VMware Fusion will gain hardware acceleration for 3D graphics

2023-07-14 14:43:56

A VMware released today the version Tech Preview 2023 do Fusion, their popular virtualization software for Macs. According to the company, it now supports hardware acceleration for 3D graphics, allowing users to run games with DirectX 11 support much more “fidelity and speed” in Windows 11.

Still according to the company, this novelty also covers the emulation of games in both 32 and 64 bits, which greatly increases the catalog of titles available for the user to enjoy. The interface, in turn, is much more responsive and manages to change the window resolution as the user resizes it almost instantly, thanks to the feature Autofit.

In addition, this Tech Preview also supports most of the VMware tools that ran on Macs equipped with Intel’s chips. This includes the shared clipboard between macOS and Windows 11 and the feature drag-and-dropwhich is also faster, making the entire workflow Softer.

Another aspect of Fusion that has seen improvements is encryption, which now uses the scheme XTS instead of the old CBC. According to VMware, the APIApplication programming interfaceor application programming interface.”>1 REST (vmrest) has been updated to support the new encryption type, while the tools Command-Line Interface (vmrun) have been modified to support virtual machines with so-called Virtual Trusted Platform Modules (vTPMs).

The news announcement, it is worth noting, makes it clear that this Tech Preview is just a sneak peek what users can expect from Fusion in the future. VMware has also promised to implement a number of improvements and features for the virtualization software in the coming months and asked users who install this version to report any bugs they encounter.

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VMware Fusion Tech Preview 2023 is free and can be installed on this page. This news comes almost a year after the company implemented Windows 11 support in Fusion on Macs.

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