yeah… funny thing is i’ve always had linux installed in a dualboot config… since the late 90s, but i rarely ever booted it unless i got into a nerd mode because “muh gamez”
but in the past year someone on hexbear pointed out you can run just about any game in linux just fine now, and i tested it, and switched to my linux install permanently. funny enough though, there are certain things that don’t work very well in linux like modding Fallout or Skyrim, so just a couple days ago I finally found a working guide to doing single-gpu passthrough to a windows vm which i have completely locked down. got the best of all worlds now.
I’ve gone through guides before on youtube and various other forums and got ALMOST to a working setup but never crossed the line where they actually worked until I went through this guide. I went through this one step-by-step to the very end.
I had some network issues in the windows vm after following all the steps which ended up being caused by having opensnitch and mullvad vpn installed on my linux host. I asked https://chat.qwen.ai/ (free) for help and it walked me through fixing those things and getting my 10gbe nic working.
funny enough though, there are certain things that don’t work very well in linux like modding Fallout or Skyrim
I think a lot of that is because there are certain assumptions made by setup scripts for those that use powershell or Windows pathing/dll side loading.
You could probably identify the ones that are using powershell can non-posix filepathing and manually patch them, but that could be quite a chore.
When I say they don’t work very well, I don’t mean that they didn’t work at all. I found ways around it such as using SteamTinkerLaunch to install nexusmod’s vortex mod manager, and finangling shit to get it to find the games and do the automatic mod installations. I got a 90gb skyrim mod collection installed that way, but actually playing the game afterward produced some pretty awful framerate issues. I reached out to the collection’s author on discord and he said there is no way my rig should have any problem whatsoever. So I went back and did the windows vm thing, reinstalled all the stuff, and he was right, it runs locked at 120fps without a single hiccup in windows. Proton doesn’t always work as well as windows for certain things, but for most everything else it does.
yeah… funny thing is i’ve always had linux installed in a dualboot config… since the late 90s, but i rarely ever booted it unless i got into a nerd mode because “muh gamez”
but in the past year someone on hexbear pointed out you can run just about any game in linux just fine now, and i tested it, and switched to my linux install permanently. funny enough though, there are certain things that don’t work very well in linux like modding Fallout or Skyrim, so just a couple days ago I finally found a working guide to doing single-gpu passthrough to a windows vm which i have completely locked down. got the best of all worlds now.
Could you link the guide? Been having a bear of a time with my Fallout games.
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https://gitlab.com/risingprismtv/single-gpu-passthrough/-/wikis/home
I’ve gone through guides before on youtube and various other forums and got ALMOST to a working setup but never crossed the line where they actually worked until I went through this guide. I went through this one step-by-step to the very end.
I had some network issues in the windows vm after following all the steps which ended up being caused by having opensnitch and mullvad vpn installed on my linux host. I asked https://chat.qwen.ai/ (free) for help and it walked me through fixing those things and getting my 10gbe nic working.
Good luck to ya!
I think a lot of that is because there are certain assumptions made by setup scripts for those that use powershell or Windows pathing/dll side loading.
You could probably identify the ones that are using powershell can non-posix filepathing and manually patch them, but that could be quite a chore.
When I say they don’t work very well, I don’t mean that they didn’t work at all. I found ways around it such as using SteamTinkerLaunch to install nexusmod’s vortex mod manager, and finangling shit to get it to find the games and do the automatic mod installations. I got a 90gb skyrim mod collection installed that way, but actually playing the game afterward produced some pretty awful framerate issues. I reached out to the collection’s author on discord and he said there is no way my rig should have any problem whatsoever. So I went back and did the windows vm thing, reinstalled all the stuff, and he was right, it runs locked at 120fps without a single hiccup in windows. Proton doesn’t always work as well as windows for certain things, but for most everything else it does.