: The driver relies on llvmpipe for OpenGL operations when hardware acceleration is not available. This software renderer, while functional, may not match the performance of native hardware acceleration.
A VMware Workstation user documented that after Windows 10 automatically installed version 20H2, the screen resolution in their virtual machine changed from 1920×1080 to 1024×768, with the maximum available resolution capped at 1152×864. The Windows update history showed a "VMware, Inc. - System - 9.8.16.0" driver update, which was identified as the VMCI driver. The solution involved installing the 8.17.2.14 driver, which was listed as an optional update.
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