• Random123
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    613 hours ago

    Does win10 vm run games well? (like power hungry games)

    • @[email protected]
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      28 hours ago

      Proton is a better option unless the game needs Anti-Cheat, which most won’t work in a VM, anyway

      Personally I dual boot Win10 LTSC with fake credentials and some privacy tweaks for games that need to be on windows

    • @[email protected]
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      812 hours ago

      I don’t recommend going that direction. I think you’ll get better results with Proton and Proton-based solutions like Lutris and family.

    • Ace! _SL/S
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      713 hours ago

      With GPU passthrough you can get almost native performance. This requires 2 GPUs though (iGPU as second one should suffice), dunno about the input lag and stability though as I only have one GPU

      Without it though? Not even worth trying

      • @[email protected]
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        112 hours ago

        Someone in a previous post said they did it with one GPU, using a script to handle the swap when they were done with the VM.

        • Ace! _SL/S
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          8 hours ago

          That’s definitely possible but would make the host OS unusable while the VM is running afaik. Why not dual boot at that point?

          • @[email protected]
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            17 hours ago

            I believe it was brought up after the previous Windows update fuckup, so that’s as good a reason as any. Some people don’t want to reserve a partition just for Windows but still need/want to be able to use certain programs that aren’t yet usable on Linux.

            VMs safely contain Windows so it can’t do anything to the host, and if you’re playing a game on a Windows VM, you’re probably not worried about using the host anyway. I’ve considered it myself, but I’ve done dual boot, and it’s not worth having the training wheels, imo.

      • @[email protected]
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        212 hours ago

        I have heard, though not tried, that GPU passthrough works for those diminishingly few problematic games where a certain anti-cheat is the sticking point.

    • @[email protected]
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      311 hours ago

      I’ve tested it, and while it does work, there are some issues:

      1. The anti-cheat doesn’t work for all games (delta force demo).
      2. Sometimes i had strange sound glitches.
      3. I had to use a second mouse. In certain games where you drag the camera (like Sins of a Solar Empire), the camera spins uncontrollably fast.
      4. It’s not as fast or responsive, but good enough.
      5. Game Pass games don’t run.

      Because of these points, I still keep Windows 10 as a dual boot option.