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I assume no based on your comment, but have you ever run into issues where your vfio setup didn’t work with AAA games with intense anti cheat? Like cs:go/cs2 or valorant? That’s what’s always held me back

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Not all, but many, of these can be avoided with edits to the libvirt XML. Some things just rely on seeing hyper-v extensions. Others use more indicators.

Since you mention CS - I had ESEA working and they're notably difficult to bypass. Valorant was the only game I couldn't figure out that I had tried. Destiny was fine.

Past tense because I've chosen liberty instead - not playing anything with invasive AC, dropping Windows, and running Linux full time

I haven't so far. CS:GO and now CS2 run natively on Linux, so never played those online in the VM. I hear Valorant's anticheat is trouble, but I haven't played it (and probably won't for that reason; personally I have so many other games left to play I'd probably just do that instead of having to install Windows on a separate boot drive).

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