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Re:Valve is developing Steam for Linux, says Michael Larabel... by codesuela on Wednesday April 25, 2012 @06:09AM (#3888410)
Games are the only thing you can't run with good performance inside a VM. That's why you can always spin up a Windows VM if you need Photoshop but you HAVE to reboot if you want to enjoy a game. So yes, this would be definitely a game changer
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Re:Valve is developing Steam for Linux, says Michael Larabel... by freehunter on Wednesday April 25, 2012 @08:34AM (#3888814)
I've had luck with VMWare and nvidia cards, as long as your processor supports virtulization. Near-native performance, minus the fact that you have Linux eating some of your resources. It gets pretty touchy though, and last time I tried it on an ATI card the drivers didn't support it.
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