I am giving up on VM Gaming
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I am giving up on VM Gaming
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Re: I am giving up on VM Gaming
#2I also went down this path but for a different reason. Game streaming to my steam deck from my ultrawide monitor wasn't practical. The games on whales project is really good, it's not VM but rather containerized game sessions. It has numerous issues with podman sadly which is why I now use edvi and various scripts to just generate a fake monitor to stream.
Re: I am giving up on VM Gaming
#3Interesting article.
So for someone who is constrained to one PC, is dual booting the better option, or is there something else?
Re: I am giving up on VM Gaming
#4I have a windows 11 VM under proxmox for gaming
- I bought windows 11 retail on a USB stick. (before the AI nonsense, etc)
- I run windows in a VM without a network interface. This eliminates SO MANY PROBLEMS. microsoft being problem #1
- I disabled all nonsense, windows defender was slightly harder
- I share a drive with linux (only one booted at once)
- linux runs lgogodownloader to load all my gog games onto the shared drive
- I install the games under windows from the shared drive
- someday I might change shared drive to virtiofs
- gpu passthrough
- I pass through an entire USB controller for audio, and plug in a USB schiit dac + headphones. passing the controller is key for glitchless audio
- some day maybe I'll figure out a steam VM. like maybe connect stuff once, download game for offline play, then take it off the network forever. Maybe have VMs for collections of games.
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#5I have a windows 11 VM under proxmox for gaming - I bought windows 11 retail on a USB stick. (before the AI nonsense, etc) - I run windows in a VM without a network interface. This eliminates SO MANY PROBLEMS. microsoft being problem #1 - I disabled all nonsense, windows defender was slightly harder - I share a drive with linux (only one booted at once) - linux runs lgogodownloader to load all my gog games onto the s…
Do you only play singleplayer games?
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#6Interesting article. So for someone who is constrained to one PC, is dual booting the better option, or is there something else?
The best option is to run a Windows host with WSL and an extra EXT4 volume mounted to both windows and linux (this is a non issue as long as it's not the boot drive for linux). User WSL for everything linux, optionally you can also just mount the EXT4 volume with all your stuff to a real VM if you need to (this lets you have windows GUI apps in windows, tho maybe WSL does this now too?). Everything works, you have the best of all worlds.
Re: I am giving up on VM Gaming
#7I have a windows 11 VM under proxmox for gaming - I bought windows 11 retail on a USB stick. (before the AI nonsense, etc) - I run windows in a VM without a network interface. This eliminates SO MANY PROBLEMS. microsoft being problem #1 - I disabled all nonsense, windows defender was slightly harder - I share a drive with linux (only one booted at once) - linux runs lgogodownloader to load all my gog games onto the s…
Do you only play singleplayer games?
In the windows vm yes.
Re: I am giving up on VM Gaming
#8> GPU sharing with docker and VMs
This should work without needing a reboot. You do have to bind the vfio driver at boot, but the archwiki gives a script to unbind vfio and load the Nvidia driver: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#Bi...
Which anecdotally worked fine on my RTX3050.
I did give up as well though, all of this is just too much of a faff. Hopefully Intel continues to make strides with their discrete graphics. They are the only manufacturer without DRM blocking this feature which the hardware can obviously do.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you only play singleplayer games?
In the windows vm yes.
have you tried using proton//steam on linux lately? I find almost every game I want to play actually works decently well now. The ones that don't are multiplayer/online ones that require some sort of anti-cheat.
Re: I am giving up on VM Gaming
#10Interesting article. So for someone who is constrained to one PC, is dual booting the better option, or is there something else?
The best option is to run a Windows host with WSL and an extra EXT4 volume mounted to both windows and linux (this is a non issue as long as it's not the boot drive for linux). User WSL for everything linux, optionally you can also just mount the EXT4 volume with all your stuff to a real VM if you need to (this lets you have windows GUI apps in windows, tho maybe WSL does this now too?). Everything works, you have th…
I did not understand the extra EXT4 volume. Do you mind explaining me the advantages of this workflow?