Windows Sandbox is a new lightweight desktop environment tailored for safely running applications in isolation.
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Updated Dec 12, 2022
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I'm too interested in more information about GPUs which support WDDM 2.5 and hardware acceleration for VMs, not only in context of Sandbox feature, but also because I use a Hyper-V VM on a client version of windows for development environment. I noticed, that even though I have plenty of RAM, fast SSDs, 10-cores 7900X processor, and connect to the VM locally from the host machine, rendering some UI parts of different apps becomes very slow over time after starting the VM. That's especially noticeable when I have 3-4 VS2017 instances launched simultaneously, as well as other dev tools and browsers. Among lots, lots of possible reasons for UI performance to degrade in VM over RDP I suspect graphics subsystem/drivers. I tried to profile several apps, including Windows Explorer, and the hot paths were ending in different GDI functions. Interesting, at the same time the CPU was underutilized, only about 15%. So I'm really interested in information which graphics hardware can solve my problem, and whether that hardware includes consumer models, or server only.