Installation

If you have an add-in discrete GPU and an embedded GPU, the operating system might default to the
embedded GPU. To x this problem, you can disable or remove the device in Device Manager. If the
problem persists, you can install the WDDM graphics driver for the embedded GPU, or disable the
embedded GPU in the system BIOS. Refer to your system documentation on how disable the embedded
GPU.
C Disabling the embedded GPU might cause future loss of access to functionality such as
console access to BIOS setup or NT Boot Loader.
For information about which client devices support specic VMware Blast Extreme features, go to
hps://www.vmware.com/support/viewclients/doc/viewclients_pubs.html.
Recommended Guest Operating System Settings
1 GB of RAM or more and a dual CPU is recommended for playing in high-denition, full screen mode, or
720p or higher formaed video. To use Virtual Dedicated Graphics Acceleration for graphics-intensive
applications such as CAD applications, 4 GB of RAM is required.
Video Quality Requirements
480p-formatted video
You can play video at 480p or lower at native resolutions when the remote
desktop has a single virtual CPU. If you want to play the video in high-
denition Flash or in full screen mode, the desktop requires a dual virtual
CPU. Even with a dual virtual CPU desktop, as low as 360p-formaed video
played in full screen mode can lag behind audio, particularly on Windows
clients.
720p-formatted video
You can play video at 720p at native resolutions if the remote desktop has a
dual virtual CPU. Performance might be aected if you play videos at 720p
in high denition or in full screen mode.
1080p-formatted video
If the remote desktop has a dual virtual CPU, you can play 1080p formaed
video, although the media player might need to be adjusted to a smaller
window size.
3D rendering
You can congure remote desktops to use software- or hardware-accelerated
graphics. The software-accelerated graphics feature enables you to run
DirectX 9 and OpenGL 2.1 applications without requiring a physical graphics
processing unit (GPU). The hardware-accelerated graphics features enable
virtual machines to either share the physical GPUs (graphical processing
unit) on a vSphere host or dedicate a physical GPU to a single virtual
desktop.
For 3D applications, up to two monitors are supported, and the maximum
screen resolution is 1920 x 1200. The guest operating system on the remote
desktops must be Windows 7 or later.
Hardware Requirements for Client Systems
For information about processor and memory requirements, see the "Using VMware Horizon Client"
document for the specic type of desktop or mobile client device. Go to
hps://www.vmware.com/support/viewclients/doc/viewclients_pubs.html.
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