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RX 550 enough to run a VMware rig for 2 people gaming

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That cannot be done. One running a VM in windows will present your first challenge. Windows only accepts one input at a time. Second even if you could the virtualized enviroment can only have 1 GPU to itself. So you would need 2 GPUs for that

I'm planning to make a VMware rig for me and my brother because it's tiring to wait for our turns in using the computer. So to save money in another rig and in electricity bills I came up with an idea of a VMware rig for 2 people. Here are the planned specs:

 

i7 3770

8 gb or 16 gb ram

Z77/Z68 motherboard

240 gb ssd and 1 tb hard drive

Sapphire RX 550 2gb (will upgrade after a few months)

 

Is this enough to play Middleearth shadow of war and fortnite battle royale in simuntaneously in 720p? Most of the games we're going to play is just esports or easy to run games. 

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You need to use a single GPU for each VM if your system/OS allows pass-through. 

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what vmware product?

 

You probably don't want vmware here. 

 

Id look at multipoint solutions here, but the 550 is still a bit slow.

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That cannot be done. One running a VM in windows will present your first challenge. Windows only accepts one input at a time. Second even if you could the virtualized enviroment can only have 1 GPU to itself. So you would need 2 GPUs for that

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ive just read that it is hard to accomplish this so I might not do it anymore, got a bit of hype there. Thanks for the replies

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