I’ve been dual booting Linux and windows for about two years now, but in those two years, I have never booted into windows, except by mistake.

This made me think about removing windows and just saving that wasted space for Linux. I only ever dual booted for the off chance the peer pressure to play anti cheat games was too great, but so far it hasn’t.

For the off chance where I want to play a game that doesn’t run well on Linux, is it a good idea to do that via VM instead of dual boot, or is it too much hassle? Will there be performance hit or any issues with those games?

  • cablepick@lemmy.cablepick.net
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    1 year ago

    What hypervisor are you using?

    I use proxmox and run a couple windows VMs for Remote Desktop. I’ve passed through nvidia gpus and even at point had a nvidia grid setup running splitting up a P40 across multiple VMs.

    The nvidia gpu’s require several config options to ‘spoof’ a real desktop and prevent the code 43 error but windows still identifies them as virtual machines. I’ve never found a way for trick windows itself into thinking it’s stand alone.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Nvidia stopped producing the stupid code 43 error on their (consumer) GPUs a while ago (version 465 of their drivers). The P40 is possibly different because it’s not a consumer chip, but for gaming GPUs it should work out of the box now.

      I say should because Nvidias driver are hot piles of garbage so even if they intend to make it work in VMs now there’s a good chance it just doesn’t.

      • cablepick@lemmy.cablepick.netEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Its been a while since I’ve had any gpu’s attached to a windows VM but I think my time pre dates the change. I realized they were not actually doing anything for my given workloads so I sold most of them. The P40 is setup in a VM for tensorflow now and one of these days Ill get the time to go back to that.

    • dog@yiffit.net
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      1 year ago

      for hypervisor i’m using libvirt+qemu. by doing this, a few lines in the .xml for the vm is all that is needed for me to enable some hyper-v feature flags to spoof to windows that it’s not a vm. check to see if proxmox has some hyper-v features you can enable for this purpose.