Windows 10: Update WDDM 1.3 to WDDM 2.0 or Later in VirtualMachine

Dear All,I am currently running a Windows 10 virtual machine on a Red Hat 8.6 host using KVM/QEMU as the virtualization platform. The virtual GPU assigned to my VM is the Red Hat QXL Controller, and the Windows Display Driver Model WDDM version is 1.3.I have installed the latest VirtIO drivers from the official Red Hat repository, but the WDDM version remains at 1.3. I need WDDM 2.0 or later, I would like to know if there is any way to update the display driver to support a newer version of WDDM within a virtualized environment.System Specification:Host Name: DESKTOP-L184GLV

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WDDM Driver Modules

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) version depends on the architecture of the display card that is designed by the hardware manufacturer, to update the WDDM version you will have to update the display driver from your display driver
manufacturer, if you don’t use a graphics card, installing a new graphics card that supports latest version of WDDM will work.



Additional information: Introduction
to the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) and also check the
WDDM 2.1 Features.



Regards,

Amit Sunar

Microsoft Community – Moderator

 

WDDM version?

Win10 1803 introduced WDDM 2.4, some vendors already presented drivers supporting it beforehand. (at least Nvidia)

It happened with the previous version too WDDM version empty in Win10 Fall Creators Update

 

dxdiag show wddm 1.3

You are only about 8 builds behind. 11041 may not support WDDM 2.x First step is to update to the current build