grAfterburner VS IddSampleDriver

For the last year, I have been focusing on different parts of a project I have wanted to perfect for a long time - building a VM dedicated and optimized for gaming. With the fundamental parts of the project functioning very well (it can currently play most modern games at High settings while maintaining a stable 60FPS, I also use it to play all my VR titles via my Quest 2), I decided to spend the last couple weeks focusing on monitoring, integrating as much as I could in to my current Grafana setup. I found a great project (https://github.com/RafhaanShah/grAfterburner) which utilizes collectd to grab metrics from Afterburner and its remote server, which is then available to Graphite / Grafana. Since my server rack lives in a detached garage I wanted a quick and easy way to check the current temperature of the GPU, which this setup does great.

grAfterburner

Here you go link

Not the same one but I used https://github.com/RafhaanShah/grAfterburner because I wanted fps/frame time.

Get a dummy plug and mirror your monitor to it, or use this https://github.com/ge9/IddSampleDriver essentially the same thing but on a software level.

Indirect Display Driver

This is the way to go. In addition, you can setup a virtual display (I'm using [this](https://github.com/ge9/IddSampleDriver)) so you don't even need a monitor plugged in.

Honestly I'd reccomend moonlight with sunshine - although I can't say I've tested more than nvenc myself - it supports multiple encoders beyond nvec, and has a lot more performance tuning options ideal for a high bandwidth connection like a virtual bridge (which parsec is a bit less optimized for, and looks a bit blockier). It also doesn't need an online authentication, but still needs a dummy plug or this black magic

What is your host system? Since ESXI recognizes it and you could enable pass through without issue I’m thinking it is not BIOS related. I previously had issues with a different GPU on ESXI and it was immediately apparent something was wrong when you went to enable pass through (the checkboxes in the panel would go crazy, turned out to be a GPU map issue in ESXI). As for the display, it shouldn’t be necessary considering in its default state the M40 is intended for compute / CUDA tasks. Eventually you will need a display obviously, but out of the box if you’re just trying to confirm the GPU has loaded without issue a display is not necessary. For the display driver, I’m using IddSampleDriver, which works well (no HDR support, fyi)

Indirect Display Driver Sample

this theoretically should work too, tho I haven't yet gotten around to trying