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How to use your NVidia Graphics Card in VMware Passthrough mode (Bypass Windows Error 43)

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First of all, I have to credit the original author of the script which is sk1080 for his amazing work. Unfortunately on his github there is no full tutorial on how to use his work so I decided to write a full tutorial. Quote from github: "So, the story so far: You have a VM that uses a passed-through NVIDIA graphics card However, the driver errored out with code 43, or outright blue-screened your VM This is because NVIDIA "Introduced a Bug" making their driver "Fail" on "Unsupported configurations", such as having a geforce, by "accidentally" detecting the presence of a hypervisor". Of course we all know this is not a bug if it's this simple to solve, probably Nvidia is just disabling this feature to sell more high end graphic card with support for virtualization. If you want to use your Nvidia graphics card, you first need to insert the card in your host when it's powered off and unplugged from the mains. A...