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- Jan 3, 2005
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- Guildford, England
Hi,
I am building a new rig and likely swap my surface pro in my lounge out for a shield android tv. (then sell my surface pro)
Currently the wife and I play some games together ( usually something like civ 5 - rarely anything very graphically intensive).
However if I get rid of the surface pro I will only have 1 PC in the house. I was wondering if it is at all possible to set up a VM. Run 1 copy of steam and Civ on the VM, split to 1 monitor (with a separate keyboard/mouse) and then run a 2nd version on the local PC.
I would want it set up so my PC has 100% of its resources until I boot up the VM, then it can have 50% of my cpu cores and 50% of my memory. However it will only have 1 Nvidia GPU at its heart (exact card undecided at the moment, but lets say a 980 as an example).
The 980 I feel is more than capable of running 2 versions of this game, even if I have to compromise on video settings slightly, its just a question of weather modern day VM applications can share the GPU grunt or not.
Thanks in advance
I am building a new rig and likely swap my surface pro in my lounge out for a shield android tv. (then sell my surface pro)
Currently the wife and I play some games together ( usually something like civ 5 - rarely anything very graphically intensive).
However if I get rid of the surface pro I will only have 1 PC in the house. I was wondering if it is at all possible to set up a VM. Run 1 copy of steam and Civ on the VM, split to 1 monitor (with a separate keyboard/mouse) and then run a 2nd version on the local PC.
I would want it set up so my PC has 100% of its resources until I boot up the VM, then it can have 50% of my cpu cores and 50% of my memory. However it will only have 1 Nvidia GPU at its heart (exact card undecided at the moment, but lets say a 980 as an example).
The 980 I feel is more than capable of running 2 versions of this game, even if I have to compromise on video settings slightly, its just a question of weather modern day VM applications can share the GPU grunt or not.
Thanks in advance