Hello,
I have VMware Workstation Pro 14. My host system is running Win 8.1 and has a nVidia Quadro P2000 graphics card with the latest display driver. Everything's stable.
I have 3 100ppi monitors with the following characteristics:
Left: 1200 x 1600 pixels turned up sideways.
Center: 2650 x 1600 pixels in landscape orientation.
Right: 1200 x 1600 pixels turned up sideways.
When I run a Win 10 v1709 VM full-screen on the center monitor only, the desktop icon fonts look sharp and clean. When I switch to a layout using all monitors, what appears to be slightly inaccurate horizontal display occurs. Specifically, I'm talking about changing from Layout 1 to Layout 4 here:
This image shows a screen grab of a couple of icons on the desktop. You can see the difference where some pixels are doubled horizontally in the Layout 4 image below.
Here's the weird part:
Only the desktop image and icons seem to be affected. Text rendered inside a guest's window comes out fine.
It almost has to be Windows 10's fault, but on the other hand why would Windows 10 change the way things are displayed on the center monitor just because a couple of side monitors have been enabled?
I've turned off the "Automatically adjust user interface size in the virtual machine" checkbox because everything is always right at 100%. And I've made sure the Display Scale is 100% in the VM in all cases.
Any ideas what could be going wrong here?
-Noel