Easiest GPU for pass-through?

Querzion · February 16, 2020, 5:11pm

Gaming, perhaps some programming using Visual Studio Community, but I can use the Visual Studio Code editor in POP!_OS, it’s enough, for me if I’m to write some homepages, and at the moment, I’m trying to learn how to integrate C# code in HTML5 webpages, so… Nah just gaming. Will be using it as a pure gaming machine. I do wonder about space for games though.

I use this…

The problem here is that I have been thinking of passing the 8TB HDD, for installation of lighter games, that isn’t in need of shorter loading times. I also have a 250GB SSD, that is just laying around on my desk at the moment. So Basically, I have the Host system on the 1TB m.2, I install the guests on here too as a chunk, and GTAV, FINAL FANTASY XV, FINAL FANTASY XIV, DOOM(Which can be played on the host.), NIOH, Are basically the games that needs shorter loading times, and they are 60+90+60+60+75 GB. So I might actually have to dedicate about 500-600 GB of the NVMe just for big games. I have been thinking of buying a PCIe card that I can pass-through though, which i have 1 NVMe and 2 SATA m.2 cards on. That would solve my games library issue, then I have plans to build multiple NAS storages, using Raspberry Pi’s. haha Well back to the GPU ‘issue’.

I really really like AMD. My whole computer is built around that. I have been looking into the NAVI reset bug a little bit and found this,

Navi Reset Kernel Patch VFIO

Hi, PSA: Currently as of 10.11.2019 and Kernel 5.3.8 the Patch is included into Manjaro stable. If you use Manjaro with the 5.3. Kernel the Patch is already included! These threads from the Manjaro forum explained it for me: I have done a self compilation of the Kernel the first time myself for this patch. It is not much work on Manjaro and Arch in general. Find the correct sources: First you clone the repositories of the kernel source for the kernel you want to use from here: https://gitlab.manjaro.org/packages/core. So in this page I would recommend you go into the linux53 branch and then hit the blue clone-button and copy the “Clone via https”-link. You need the package “git” installed on your system. Clone the code: Use the terminal navigate to a folder of your choice and run “git clone https://gitlab.manjaro.org/packages/core/linux53.git”. You will have a new linux53 folder. These are the sources for the 5.3 Manjaro Kernel. Copy the code from the Navi patch into a file in the linux53 folder and name it navi.patch or something like this. Create a SHA256 Checksum of the “navi.patch” file with "shasum -a 256 and keep the checksum it generates Open the PKGBUILD file in the linux53 folder in a text editor: Change the line _kernelname=-MANJARO to something like _kernelname=-VFIO. You do this because it makes it easier to see that you use your patched Kernel when yo run uname -u and also avoids the case that when Manjaro publishes a newer kernel version that yours will be replaced with a newer but unpatched version. At the beginning of the file there is a list of files beginning with “source=(” and then listing all the files. At the End behind “‘0013-bootsplash.patch’” create an additional line before the braces close with ‘navi.patch’ or whatever you named your patch file. Directly below the sources part in the PKGBUILD file is the “sha256sums=(”-part with the sha256 checksums. Because you added the navi.patch as the last file in the…

so hopefully, I will be able to use a 5600 XT without a problem, if I had the money, then I would had saved for the 5700 XT directly, since I will lose some GPU power because of the pass-through.