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#307

There are several messages for “not big enough” which one exactly are you getting?

#308

Well, no, I don’t, was just an exaggerated value :stuck_out_tongue:

#309

Sorry, I tried to reproduce the situation I had before and this time I had no such error.

#310

Hey There

First off just want to say thank you so much gnif for providing this amazing work on looking glass! :smiley:

Been a long time VFIO passthrough user and decided to give looking glass a shot, previously my install was using a linux host to passthrough my main GPU to various different virtual machines, Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Illumos and Androidx86.

Normally I’d just switch different inputs or use the Picture in Picture mode on my monitor but looking glass makes the input switching alot easier now. :smiley:

My build is almost 6 years old now but still goes strong and works perfectly fine (if anyone has an older platform similar, I can confirm Sandy Bridge E works):
CPU: i7 3960X
Memory: 32GB DDR3 1866MHz
Motherboard: Asrock X79 Extreme 9
GPU Host: GTX 960
GPU Passthrough: Titan X

Gotta couple of questions: (and sorry if getting support for certain operating systems is bit sketchy haha),

Are there any plans for support of looking glass drivers working on other guest machines? Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X (might be a stretch) etc? I would be certainly more than happy to help get working

I think I might be doing something a little bit dumb here but I’m trying to get the looking glass host program to autostart for login? I’m getting an error in command prompt:

"Unable to configure a capture device
An error occurred, re-run in foreground mode (-f) for more information

Press enter to terminate…"

Again amazing work, looking forward to using looking glass! :smiley:

#311

DXGI isn’t allowed on login-screen and secure desktop screens like confirmation for admin execution of a program.
I would enable auto-login (bypassing password) and run the host application on login.

#312

Ah righto, will have to investigate something to auto login on this machine as I do connect remotely to my works domain controller over a VPN. Or else just keep switching monitor inputs/use PIP mode for login if that’s too insecure.

Also not sure if this is covered already but stuff like UAC prompts don’t come up? Not sure if there’s a fix or just disable it?

I am having a bit of tearing/choppy issues, its not too bad but just wondering if its maybe my hardware or something incorrectly configured. Was using unigine valley benchmark to test and noticed a bit of stutter. Maybe something on the host isn’t right?

Cheers,

#313

They are on the Secure Desktop, please read though: https://looking-glass.hostfission.com/node/7

Working on it… turn off anti-aliasing, it doesn’t play nice with DXGI

#314

Ah is that what’s causing it, I played around and enabled MFAA in the NVidia settings and that seems to help massively with stutter on anti-aliasing :smiley:

EDIT: It’s practically perfect now, I’m guessing this for Maxwell and newer GPUs

#315

Is that anti-aliasing issue specific to the Unigine Valley benchmark, or is it generally a problem with all games? Asking because anti-aliasing is pretty important.

#316

I noticed stuttering issues with AA on in Overwatch and D2, so I’d venture to guess that it’s a general issue.

#317

Unfortunatly its across the board, hardware AA such as FXAA is fine, but old school super sampling AA seems to cause quite a substantial slowdown.

This bottleneck seems to be in either the driver or the Windows DXGI DD API, there is little we can do about it.

#318

I deliberately turn AA off in all my games anyway, it looks gross.

#319

Personally I really like it when the game does it right, unfortunatly most dont.

#320

I dunno I would rather just respect that a game is a computer game and look at the jaggies rather than think my eyes are failing slowly due to lack of sharpness on objects and much worse performance. AMD cards have never been good at applying AA anyway.

AA in BF1 looks like utter trash.

#321

Are there recommended ones now?

#322

By the way. you can add the shared memory device to a libvirt domain natively without qemu args like this:

<shmem name='looking-glass'>
    <model type='ivshmem-plain'/>
    <size unit='M'>32</size>
    <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x0a' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
</shmem>

Maybe you can include that in the documentation, it might be easier for some people. It translates to the following qemu args:

    -object memory-backend-file,id=shmmem-shmem0,mem-path=/dev/shm/looking-glass,size=33554432,share=yes 
    -device ivshmem-plain,id=shmem0,memdev=shmmem-shmem0,bus=pci.10,addr=0x2```
#323 
```XML
    <whatever argument="youneed">
        <option>
        </option>
    </whatever>
```
#324

for the problem of no display detection in the windows guest causing the resolution to default to 1024x768, it looks like a couple registry tweaks should work as an alternative to having to use a dummy connector.

i did some googling and poking around in the registry in windows 10. and it looks like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers\Configuration\ should have the relevant keys for display resolution settings for the various video out configurations windows has detected.

for me, \NOEDID_1A03_2000_0000000B_00000000_0^3B055267EA1D3037447EEC960EDDCAE3\00 looks to be the sub key for the simulated safe resolution display for when windows doesnt detect a display. it has PrimSurfSize.cx and PrimSurfSize.cy values of 1024 and 768 respectively. it also has another \00 sub key with values DwmClipBox.bottom and DwmClipBox.right that look like they’d need to be changed from 1024 and 768 respectively as well.

note: i havent tested any of this at all, just thought i’d mention it (still waiting on a good deal on an AMD card to run as my host gpu to take the plunge and ditch windows as my host OS)

edit: spun up a windows 10 VM real quick and tested those edits (started the vm headless with auto sign in enabled for the windows user, and connected to it with teamviewer) , and changing those registry values for the relevant key worked like a charm. not sure if having a separate graphics drivers installed in the guest will effect anything, but it doesnt seem like it should. someone should definitely give those tweaks a go and see if it works in a proper environment.

#325

Is it normal that I got low UPS when GPU is under heavy load? For example I got 30-40FPS in Unigine Heaven but <= 10 UPS in looking glass client.

#326

Can’t compile git head:

gcc -c -g -O3 -std=gnu99 -march=native -Wall -Werror -I./ -I../common -DDEBUG -DATOMIC_LOCKING -ffast-math -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/SDL2 -I/usr/include/libdrm -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/spice-1 -DBUILD_VERSION='"a10-16-gbebbdc4089"' -o .build/decoders/h264.o decoders/h264.c
decoders/h264.c: In function ‘lgd_h264_initialize’:
decoders/h264.c:199:7: error: ‘VAProfileH264Baseline’ is deprecated [-Werror=deprecated-declarations]
       VAProfileH264Baseline,
       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/va/va_glx.h:28:0,
                 from decoders/h264.c:28:
/usr/include/va/va.h:345:5: note: declared here
     VAProfileH264Baseline va_deprecated_enum = 5,
     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make: *** [Makefile:31: .build/decoders/h264.o] Error 1

Edit: Removing -Werror avoids this error and it compiles (couldn’t test it yet though).