Relevant versions:
ESXi 5.5
Windows 8 VM
Quadro 2000
nvidia 320.86 drivers
View Agent 5.3
VDCA plugin
View Client 2.3
I followed documentation to enable vDGA in view (enable passthrough, install driver, install agent, run monterey enable), but was not able to connect with view client and make use of the graphics card. After finally trying a tip in another post, I plugged a display into the card and whent into the device manager in the vm and disabled the svga adapter. Finally, it works.
My question is why is this required, or what am I missing? I did not set any pool settings as I'm using VDCA. Is there a registry setting needed? I used --desktopprotocol pcoip and --desktoplayout fullscreen when running the client.