If you are willing to tinker a bit and troubleshoot there is a way to passthrough a single GPU to a VM with minimal overhead. Took me a while to get working and requires a second device (laptop, phone) for the install. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTWf5D092VY
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As others has stated, what game is it? Depending on the answer you might not need to install Windows after all.
One of the handful of games where support is "borked" on protonDB because it uses kernel level anti-cheat and specifically disallows linux.
It's starting to seem really strange that you're being evasive. Not mentioning it in the OP, sure, it's not the relevant part and you're not obliged to share.
Writing long awkwardly worded sentences instead of answering a direct question of people trying to help you... several times?
Are you embarrassed by the game you're trying to play?
Yes.
I don't see how the game is relevant to the discussion.
It will have to be a mystery, although should be relatively easy to guess.
Why it matters is because there are different workarounds for different games. Some can run just fine in a VM. Others have wine tricks or proton tricks that you can use. Still others run dockerized on winboat.
Being evasive just means that people have to give you generalized solutions that may or may not work for your particular scenario. Help could exist for you, but you'll never know.
General solutions are what i want. There are no Linux workarounds for this game. Me naming the game would only derail the conversation even more than me not naming it already has. Thanks :)
I did that twenty-ish years ago. Linux was and is my OS, but I wanted to play Dungeon Keeper, so I installed Win98 just for this game to autostart in it, and auto-reboot afterwards.
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If you decide to go the dual-boot route with shared storage between windows and Linux, then I recommend using a btrfs partition. You'll have to install WinBtrfs to use it on windows, but the experience is a filesystem that's much better than ntfs on both windows and Linux.
Thanks for the tip! I've had some bad experience with ext4 drivers on windows, so good to here that the btrfs drivers are better.
Does the game run under Wine? That will let you avoid Proton, which is Steam specific. You can also configure network access for specific programs under Wine.
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There’s no such thing? You’ll have to install windows just like you installed Linux. I’m confused how you got Linux on your machine yet you’re asking this question-did someone else install it for you? If so, best to not mess around with repartitioning your drive. High likelihood of you screwing up your boot partition. Best to jam in another hard drive, unplug your Linux drive and go to town. Or heck, do what you want and learn :) breaking things is the best way to learn…
Just please back up all your files before you go crazy. You can’t permanently damage or break anything on your computer, but you CAN permanently delete files you cared about :)
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