The experienced seemed better on the virtual to me. aside from downloading the app trio evening running my steam this way seemed more convenient and was more desirable being that both Steam icons were on my desktop and I could just click it and go. Programming wise I would enjoy seeing the difference in performance in numbers than personal opinion you know. Yes in theory direct should beat virtual but in this sense, but is it by enough to make a difference. Also cost wise I paid nothing to do the App Trio and fake the windows funk, rather than get a key or what have you. the only app I decided to subscribe to is crossfire to let it update but the free version worked fine and wasn't really needed I found out. I just like to see the data on performance between the two.