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Most games work just fine, just a few odd ones that decided to block VMs don't such as Tarkov.

Known to work without issue are titles such as

  * PUBG
  * Battlefield 1/3/4/5
  * Titanfall 1&2
  * Arma 3
  * 7 Days to Die
  * Ark
  * Fortnite
  * Apex
  * Halo: The Master Chief Collection
  * Star Wars Squadrons

And many many more.

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The only games I play are Doom Eternal and Starcraft 2 — by chance do you know if those work or if there’s a list somewhere?

No idea about doom, but Starcraft 2 works for me fine.

SC2 works almost perfectly under Wine/Proton.

Only issue is that a few custom maps crash, and there's a weird, minor performance issue at some point in the LOTV campaign menus (but not the game itself). Haven't had an issue in a ladder game in years. And I play SC2 a lot (too much).

"Almost" is the key word here, under a VFIO VM, it's 100% flawless.

I recently finished the single player campaign on Doom Eternal - that worked perfect, though i havent tried multiplayer.

Really, is that why Tarkov drops me when I try to start a match? At least CS:GO told me their anti-cheat hated my setup (Windows 10 in a Xenserver VM) and I was able to get a refund.

CS:GO works fine in a libvirt/KVM VM last I checked. As for Tarkov, see: https://mobile.twitter.com/TheBattlEye/status/12890276721867...

Note that the game vendor selects what features they want to apply to their titles that are available. BattlEye allows you to stop people using VMs, if the game vendor opts in to this stupid feature.

Does running CS:GO in a VM impact trust factor? Trust and prime are pretty much the only thing to reduce cheaters encountered in your matches since CS:GO does not have a working anti-cheat.

Likely. There were some hacks in the last year or so that required looking glass.

Doesn’t CS:GO run on Linux? I exclusively play dota 2 on Linux and it performs better than in Windows imo.

it does, but you can only play matchmaking AFAIK, ESEA and FaceIT don't support linux for their anti-cheats.

Interesting, I didn't even know you had external parties providing league based (I'm guessing) match making. All matches in Dota 2 run through the official valve coordinator or are pre-made lobbies. There is a LAN only build iirc, but not widely available to the public.

Add Overwatch and Trackmania 2020 to this list too, they both work flawlessly.

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