I have a Windows 98 Virtual Machine that I want to increase the amount of VRAM in it.
The problem is, whenever I edit the .vmx file it never notices the changes and will never let me go above 4MB VRAM. How do I do this?
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are the vmware tools installed? I believe that they include a more functional driver. – Frank Thomas Oct 01 '16 at 22:40
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Yeah, VMware tools for Win9x. – fdsr91 Oct 01 '16 at 22:52
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Can you provide what your attempting to use as your setting exactly? The name of the setting must be exact. – Ramhound Oct 01 '16 at 22:53
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I don't get exactly what you're trying to ask, but I'm trying to edit the .vmx file to set the amount of vram to 128mb. – fdsr91 Oct 01 '16 at 22:58
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I've tried increasing the resolution. but that only sets vram to 16mb. Not nearly enough. – fdsr91 Oct 01 '16 at 22:58
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I assume you're talking about the svga.vramSize = 134348800 setting documented here, right?
According to some other forums I've seen, you may have to set it to a value that is a multiple of 65536.
So, 128MB would be svga.vramSize = 134348800, and 1GB would be svga.vramSize = 1073741824.
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That didn't work. VMWare didn't edit the .vmx like it used to so that helps, but my VRAM is still stuck at 4MB. – fdsr91 Oct 02 '16 at 09:18
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I have an idea: Could you tell me what resolution multiplied by 4 will give me 134348800? – fdsr91 Oct 02 '16 at 10:07
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No idea. You do have 3D acceleration enabled, right? Have you tried uninstalling the video driver in the VM and reinstalling it? – David Woodward Oct 02 '16 at 15:22
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Maybe but would be beneficial to post the contents of your vmx file in your question. – David Woodward Oct 02 '16 at 15:24