. doubt it. every part is brand new, my video card temp is around 50-60c on load.
I'm using a 650w psu, doubt one card requires more than that.

what was your old psu, how many watts?
 
thermaltake 600w. guess im just unlucky.
i assume u dont have ati and nvidia both installed on the comp

i have couple vm open and my gtx460 cyclone is already pushing 55degree
u have a nice comp :(
 
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nope only one card installed. yea i dont think botting is very gpu intensive compared to benchmark testing.

I just ran Furmark for 15min, temp is around 70c with the fan at 100%, stable... score was 1830

yea haha my comp is overkill for most home users, built it using money i made in d3. I only use it for botting, so it would be a waste if I can't solve this issue =[


I feel like setting the power performance to max performance helped somewhat, but the issue is still occuring.
 
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if it keeps crashing, you can try windows 2008 r2 hyper-v + remotefx, it works just like vmware, maybe that wont crash your driver. You can try running linux on that machine to host vmware too.
 
the windows 2008 sounds like a good idea.. or maybe linux? Ive never used linux before though.

actually, first i think i'm gonna try out every single video driver that's been released... it'll be a pain in the ass to redo all my VM settings.


Can you make linked clones in windows hyper v?
 
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