I've recently got a new PC with a Ryzen 3900X, RTX 2080, and Gigabyte Xtreme as motherboard. CPU virtualization is enabled in the BIOS.
While setting up the system I installed the latest version of VmWare Player available, 14.1.7. I'm using two VMs, Windows 7 x64 and Windows XP and both have the same problem.
Upon starting the VM, it hangs on a black screen before showing the VmWare logo. VmWare Player is responsive but the machine itself is busy, I cannot restart, suspend, or do anything with it. If I try to close VmWare the program either pops up a box saying "the VM is busy" or just does nothing, and I have to kill the process from task manager. Unless I restart the system, the VM remains locked even through explorer.
I've tried to uninstall VmWar Player and install an older version, 14.1.4, but the behaviour remains. I also have a notebook with an Intel CPU and the same VM works as it should.
Is there any incompatibility with Player 14 and Ryzen CPUs? Or is it something else? I can't quite figure out what could be, both notebook and desktop are running a fully upgraded Win10 and the same antivirus/firewall (Bitdefender). On my previous desktop system (again Intel CPU) this never happened.