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Video drivers constantly crashing in VMware

i use cleanmem on all my vm's, scanning each 5 minutes, never had problems with ram inside the guest tbh.
 
ahh on host never noticed it, dont use cleanmem on host, but never noticed any memory leak, i've used workstation 8 for a short time, most of it was using tech preview and now 9. Also, regarding gpu crash recovery on guest, its still the same, though the vm continues to run even if it has no image on vmware console. If you login through rdp and close the session , locking the windows session, the image comes back on vmware console too after that.
 
what's a good linux distro? Is there one that has it's own virtualization technology similar to hyper v?

thinking bout trying linux mint 13, ubuntu desktop ?? so godam confusing.
 
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i shouldn't run into any problems right? does ubuntu have it's own virtualization technology like hyper v?

actually.. it looks like ubuntu unity does not have a main menu? ewww .

gonna try Linux Mint Mate instead
 
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btw, regarding the whole gpu driver crash problem... i now know why i havent run into problems, my driver still crashes, my vm's recover from the crash though. Even if the screen is black, they are working fine, and diablo3 window gets closed, and restarted, the d3d device gets released, and the vm recovers the image. Just use a relogger that restarts your diablo every X minutes, and you'll be fine. DB_Batch works for that, and ofc .. there are other bots available that do that too.
 
problem is my d3 keeps constantly crashing too, these 2 problems combined is causing me to get only 250k gph when I should be getting 400k.. very frustrating.. trying linux now
 
uhm thats strange, probably not related to vmware... what kind of relogger you using ? maybe the vm is running out of ram causing d3 to close.
 
omg linux is so complicated i cant even figure out how to install vmware .. vmware kernel module updater failing


can someone tell me where to get a working linux 64bit with a working vmware workstation 64 bit ... vers 8.0.3 or higher
 
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i finally got workstation 8.0.3 to work. i have workstation 9.0 on my win 7 computer, but how do you install workstation 9 on linux? there are no workstation 9 linux torrents.

or are you supposed to use wine to run the workstation 9.0 exe file?
 
Download from my.vmware.com VMware Workstation July Preview or VMware Workstation 9 Trial for linux.
 
so i finished installing Linux Mint 13 and got the vmware workstation to work... but the cpu usage is higher than when I was using win 7 as my host OS... any ideas?

everything on lowest settings, all sound off.



also, i think the solution to this original topic is that you do in fact need a more powerful video graphics card when multi botting. I switched to linux and i don't get the black screens anymore but I still occasionally get some video freezing + error msg saying the openGL driver has crashed and that the VM guest has to restart. Nothing too major, much better than when I was running on win 7 though. Windows 7 TDR is the culprit behind the black screens, it occurs whenever your gpu hangs for a few seconds
 
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ok, so when I run 8 bots each inside a VM, my cpu usage is 80-100%, fps is smoother
when I run 9 bots, my cpu usage drops to 50-60% but fps is bad
GPU is gtx 460, 32 gb ram, i7-3770k overclocked to 4 ghz

any idea why this is happening? Why would cpu load decrease as # of bots increase?

edit: nvm now cpu usage is back to 60% after 30 min of running 8 bots.. weird
 
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declensionsone said:
so i finished installing Linux Mint 13 and got the vmware workstation to work... but the cpu usage is higher than when I was using win 7 as my host OS... any ideas?

everything on lowest settings, all sound off.



also, i think the solution to this original topic is that you do in fact need a more powerful video graphics card when multi botting. I switched to linux and i don't get the black screens anymore but I still occasionally get some video freezing + error msg saying the openGL driver has crashed and that the VM guest has to restart. Nothing too major, much better than when I was running on win 7 though. Windows 7 TDR is the culprit behind the black screens, it occurs whenever your gpu hangs for a few seconds
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Hey, just saw you were having a TDR issue with Windows 7. I would just like to share that I had the same issue a few weeks back, but it was with Windows Vista on my Laptop. I googled and found a fix which required me to edit the registry and increase the delay of the TDR. You can also turn off the TDR feature completely but that might not recover your system once a GPU crash occurs and you might have to restart your whole system. Let me know if you have tried this already or if this helped.
 
Something weird happens to me on this, I have 2 VM, they work one at time, never toghether, same OS, same settings, same software installed, the #1 works perfect, in the #2 i'm constantly getting those black screens.
 
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