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AMD Radeon settings window transparent in a VM?

Duncan Epping · Jan 6, 2020 ·

I have been playing with VR technology for the past month. The last couple of weeks my focus has been to install/configure a VM which streams the VR app over wifi to a headset. I ran into a problem with ALVR last week as documented here, but I also ran into an issue with the AMD Radeon software when I wanted to use the AMD tools to stream a VR app. When you install the AMD Radeon software within a VM and want to configure the (passthrough) graphics card or ReLive VR the Radeon configuration window shows up transparent, it looks as below. Which means you can’t configure it, you can’t enable things like ReLive VR.

The only way to get the window to show up normal is to remove the VMware SVGA device using Device Manager. Simply completely remove it and restart the VM and the problem is solved. If you have svga.present set to false you will need to click “view hidden devices” in Device Manager first before you can remove the installed software/driver by the way. When rebooted it will look normal again and it will allow you to enable and configure ReLive VR, or any other options you need to configure of course.

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Various alvr, Lessons Learned, streaming, take 3, take 3 learnings, virtual reality, vr, vxr

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of the CTO in the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) at VMware. Besides writing on Yellow-Bricks, Duncan co-authors the vSAN Deep Dive book series and the vSphere Clustering Deep Dive book series. Duncan also co-hosts the Unexplored Territory Podcast.

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