Using a virtual machine for gaming

GraySenshi · May 30, 2016

I know people say it's not made for gaming but why isn't it if the game has low requirements and your have a op system

Calculagator · May 30, 2016

VMs can only take advantage of the most basic 3d acceleration. There may be some ways to work around this, but they are mostly experimental and not very stable last I checked. If the game uses a GPU at all, a VM is not a good option.

TerryLaze · May 30, 2016

GraySenshi :

Nobody is saying that you can't do it,even on a simple system you can run some games on the VM,but you do loose some system resources and for gaming usually you want the best performance.

GraySenshi · May 30, 2016

So basically there is a video driver isn't able to use what it needs and I am running 2x 980ti so I figured if I use a single monitor rather then 3 I could play it twice at the same time when my cousin is over... So I would be limited to non gpu games such as Java based

TerryLaze · May 30, 2016

vmware if you install the extra vmtools is actually pretty good in 3d games,try it out,it might be good enough.

apk24 · May 30, 2016

If your hypervisor (vm software) and hardware support VT-d, you could pass through your gpu into the VM, it would make it a comparable experience to gaming directly on physical machine. However, when you pass through the GPU, only that VM can use that GPU, and the host loses access to the GPU.

While I haven't looked into it in too much detail, there are GPUs intended to be used by virtual machines. Multi-user GPUs or some such they are called.

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