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
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
i've never tried running the esea client on one, but this seems like the go-to VM.
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
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.
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
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/
as long as you have vt-d and manage to get gpu passthrough working then a VM isn't horrible
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
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.