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
Surprised that nobody yelled Proton yet? Lots of Windows games running pretty good, some close to native, some even better on Linux through Proton. But here is the thing you mentioned which could be a problem: anti cheat. It works on Linux but depends on the developer to enable it. Some major games simply does not support it. You can check them here: https://areweanticheatyet.com/ , for general compability check https://protondb.com , even non Steam games can run through Lutris with little to no hassle. Proxmox with GPU passthrough seems like a big clunky overhead in terms of gaming but maybe you got that game that will never run on Linux.
Thanks for the information.
However, I’m not concern about Linux, Windows, or Proton. I’m fine on any platfrom that I can game on.
I’m concern about anti-cheat within virtualized environmnet due to my unpopular setup: a Homelab running services like PiHole and a PC for daily and gamming need all roll into one machine. The concept behind is configuration and data isolation (and fun).
Can’t speak to anti-cheat, but I’ve run a Windows 11 VM with GPU passthrough on Proxmox. I got basically identical performance from the hardware, considering the reduced ram/cpu count in the VM. USB port passthrough was glitchy though. I didn’t spend too much time messing with it but it definitely was functional. Battlenet (World of Warcraft, Overwatch, etc…) worked fine. I don’t recall any game that didn’t run but, again, I didn’t do too much.
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.
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.
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.
Video card passthrough can be a real struggle. If you are using Intel/Nvidia it will be easier though
