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LookingGlass
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VirGL
Unfortunately AMD cards suffer from a reset bug, still.
The reset bug being that you can pass through the card fine, once. But if you try to pass it through again (or the card experiences an issue and needs to reset), they get caught in some kind of bad state and won’t work until power is removed and restored. Which requires a reboot or a only slightly less disruptive dance with system power states.
For vega and 5000 series gpu’s, there’s https://github.com/gnif/vendor-reset
Incidentally, nvidia gpus are so good at resetting, they’ve probably done so without you noticing. If the screen ever goes black for a fraction of a second and returns in normal usage, it was probably because it reset itself.
The lower 6000 series lower than the 6800’s for example may or may not have the issue. It seems most “reference” cards are fine, but custom vendor cards often but not always have issues. My reference 6700 works fine, but a sapphire 6700 probably won’t.
And the 7000 series is also fucky in a new way somehow. Gnif knows far more about this than me, and has basically thrown up his hands at how AMD doesn’t care. He’s made occasional posts about it on https://forum.level1techs.com/
Gnif is also responsible for Looking glass: https://github.com/gnif/LookingGlass
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Virtual Machine stinkyness
You could try LookingGlass. That may require two GPUs.
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scrcpy 2.0 is released, with audio support!
It's a pair of apps, one runs on a Windows virtual machine, the other on the host OS, that uses shared memory to copy a passed-through GPUs frame buffer. Runs fast enough to get 4k/120fps very low latency, so if you have a spare GPU you can game on it in Windows, from a Linux desktop. https://github.com/gnif/LookingGlass
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Can you make a passed through GPU display to a emulated display in virt-manager?
Check out https://github.com/gnif/LookingGlass if you can accept a separate window.
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looking glass doesn't detect my mouse
then everything looks normal. It's all up to EGL though, as looking-glass really doesn't have any code that handles image scaling (see here).
- Looking glass B6 released!
- AMD RX580 passthrough with looking glass doesn't work
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The Death of the PCIe Expansion Card
https://github.com/Arc-Compute/LibVF.IO/tree/master/ plus https://github.com/gnif/LookingGlass works pretty well. If you use an Intel GPU, particularly one of their new Arc dedicated GPUs, it supports the functionality on the consumer grade hardware without any trickery and you just need Looking Glass to map the outputs.
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Passing audio from 1 VM to another for final mixing?
I'd like to introduce you to Looking Glass as a much higher quality and lower latency alternative to NDI when you are trying to relay frames between virtual machines within the same computer. With a patched nvidia driver to enable nvfbc on the gaming VM there is almost zero performance penalty when capturing gameplay. It also has options for audio, which I don't use because they didn't exist when I was configuring my system. I have a similar use case (gaming and streaming) and hardware (5950X + two gpus). I am not using proxmox, however. My configuration using QEMU and libvirt has this XML:
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Looking Glass Beta 5 Released!
What stopping from tagging a stable release? The milestone has no open issues.
Magpie
- Legion Go Update 12.08.23
- Older VN's don't fullscreen correctly on my tv.
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If you are to game at 720p on a bigger resolution monitor, do you run it Fullscreen(= blurry but full-sized screen) or Windowed(= sharp but small screen)?
depending on the game, fsr(or dlss if you have the option) may be available in options to help you out, otherwise you could give a free option a go, such as Magpie
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[First Impression] ROG Ally and Ayaneo 2021 as RPG/Visual Novel machines
For games that won't go full screen, at least we have Magpie as a last resort. The experience won't be as seamless though...
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Downscaling resolution to 1080p is blurry
Another thing you can try is playing the game in a borderless window at a lower resolution and using Magpie to upscale it to fullscreen. Magpie offers a variety of upscaling options that can produce a less blurry image than the bilinear interpolation that is typically done when upscaling by the GPU or display.
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Live Upscale Videos On PC/Steam Deck
Configure VLC to play the video in an extra window with the same resolution as the video source and upscale the window to fit the screen. On Windows 10 the FSR upscaling can be achieved with Magpie. On the Steam Deck the system built-in FSR/CAS combination is used.
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How to black out rest of monitor when using a window/app that I don’t want to enlarge to full screen?
Something else that may also be of interest is Magpie. It's a tool to upscale windowed content into fullscreen with a variety of upscaling methods available.
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3d pc gaming nReal Air Works Great
also using enabled antialiasing in game settings (or even globally set in video driver) consume much less resources then rendering full size bigger resolution image for reducing aliasing. there are also such tools like Magpie (https://github.com/Blinue/Magpie/blob/main/README_EN.md) or Lossless Scaling tool from Steam. they enable FSR supersampling to any game on any GPU.
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[Linux Gaming] Y a-t-il quelque chose comme Magpie ou une échelle sans perte pour Linux?
https://github.com/blinue/magpie https://store.steampowed.com/app/993090/lossless_scaling/
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Bought the game and played last night…. Absolutely incredible……
To everything that the community has said, I also want to add that No Man's Sky has FSR tech (the game runs at a lower resolution and it's upscaled). You can use Magpie or even better, Losless Scaling to create a similar effect in SC and win some extra frames :)
What are some alternatives?
OSX-KVM - Run macOS on QEMU/KVM. With OpenCore + Monterey + Ventura + Sonoma support now! Only commercial (paid) support is available now to avoid spammy issues. No Mac system is required.
openvr_fsr - Add Image Upscaling via AMD FidelityFX SuperResolution or NVIDIA Image Scaling to SteamVR games
kvm-guest-drivers-windows - Windows paravirtualized drivers for QEMU\KVM
Magpie - English Translation of Magpie
barrier - Open-source KVM software
FidelityFX-FSR - FidelityFX Super Resolution
sndcpy - Android audio forwarding (scrcpy, but for audio)
waifu2x - Image Super-Resolution for Anime-Style Art
QtScrcpy - Android real-time display control software
Proton - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
nyxt - Nyxt - the hacker's browser.
ShaderGlass - Overlay for running GPU shaders on top of Windows desktop