Vmware - Videos lagging and no sound

First those issues are likely due to the fact that you are running virtualized.

As for the video, there could be multiple issues.

  • What resources did you give the VM from both a CPU and GPU perspective. By default, video decoding is probably happening on the virtualized CPU.
  • Can you share some of the sites you are watching videos from where you see that behavior(Don’t share them if they are NSFW :wink:)
  • How much lag are you seeing? There will be a small delay in this case no matter what because you are passing everything through a virtualized GPU.

Audio should “just work” with vmware assuming you have the default audio devices in your VM. We can help you troubleshoot this if you want but that will only help you with the VM experience. Real hardware will be different and probably work just fine unless you have some obscure audio hardware.