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Hello everyone, I'm currently in the process of setting up a home lab VM server tailored for gaming purposes. My plan involves pooling together some of the primary PC components with a close friend to build this lab. Essentially, we aim to configure two instances and allocate both my friend's GPU and mine to these instances. By doing so, we intend to access the VMs remotely via Parsec, enabling us to game from any location with a stable internet connection (meeting Parsec's minimal requirements, naturally). Now, onto my questions: If budget constraints were non-existent, which hypervisor would you recommend for optimal gaming performance in this scenario? and what would win second place if money was an issue? Considering that my server will be operational round-the-clock, would it be more prudent to utilize my current high end consumer-level CPU or invest in one of those enterprise-grade CPUs designed to handle heavy workloads and prolonged usage? Looking forward to your insights and recommendations. Thanks in advance!

Hello all, First time poster, long time lurker. I've finally got my remote gaming PC setup and desk to a point where I would like to share the setup with the community. I hope others wanting a similar setup can gleam some useful ideas from this post! Background: My gaming PC puts out a good amount of heat, and my desk is in my bedroom. In the summer the room is brutal after a few hours of gameplay. Even with aggressive AC, the room can hit 90F. I've seen Linus' setup and I already had a server rack, so I figured I'd do a similar thing with the long distance display cables. I did try out other methods; RDP, moonlight, and steam remote play, but found the latency and compression were just too noticeable. Not to mention that wake on lan is unreliable in my experience. As for thunderbolt, I didn't want to get stuck into an ecosystem of specific motherboards and cpus. The Long Cables: I found some good 75ft optical USB and Displayport cables on Amazon for ~$160 a piece. Its definitely pricy for a single cable, but it is plenty worth it IMO. I was worried about latency issues with long cables, but after testing it out, I found no noticeable difference between a 3ft USB and display cable and the 75ft cables. The Gaming PC Power Switch: The PC power switch circuit is 5v but only 0.01 amps, so voltage drop over 75ft could be less than a volt. So I could just run a pair of wires the whole distance. But I thought, if I'm running a whole other cable through the walls, I might as well make it a useful cable. Despite the extra cost, I decided to use a CAT 7 Ethernet cable and just hijack a twisted pair inside the cable. Just a little bit of future proofing if I move in the future, for the next person. I got one of those momentary push buttons with built in LED, the ones you might find on custom PC cases. And I could use a second twisted pair in the Ethernet cable and splice into the power LED header on the motherboard. Granted, the voltage drop at that distance with 24-26 awg wires is about half, but the LED still illuminates enough. And as a side benefit, I still had two twisted pairs left, just enough for a 100base-tx connection, as well as PoE mode A. (Don't ask me why when I already have an Ethernet cable to my room, in short I'm splicing off two pairs for a PoE powered GPS NTP server in the attic) As for each end of this power switch madness, I wanted something that wasn't entirely cobbled together. So, I found some Ethernet splitters, the ones that split out a gigabit Ethernet cables 4 twisted pairs into 2 100base-tx connections. For the PC side of things I got one of those M.2 to RJ45 network adapters. The one I found has the all the logic on the m.2 side, so the pcie bracket just had raw electrical connections. I used this as a nice way to make the bulkhead connection into the PC case. I got some splitters for the motherboards power sw and led headers, and connected up the rj45 network adapter. The other side was definitely more cobbled. I cut the end off an Ethernet cable and soldered the pairs (orange and green) onto the push button. Covered it in dielectric grease and wrapped in electrical tape and fabric wrap. Audio: I went pretty basic here, my monitor has 3.5mm port, so I'm just using audio over displayport. Then I have a terribly cheap 3.5mm mixer. I have ground loop isolators on all inputs and outputs and there is still a small hum in the background - to be fixed later. USB hub: This remote PC isn't my daily driver, for that I have a SFF Linux box. My KVM switch has two USB 3.0 ports (not for keyboard and mouse) that I have for a microphone and any USB drives I might need. Side note: The reason I have the connectpro KVM specifically is because I hate the delay of regular USB switches, so I needed one with USB DDM. Cable routing: I'm fairly lucky, theres an air return vent that shares a wall with my bedroom. I'm on the second floor and my server rack is in the basement, right next to the HVAC system, so it was basically a direct cable drop through the first floor. Pictures: Middle monitor is the only one I run on the gaming PC, the sides stay permanently on my daily driver SFF. Views of my cable rats nest. Gotta hide 'em somewhere: Definitely not completely finished with this setup, still have some things to take care of, like having a non-duct taped together quality audio mixer, and maybe mounting the UPS and KVM under the desk. I would love to hear what y'all think! Parts Lists: Desk: Flexispot E7 Pro Center Monitor: Dell s2716dg - 27" 1440p 144hz Side Monitors: Lenovo li2364d - 23" 1080p 60hz UPS: APC BE850M2 KVM: ConnectPro UDP-12AP Keyboard: Logitech K740 Mouse: Logitech M500s Headphones: beyerdynamic DT 700 PRO X Network Switch: Ubiquiti UniFi Switch Lite 8 PoE Access Point: D-Link PoE DAP-2610 (openwrt) Cables: 1x 75ft Kxable USB 3.0 Extension Cable, Active Fiber Optical Male to Female 1x 75ft FURUI Fiber Optic DisplayPort 2.1 1x 75ft Adoreen Cat 7 SFTP shielded RJ45 Ethernet cable PVC/LLDPE 26 AWG Copper Power switch: 1x uxcell Momentary Metal Push Button Switch 12mm Mounting 1NO 3-6V White LED (I'd recommend a larger diameter though) 1x IO Crest M.2 Gigabit Ethernet Module, 1000BASE-T M.2 A+E NIC Module 2x SinLoon (A-Pair) RJ45 Ethernet Splitter Adapter Gaming PC: CPU: Intel i7-8700k @ 5 GHz Cooler: Corsair H100i v2 AIO RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB DDR4 3000MHz CL15 Motherboard: Asus ROG Maximus XI Code GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080 Noctua Storage: Samsung 970 evo plus 2TB NVMe Case: SilverStone RM52 5U Rackmount Server Chassis SST-RM52 PSU: Corsair AX860 80+ Platinum Daily Driver SFF: CPU: Intel i3-10105 @ 3.7GHz Cooler: Cryorig C7G RAM: Crucial Ballistix 16GB DDR4 3200MHz CL16 Motherboard: MSI MEG Z490I UNIFY Mini-ITX GPU: Intel iGPU Storage: 2x Samsung SATA SSD 870 EVO 1TB (ZFS RAID) 1x Samsung NVMe SSD 980 PRO 500GB (Home drive) 1x Supermicro SATA SSD SuperDOM 16GB (Boot drive) Case: Sliger SM550 PSU: Corsair SF450 80+ Platinum

I'm using a p40 in WDDM mode with truenas scale as hypervisor and parsec is working on the gpu using the virtual display driver in fallback mode, but now I can't open display settings to change resolution. I think having the gpu in WDDM maybe causing this. Edit: After testing with a new virtual machine, this only happens when you turn on wddm. If I go into windows settings then select system, it also closes the window. Even in nvidia control panel I have 3d settings but can't pick a resolution higher than 768p and changing resolution to anything else causes it to crash too. When using software encoding, I was able to open display settings and change resolution. From the parsec client I can change to lower resolutions but can't get above 768p. I am not sure if this post here is related to my issue. https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/p40-passthrough-graphics-mode/162885 TrueNAS-SCALE-23.10.0.1 Windows 10 Pro for Workstations 22H2 19045.2965 with virtio drivers Nvidia driver 537.70 data-center tesla Parsec Build 150-91a I edited the registry for the P40 and changed the following in Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318} under 0002 modify: "AdapterType", to "1" modify: "FeatureScore", from "CF" to "D1" (hex) new: new->DWORD(32bit)，"GridLicensedFeatures" ，to "7" (force to enable Grid driver, this is what puts the gpu into WDDM mode) delete: "AdapterType" according to this forum post See fallback section. Edit: After futher testing, it seems you don't need this at all. https://support.parsec.app/hc/en-us/articles/360054478211-Multiple-Monitors-and-Virtual-Displays I then removed the display device from truenas. Only using this I get the 768p display. There is also this. https://github.com/itsmikethetech/Virtual-Display-Driver It appears as another display which I can switch to in parsec change the resolution to 1080p (from the parsec floating button). Is this strange or is it how it is supposed to work? I don't know. On this second display, I can see the cursor of the VM behind the cursor of the client when using parsec. But I can't set this as primary because I can't open the display settings. Maybe there is a file or registry I can edit to set it as primary and disable the other virtual display, but this seems really hacky and I don't like it. I used this as a starting off point.

I would like to have my gaming rig in a closet and game on it while in my living room. I was inspired by Linus' home gaming setup and was thinking about my options. Budget is not an issue but rather that I'm more or less stuck with cat 7. I live in a rented apartment so I'd rather try to work with what I have instead of pulling new cables. I have one ethernet line from my closet to my living room. What are my options to have a gaming server (probably a beefy computer with unraid similar to this setup) to which I can remotely (within the same LAN) connect and play games? As far as I see it, I either use Linus' approach and pull new cables (fiber optics, display port etc.) such that on the receiving end I only have my monitors and peripherals or I use my existing Ethernet cables that connect the gaming server with some type of NUC/barebones build and then remote desktop to it. Are there any other options that I'm missing? I have a feeling remote desktop is not going to give me the performance I want. I currently have a Samsung G9 and an ROG PG348Q hooked up to my gaming rig together with a boatload of peripherals. Not sure how a NUC would handle that with gsync and all. Basically I'm wondering if there is some kind of extender/adapter that takes display and usb input and routes it via ethernet so that I can connect natively my displays and peripherals over ethernet? Similar to what Linus did with thunderbolt (apparently he wasn't too happy with it in the end)

THE VIDEO I HAVE ATTATCHED HAS FLICKERING. EPILEPSY WARNING! Hi, I have been having very strange issues with my gpu. It is used and my setup is not the most common. It is running in a virtual machine with the host being proxmox and the virtual machine being arch linux I have 8 core deticated to it with 16gb of ram as well. My setup is a remote gaming setup where i use moonlight game stream with sunshine to allow me to play games anywhere. Now the screen is a virtual screen using Xorg tricks to make the driver think it is connected to a screen but I do not think this could be the issue The gpu utilisation in unigine superposition jumps from 70 to 100% constantly and causes the fps to jump from 20 to 40 in the extreme 1080p test. The final score is around ~ 3850 which is much lower then the usual a gtx 1080ti can get. Playing minecraft with shaders also feel choppy but without the insane flickering i get with the unigine benchmarks. I have attatched my dmesg which seems to have some errors but I cannot tell what they are about. Posiibly the gpu but I do not know. I have attatched my xorg.conf and the edid i am using for my virtual display The gpu itself never gets above 68C when gaming for long periods so it cannot be throttling. The gpu is at 1936mhz and it stays there but the gpu utilisation is a bit haywire My nvidia drivers are the latest 470.74 I am running linux kernel 5.14.7 I am using Arch linux Any help would be appreciated gpu1.mp4

Budget (including currency): $200 ish Country: Denmark Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: fps gaming and AutoCAD 3D modeling. Hi guys! First post here on LTT. Big fan. I need help figuring out what tech i need to make hdmi and usb over ethernet. It has to be low latency. I want to put my gaming pc in my server room so that I can access it in my office and living room.

Hey, is there any way I could without special hardwear (DP over ethernet covertors, ect.) conect to my pc over ethernet (with something like raspberry)? The result being that I could play on my pc in another room.

Hello, I have been trying for the past 2 days to get AMD Link to work. Nothing works (disabled firewall gived the app admin privileges, did a fresh install using DDU) I have tried in 2 different environments (2 different computers from 2 different networks, with 2 different phones 1 Android, 1 iPhone) 1st computer A Ryzen 5600x paired with 6800xt on an MSI b550 m running on Windows 11 paired with and iPhone (iOS 15) 2nd computer a Ryzen 3500x paired with a 6600xt on Gigabyte X570 running on Windows 10 paired with and android (Android 11) Is this feature a marketing stunt ? Am I missing something ?

Hi. I am trying to get my PC configured to boot on the Wi-Fi card I have installed, but the option to enable this in device manager is greyed out. How do I make it selectable?

I want a full gaming setup, but i also want to use the existing display, keyboard, mouse, speaker in my laptop. i am planning to buy a mini gaming pc probably from zotac and connect it to my laptop with a 1gbps crossover connection than use some kind of remote control solution (so that the entire setup can fit in my backpack when i go home from collage). i also wanted to have the host not to use mouse integration, but to simulate the actual hardware. I have considered steam's game stream but most of my game are not on steam. I have also considered nvidia's streaming but i need a 3rd party software on laptop and lock down gpu selection. I have also considered "control box" thing which connects to the ports of the host but i don't know if such product do exist. Any suggestions?

Hey. I am wondering about one thing. I travel a lot. Practically from one hotel to another. And I love gaming. I was thinking about one of Zotac Magnus PC's https://www.zotac.com/us/product/mini_pcs/magnus-en72070v But the thing is i would like to use it without display. I would like to use my laptop as a console for this PC. I have pretty nice 4K display in my laptop. I have tried to use Parsec but compression loss rate is real bad and i am wondering about deferment Solutions. I need it to work complacently offline. I am thinking about some USB or Thinderbolt HDMI Capture card but the ting is how to transfer mouse and keyboard. I do not need it for competitive gaming more like casual offline gaming. What do you think any suggestions ?

Hey guys, here is the idea, I am rack mounting my desktop, almost like Linus. However, as we all know they Corning has not released a Thunderbolt 3 optic cable yet and the length I need is something like $600 for the Thunderbolt 2 cable so I can only imagine how ridiculous the v3 cable would be. So I am considers HDBaseT (HDBT) extender, HDMI over Ethernet for those who may not know. The run will not be ridiculous maybe 50ft, the issue I have is that I am wanting an HDBT 2.0 adapter, but am struggling to find one. The reason I would like 2.0 specifically is native usb support and lower latency as I intend to play FPS games over it. I would greatly appreciate the help in finding these, the requirements is 4k 60hz/1080p 144hz over HDBT 2.0, now if any of you have experience with a regular ol' HDBT at 144hz and it works great even for gaming I am not opposed, thanks again. Here is the run down of the plan, rack mount the pc, switch, ups, nas/plex, and firewall in a separate room so I don't have to hear the roaring fans. Run the ethernet cable (HDBT), a active usb-c cable for that 3.1 goodness with a hub on the other end, loom it and neatly tuck it against the ceiling.

So I built a new gaming/workstation PC the specs are xeon e5 1650 3.2 GHz 12 MB cache 6 cores 12 threads 16 GB Ram a single Sapphire nitro RX 480 so i wanted to invite my cousin over now i sold him my old laptop that had an Intel core i3 350m 2GB ram Intel hd graphics 1366*786 60 Hz display of course this isn't a gaming laptop by any means so i wanted him to bring it over to my house and then i would make a virtual machine using virtualbox with windows 10 8GB ram 6 threads and then make him remotely control this machine from The Laptop so we can play minecraft together using LAN multiplayer and overwatch however there are some problems with this : first of all i want the virtual machine to use exactly half of the resources of the host i did this with the ram and CPU but i don't know how to do it on the GPU since in virtualbox you can only select the amount of vram so i don't know if this is going to make it like i have two 4gb RX480s or not then i want to know do i just install AMD Drivers or guest addition drivers note that i want both host and machine to give roughly the same gaming performance and if there are any other virtual machine creator that supports what i want better then please tell me then i want to know the best free remote server to install on virtual machine for minimum latency on the same network and i want it to support all versions of DirectX and vulkan and opengl or most of them at least thank you