After installing the vmware tools on a Windows 2008 (R2) server, the mouse (still) performs very slow.
The solution is to update the video card driver.
Even after vmware tools installation, the vga card is listed as “Standard VGA Graphics Adapter”
Normally all drivers can be found at:
C:\Program Files\VMWare\VMWare Tools\Drivers\
However, the vga driver is located at:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMWare\Drivers\
Take the “wddm_video” folder.
A reboot is required. After that, you’ll be surprised :)
Increasing the virtual video RAM is supposed to increase performance even more.