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If you're like me, and just don't want to shut off Linux to play some games, I'd recommend looking into virtualising Windows and PCI passthroughing your GPU. I
by Shoue 6y ago
If you're like me, and just don't want to shut off Linux to play some games, I'd recommend looking into virtualising Windows and PCI passthroughing your GPU. I just change the channel on my monitor to switch between Linux and Windows, but if you have two monitors you can dedicate one to each OS. You don't need a hardware kvm switch, evdev lets you swap keyboard/mouse control between host and guest OS with LCtrl+RCtrl, and audio goes through Pulseaudio.
You get to avoid using WSL and get the full Linux experience without compromising gaming – with few exceptions: the more extreme anti-cheat software detects VM usage, and that applies to a very small set of AAA games.
- aembleton 6y agoWhat virtualisation software did you use to achieve that? I spent a few days trying to get it to work on virtual box, vmware and kvm. I gave up and install the Windows to dual boot.
- chousuke 6y agoYou can get it to work with VMWare and KVM, but in most cases you'll run into problems with hardware. Very few motherboards (and GPUs) actually properly implement the required functionality, so if you don't consider this use case during hardware selection, chances are you won't be able to get it to work in a stable manner. A motherboard claiming support for VT-d is no guarantee that it is able to do anything useful with it.