Like the title says, what’s the main difference in performance between gaming on a windows VM with gpu passthrough on linux vs windows installed the usual way on bare metal? Talking about steam games and not online multiplayer with anti-cheat.
Because i would really like to get rid of my windows dual boot but for the moment i don’t want to get into linux gaming with proton etc…
Also, i would use this VM for other windows-exclusive softwares.
Thank you in advance!
Depends how far into vfio you want to go. I run a proxmox VM to stream games from my server to any tv in the house. You can also set it up on your main (and I do, but I like to tinker a lot so having back ups and flexibility is nice) with only one gpu as long as you have some way to launch your computer (either auto boot or through browser).
In terms of performance, there’s generally barely a noticeable difference between bare metal and vm.