Virtual machine for gaming

[German_John]

Hello everybody,

 

so, I've discovered that some older games (particularly Knights of the Old Republic I) just won't run on Windows 10. I've tried all the fixes, nothing. 

But they will run no problem on Linux with Windows-Steam installed through Play On Linux... it's just that my Linux laptop is not very powerful, and even in Kotor I have to turn down settings a little bit. Not ideal. 

 

Could I just install an Ubuntu VM on my main machine and Windows-Steam through POL there? Or would I run into issues with, say, 3D acceleration? Asking ahead because I really don't wanna go through that just to discover it doesn't work at all...

 

Cheers,

John

[Aleks NE]

13 minutes ago, German_John said:

Hello everybody,

 

so, I've discovered that some older games (particularly Knights of the Old Republic I) just won't run on Windows 10. I've tried all the fixes, nothing. 

But they will run no problem on Linux with Windows-Steam installed through Play On Linux... it's just that my Linux laptop is not very powerful, and even in Kotor I have to turn down settings a little bit. Not ideal. 

 

Could I just install an Ubuntu VM on my main machine and Windows-Steam through POL there? Or would I run into issues with, say, 3D acceleration? Asking ahead because I really don't wanna go through that just to discover it doesn't work at all...

 

Cheers,

John

 

The is not point in installing ubuntu as a vm because you can dual boot it it does everything for you all you do is select how much hard drive space you give it(also on vm's you don't get all your laptops power as it's running two OS's at the same time), So if you're playing older games on ubuntu just dual boot it, i just kept my gaming pc on 8.1 for older games. Also in the properties of the file you can launch the game in different compatiblity mode i.e Windows 7 or something older.

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running wine on a virtual machine would have terrible performance, youd be better off with windows xp

[German_John]

1 hour ago, <Aleks> said:

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I'd like to avoid dual-booting, so I can more easily free up the space on my SSD again when I've played the stuff. I don't feel like screwing around with partitions and so on.

 

1 hour ago, SCHISCHKA said:

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Well, my Linux laptop has an Ivy Bridge i3 and no GPU, my main one is a Haswell i7 and 860m - would the virtualisation kill the difference? Cause that's mostly why I'm asking...

[Aleks NE]

Just now, German_John said:

I'd like to avoid dual-booting, so I can more easily free up the space on my SSD again when I've played the stuff. I don't feel like screwing around with partitions and so on.

 

Well, my Linux laptop has an Ivy Bridge i3 and no GPU, my main one is a Haswell i7 and 860m - would the virtualisation kill the difference? Cause that's mostly why I'm asking...

It will make you get less FPS and you'll have to lower all your settings, A VM makes your laptop run twice as hard, but you can try. It should work but be a bit slow.

[German_John]

2 minutes ago, <Aleks> said:

It will make you get less FPS and you'll have to lower all your settings, A VM makes your laptop run twice as hard, but you can try. It should work but be a bit slow.

Well, I guess I'll just try. 

I'm not terribly worried about the FPS, we're talking about a 2003 game here, and my panel is only 48Hz. So... that should work, at least at FHD.

Thanks!

[Aleks NE]

Just now, German_John said:

Well, I guess I'll just try. 

I'm not terribly worried about the FPS, we're talking about a 2003 game here, and my panel is only 48Hz. So... that should work, at least at FHD.

Thanks!

No problem, if you decide to dual boot just PM me i can help you if you want.

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30 minutes ago, German_John said:

I'd like to avoid dual-booting, so I can more easily free up the space on my SSD again when I've played the stuff. I don't feel like screwing around with partitions and so on.

 

Well, my Linux laptop has an Ivy Bridge i3 and no GPU, my main one is a Haswell i7 and 860m - would the virtualisation kill the difference? Cause that's mostly why I'm asking...

The problem with games in a vm is the graphics require hardware acceleration via the gpu. If you have a spare gpu lying around you could do vga pass through. I think you should try windows Xp in virtual box coz the free version has 3D acceleration and kotor was from the xp era

[German_John]

3 hours ago, <Aleks> said:

No problem, if you decide to dual boot just PM me i can help you if you want.

I've dual booted before, it's just that I *can* play the games on my other machine, just with a few downgrades that wouldn't bother me all that much...

 

3 hours ago, SCHISCHKA said:

The problem with games in a vm is the graphics require hardware acceleration via the gpu. If you have a spare gpu lying around you could do vga pass through. I think you should try windows Xp in virtual box coz the free version has 3D acceleration and kotor was from the xp era

Hm, interesting. It's a laptop though, so no spare GPUs there. 

 

Although thinking about it, I do have my old desktop that I wanted to dual boot for ages... maybe this is what will finally send me over the edge