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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.