Which is the best VM performance-wise for porn games

[alma001]

I am using a computer also used by others sometimes so I am consuming porn games on a virtual machine. I am using VMware Workstation 17 Player with a Windows 11 VM. This usually works fine but for some demanding games it is not enough.

I am more or less fine with that, but I am wondering whether others doing the same has better experience with other VMs or have some good config tricks to get the maximum out of VMware Player.

Thanks!

 

[PurpleDeep]

Make sure your CPU supports Hardware Virtualization, and that you have enabled it in the options. That should be enough for visual novels or RPGM games. The VM should also have enough RAM so that it does not use swap. For very graphically demanding games, you will probably want to use a hypervisor that supports PCI passthrough so the VM can use the host's GPU. Unfortunately, setting up PCI passthrough is not always easy.

 

[Meaning Less]

If your only reason for using a VM is because you share a computer with other people then don't.

Instead make a DUAL BOOT drive, that way whenever you want to use the pc you just boot into your own drive/partition under your own password and you won't have to sacrifice any performance.

 

[skwada]

I've tried all the major free virtualization software available for Windows: Hyper-V, Virtual Box, VMWare Player. I'd say Hyper-V is the best by far in terms of performance and features:

1. Supports GPU pass-through, though it's annoying to enable (neither of the other two support this), and generally has better performance. I think because it is built-in to Windows maybe it has less overhead
2. Headless mode (i.e. run the VM in the background with no GUI)
3. Pausing is instantaneous and immediately hides the VM GUI from your screen - I remember VBox taking a while and VMWare is sometimes instant and other times slow as shit
4. Can create checkpoints of the hard disk (VBox has this, VMWare does not)
5. Can easily disable networking (my attempts at doing this with the others is fuzzy but remember it being a pain in the ass)
6. Has a CLI available for custom automation (VBox has this too, VMWare does not for the free version)

The only downside is it requires Windows Pro. If you don't have Pro and aren't willing to buy it (costs literally $2 through the right websites) then VMWare Player was the second best in my exp

Oh yeah word of advice for anyone trying to use Hyper-V: use a Windows Pro image for your guest VM to have support for enhanced mode - it is absolutely necessary to get the best experience