Double-click on the.zip file you just found, and extract the contents of the.zip file to the vmware-tools folder. VMware Tools is an application that is installed into your guest VM to provide certain capabilities and features, such as a performance monitor and DirectX 11 support.ģ. In addition, we recommend that you update your version of VMware Tools.

I'm also going to see if VMware will let me update the VMware Tools manually, too. I don't know exactly how to check which version of DirectX is installed, but I'll try to get the latest DirectX files from my Windows disk and then re-run the VMware Tools installation. So I'm pretty sure this is a DirectX 11 issue and that it could be solved with one of the DirectX 11 patches from Anil2016 that I mentioned earlier. Finally, select Continue (because you are done installing windows). If you want to delete it, select Delete from the drop down menu. If you want to keep it, you can select Open from the drop down menu. You can also choose to delete or not to delete the existing VM you currently have. Select a location to store the Windows installation file.

Īfter that, you will be asked where to save the Windows ISO. So for the rest of this tutorial, I will be using a fresh Windows 8.1 VM with an AMD A10-6800K APU, a 2GB NVIDIA GTX 760 video card, and I will be installing the latest DirectX Driver and Tools from Microsoft's DirectX website. I recommend you install the latest recommended updates for Windows 8.1. After that, you will get a message saying you don't have recommended updates installed. Then it will continue with the upgrade DirectX 11 process, which is optional. The installer will reboot the VM, after which you will be prompted to log in to the Windows OS.

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