Comment by m463 | Hacker News Reader

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I have a windows 11 VM under proxmox for gaming

- I bought windows 11 retail on a USB stick. (before the AI nonsense, etc)

- I run windows in a VM without a network interface. This eliminates SO MANY PROBLEMS. microsoft being problem #1

- I disabled all nonsense, windows defender was slightly harder

- I share a drive with linux (only one booted at once)

- linux runs lgogodownloader to load all my gog games onto the shared drive

- I install the games under windows from the shared drive

- someday I might change shared drive to virtiofs

- gpu passthrough

- I pass through an entire USB controller for audio, and plug in a USB schiit dac + headphones. passing the controller is key for glitchless audio

- some day maybe I'll figure out a steam VM. like maybe connect stuff once, download game for offline play, then take it off the network forever. Maybe have VMs for collections of games.

> download game for offline play, then take it off the network forever.

From rough memory, even in offline mode Steam requires people to re-auth after... um... I think it's every 7 days?

Not sure about the timeframe, but it's one of those things where you can't be offline "forever".

Do you only play singleplayer games?

In the windows vm yes.

have you tried using proton//steam on linux lately? I find almost every game I want to play actually works decently well now. The ones that don't are multiplayer/online ones that require some sort of anti-cheat.

There are a few games I've found that don't work under Proton. Rome 2 Total War crashes frequently, Battletech ( the tactics game from a decade or so ago) doesn't always launch and has sound issues, and MechWarrior 5 joystick support doesn't work (the game is fine if you do another input method, but I'm not gonna play a sim game and not use my nice joystick). The instances of games which don't work in Proton are thankfully few and far between, but unfortunately it isn't just games with anticheat rootkits.

Why?

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