what vm should I use to play on the ESEA Client?

#1

ICL

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so KevinIsPwn has told me a few people use VMs to play on the ESEA Client. What should I use, and would they actually work?

edit: i will also be using tf2

so KevinIsPwn has told me a few people use VMs to play on the ESEA Client. What should I use, and would they actually work?

edit: i will also be using tf2

#2

Cerdur

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https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

i've never tried running the esea client on one, but this seems like the go-to VM.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

i've never tried running the esea client on one, but this seems like the go-to VM.

#3

Karl

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I use virtual box on my desktop since I'm too lazy to install linux on it, and it has always worked fine for me, although I have not used anything resource intensive like tf2 inside the VM

#4

twiikuu

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What benefits do you think you'll acquire by running the ESEA Client in a Virtual Machine?

Virtualization adds a lot of overhead to the interactions from the VM to your hardware, I don't think TF2 will be playable on one.

What benefits do you think you'll acquire by running the ESEA Client in a Virtual Machine?

Virtualization adds a lot of overhead to the interactions from the VM to your hardware, I don't think TF2 will be playable on one.

#5

Cerdur

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TwiiKuuWhat benefits do you think you'll acquire by running the ESEA Client in a Virtual Machine?

Virtualization adds a lot of overhead to the interactions from the VM to your hardware, I don't think TF2 will be playable on one.

he probably has a mac, and IIRC the esea client is only for windows

[quote=TwiiKuu]What benefits do you think you'll acquire by running the ESEA Client in a Virtual Machine?

Virtualization adds a lot of overhead to the interactions from the VM to your hardware, I don't think TF2 will be playable on one.[/quote]

he probably has a mac, and IIRC the esea client is only for windows

#6

Hedge

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u probably want to read about gpu passthrough idk
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/2z0evz/gpu_passthrough_or_how_to_play_any_game_at_near/

#7

yttrium

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as long as you have vt-d and manage to get gpu passthrough working then a VM isn't horrible

#8

drshdwpuppet

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why not dual boot? I use linux as my day to day OS and even play scrims on linux, then switch to a (tiny) windows partition for other games/tf2.

Prolly much easier and less work/hassle/performance decrease than a VM

why not dual boot? I use linux as my day to day OS and even play scrims on linux, then switch to a (tiny) windows partition for other games/tf2.

Prolly much easier and less work/hassle/performance decrease than a VM

#9

nonagono

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drshdwpuppetwhy not dual boot?

I strongly recommend this too. For GPU passthrough you need to have a compatible gpu, cpu and motherboard, fiddle with bios settings, compile the linux kernel with special options and spit over your left shoulder three times. Dual booting is way easier.

[quote=drshdwpuppet]why not dual boot?[/quote]

I strongly recommend this too. For GPU passthrough you need to have a compatible gpu, cpu and motherboard, fiddle with bios settings, compile the linux kernel with special options and spit over your left shoulder three times. Dual booting is way easier.

#10

arcadia

RGL.gg

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My teammates from last season had linux and said it was a bannable offense to run esea client through a vm, iirc