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Graphics Acceleration In Horizon View Virtual Desktops

A quick heads-up about an update to a my My First Published Technical White Paper.

The paper talks about the following topics:

  • Why 3D Matters for VMware Horizon View
  • Understanding the Differences Between Soft 3D/SVGA, vDGA and vSGA
  • Prerequisites
  • Application Requirements and Use Cases
  • vSGA Installation
  • vDGA Installation (Tech Preview)
  • VMware Horizon View Pool Configuration for vSGA
  • Performance Tuning Tips
  • Resource Monitoring
  • Troubleshooting

Hopefully it should cover everything you need to enable your Horizon View desktops for 3D rendering.

The Paper can be downloaded here: Graphics Acceleration In View Virtual Desktops

Simon Long

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  • Hi Simon, great work on the whitepaper. We have tested a few options in a proof of concept for our desinging department. We cannot get rid of some cursor lagging in Adobe Photoshop. This is keeping us from moving those workstations to Vmware View Enviroment. The users are not happy with the 3D performance. We tested with a Nvidia GRID K1 and APEX card.

    When I'm moving the mousse cursor in Photoshop its working fine, but what I actually draws follows it in 0,5 s delay. This gets wors if their is low bandwidth available of course.

    An example of what I mean:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoxSvl5YDZU

    We are having a discussion about this issue on spiceworks forums:
    http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/521885-vmware-view-5-3-adobe-photoshop-cc-cursor-issue

    No solutions seems to work sofar. I am attending Vmworld in Barcelona and hope to get some new insights on this issue.

    Any any thoughts an this issue??

    • Ho Jeroen, I've not come across this before. Have you tried asking in the VMware Communities? I know some of the Product PM's read the forums, so they might be able to comment.

      • Unfortunately there is no support on Proof of Concepts from Vmware. I tried to make a support call but they closed it. I will make a topic in the forums about this issue. Thanks for the tip.

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