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Will 3D acceleration help if I only use plain 2D Windows?

Posted: 12. May 2020, 13:57
by Laegteskov
I'm trying to debug after I got a new 3D card. My virtual machines crashes often after the hardware installation and I didn't have this problem before.

So if I don't use 3D-acceleration will the screen updating or performance running the vm somehow decrease?

I'm using it for development so I don't need the 3D acceleration.

Thanks!

Lasse

Re: Will 3D acceleration help if I only use plain 2D Windows?

Posted: 12. May 2020, 18:07
by scottgus1
I could not really say. Only way to know for certain is to try it.

FWIW the production guests I have had (not Windows 10, only XP and 7) never suffered from slow desktop when running non-3D. I never tried watching video in the guests though, I haven't had reason to need video in a guest.