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.
All depends on the games you play, personally is mostly emulators and indie so there’s no problem. Generally the more online/micro transactions, the more hostile the game will be to vms
If you want a list just google what games can be played in a qemu vm
It’s feasible. I ran that so setup for a couple of years. Not with Proxmox as desktop system, but Windows VM with VGA passthrough for gaming, relying on Steam in-home streaming.
Wouldn’t recommend. I didn’t find a ton of games that wouldn’t work, but the performance hit was quite noticeable in hindsight.
I never sorted out core-pinning, though.
But overall the setup was very fragile and prone to breaking after random updates just as much as randomly fixing itself with the next update.
Streaming was probably the biggest pain point, though.Yea its doable. Really depends on the games anti-cheat. You’d want to check each game.
Battle Eye based anti cheat games like R6S and Tarkov gave me issues last time i tried a similar setup. That was a few years back however, and with valves proton push, much of the compatibility has improved since then.
Marauders is the only game that I have had an issue with. I’m not a prolific gamer but everything else I have tried has been fine.
I have proxmox running on a nuc and do a GPU passthrough to a windows VM. I haven’t encountered any anti cheat issues yet, but I honestly don’t game near as much as I used to.
