• henfredemars@infosec.pub
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        17 days 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.

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        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

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          17 days 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.

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

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              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.

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        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

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          17 days 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.

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        17 days 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.