Mouse behaviour, Studio 4.5, Windows 8 (64 bit), VMware Fusion
Hello,
I wonder if anyone has seen this issue and can point me to a solution. I am trying to run DAZ Studio 4.5 Pro on Windows 8 (64 bit) which is running inside a virtual machine in VMware Fusion 5. Fusion 5 comes with OpenGL 2.1, and Studio claims everything is OK (see output "Current Hardware Features" further below). It starts up w/o any issue and displays genesis. The problems arise when I try any of the mouse operations in view port (orbit, rotate, pan, zoom) ... the image just jumps around erratically, apparently completely unrelated to what I do with the trackpad (which is handed through to the virtual machine as a 2-button mouse). The same issue shows up when I try to rotate the whole figure (select all, go to "Pose & Animate", General -> Transforms -> Rotation -> X Rotation" for example. The slider just jumps around).
Posing individual limbs works fine, though.
--> Any ideas?
Cheers,
Chris
Here's the output of "Current Hardware Features":
Current OpenGL Version:
2.1 Mesa 7.12-devel (git-8cad948)
OpenGL Provider:
VMware, Inc.
Hardware:
Gallium 0.4 on SVGA3D; build: RELEASE;
Features:
MultiTexturing
Supported
Shadow Map
Supported
Hardware Antialiasing
Supported
OpenGL Shading Language
Supported
Pixel Buffer
Supported
Pixel Buffer Size
1024 x 1024
Maximum Number of Lights
8
Number of Texture Units
8
Maximum Texture Size
8192 x 8192
----------------> There are no error messages in the log file
Comments
... I also tried different external mouses to rule out mac book pro's touch pad being the source of error here ...
... running natively on the MBP of course works fine also ...
Here's the solution:
You need to connect a separate mouse exclusively to the VM, bypassing the host OS. To do so, connect a second mouse to your Mac or PC, and follow VMware Knowledge Base article 1033435. (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1033435)
Cheers,
Chris
I have the same problem running Parallels 7 on a MBP.
I looked on the Parallels website but could not find an equivalent fix that was given by Chris for VMware.
Does anyone know how to resolve this problem.
Thanks.