Correction. This only occurs with the x64 version of Windows 10 and Chrome. 

I've also hit this exact same issue - I'm running VMWare 12.5.6 build-5528349

Could you please attach the output from visiting "chrome://gpu"?  Thanks.

Here you go: https://pastebin.com/ZnJLFSGk

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Thanks for the info.

We currently blacklist all GPU features on VMWare on Windows GPU driver <= 7.14.1.1134.  This bug is on 8.15.1.48.

I'm going to expand the blacklist to all versions.

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/eae4ab098377c2df55fa41283612b169fc5ff37b

commit eae4ab098377c2df55fa41283612b169fc5ff37b
Author: Victor Miura <vmiura@chromium.org>
Date: Sat Aug 19 00:02:30 2017

Blacklist GPU acceleration on all Windows VMware driver versions.

R=zmo@chromium.org
BUG= 754435 

Cq-Include-Trybots: master.tryserver.chromium.android:android_optional_gpu_tests_rel;master.tryserver.chromium.linux:linux_optional_gpu_tests_rel;master.tryserver.chromium.mac:mac_optional_gpu_tests_rel;master.tryserver.chromium.win:win_optional_gpu_tests_rel
Change-Id: Ic7cad1e7dfc3f341471d7891ffdaf988aa068224
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/620247
Commit-Queue: Victor Miura <vmiura@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Zhenyao Mo <zmo@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#495754}
[modify] https://crrev.com/eae4ab098377c2df55fa41283612b169fc5ff37b/gpu/config/software_rendering_list.json

 Issue 755790  has been merged into this issue.

reporter: would you be able to confirm if this issue is resolved in Chrome Canary?

All good! Thanks. 

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Why are you blacklisting our driver?
Please reach out to me if we need a technical solution here, I am the Workstation product manager.
Mroy At vmware

Hi, I am one of the engineering manager @ vmware for Graphics. Can you please attach the vmware.log file for the Win 10 VM you are running?

Thanks,
Anil Nambiar 

The NextAction date has arrived: 2017-09-25

Also wondering why VMware video drivers have been black listed. We have been working on issue 699252 regarding CPU utilization in VMware VDI environments. Blacklisting the driver now removes the possibility of VMware VDI environments utilizing GPU cards to offload processing from CPU to GPU when using the chrome browser. I see next action was scheduled for 9/25/17 and it is now 1/9/18 - any updates from Chromium or VMware? (I see mroy + anambiar from vmware on the thread). I can confirm via 'gpuvm' and chrome://gpu that the gpu is not being used and we are forced to software only mode. We are on VMware SVGA 3D 8.15.1.50. 

Opened  issue 800453  for further discussion as to not hijack original posters thread that has been marked as fixed.