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Audience for Direct3D Experimental Support
Workstation provides this feature for advanced customers who want to explore an in-progress implementation of 3-D acceleration.
Technical support for accelerated 3-D is not yet provided for Workstation. However, we encourage you to file a Support Request so we can evaluate problems you might experience with accelerated 3-D. Please review Helping VMware with Experimental Support before you file a support request.
Accelerated 3-D Limitations
Experimental support for Direct3D applies only to Windows 2000 and Windows XP guests, on hosts running Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Linux.
Experimental support has the following limitations:
•   Workstation accelerates DirectX 8 applications, and DirectX 9 applications that use only the subset of DirectX 8.
•   Support for 3-D applications is not optimized for performance.
•   OpenGL applications run in software emulation mode.
Not all aspects of 3-D acceleration are enabled. The following 3-D features are not accelerated:
•   Pixel and vertex shaders
•   Multiple vertex streams
•   Hardware bump-mapping, environment mapping
•   Projected textures
•   Textures with one, three, or four dimensions

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