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I'm considering to switch to Proxmox for my main PC, run a Windows VM on top and passthrough the GPU to play games. However, I heard anti-cheates aren't that friendly to VMs. Had anyone tried this? Thanks.

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[–] dannydotcafe@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm in the planning stages of a build that will be essentially this, a proxmox build that'll include my NAS with several hard drives (running in one VM), all my docker containers (another VM) and Linux and Windows vms with passthrough that I can spin up temporarily for games.

I think I can get the Windows VM in a place where I can also restart the whole machine and boot in natively, as a fallback for games with aggressive anti cheats that won't allow VMs, which I don't think I'll be playing much of anyway.

To answer your question, it really would be best to check game by game if the anti cheat allows VMs.

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

That's kind of my plan too, without the native boot. I tried that route and found myself using Windows more than I should.

I'm planning to have the Windows VM running the game and I use Parsec/Moonlight from a Linux VM to game on.

I did looked online about EAC and BattleEye, both are popular and not that VM friendly, but I heard some say it's fine. Information conflicts and I don't want to test the water and got myself banned. Elite and Starfield doesn't know if they support VM or not.