This isn't really in my wheelhouse, but would running Linux as your main OS and using a Windows VM to game solve your problem? That's one solution I'm looking into. I'm also looking into SteamOS, but I don't know if it would be any good for the machine learning stuff I do.
It's rather hard to do that without 2 GPUs, gpu partitioning just isn't a thing on Linux yet and virtual GPUs I have mostly found with virtual box with mixed success. You CAN have a full GPU passthrough but that's basically dual booting with extra steps, not really worth it for gaming(where it will complain with the anti cheat shit games).
Very, very minor games I have made work in a VM but we're talking so old you can just run them on Linux through wine.
VMs/emulators are a huge hit to performance, even a really good PC will struggle with a lot of current gen games if you have to nerf it with a VM.
Idk why emulators aren't written as live OSs rather than VMs, a lot of live OSs are really simple and performance would be so much better if you didn't force your PC to run a Russian nesting doll of OSs.
Edit: I could be mistaken but afaik emulators are a type of VM, hence why I'm lumping them together, and WINE is an emulator, so I'm not seeing the distinction.
This isn't really in my wheelhouse, but would running Linux as your main OS and using a Windows VM to game solve your problem? That's one solution I'm looking into. I'm also looking into SteamOS, but I don't know if it would be any good for the machine learning stuff I do.
It's rather hard to do that without 2 GPUs, gpu partitioning just isn't a thing on Linux yet and virtual GPUs I have mostly found with virtual box with mixed success. You CAN have a full GPU passthrough but that's basically dual booting with extra steps, not really worth it for gaming(where it will complain with the anti cheat shit games).
Very, very minor games I have made work in a VM but we're talking so old you can just run them on Linux through wine.
VMs/emulators are a huge hit to performance, even a really good PC will struggle with a lot of current gen games if you have to nerf it with a VM.
Idk why emulators aren't written as live OSs rather than VMs, a lot of live OSs are really simple and performance would be so much better if you didn't force your PC to run a Russian nesting doll of OSs.
Edit: I could be mistaken but afaik emulators are a type of VM, hence why I'm lumping them together, and WINE is an emulator, so I'm not seeing the distinction.
Should we tell him guys? :)
Pretty sure it stands for Is Not an Emulator. It's a translation layer, not emulation.
I confess to being a tech retard.
No I just thought it was funny because it's in the name.
It's not necessary to run a VM for Windows games when Proton exists and works perfectly with 99% of all Windows games.