VirtualBox 7.0.0 has better 3D support
Is it good enough for games? It uses DXVK on non Windows hosts. So probably not much better then using Proton or Wine, possibly worse.
But can you play games with anti cheat that refuse to offer Proton support?
I don’t want to use Windows at all, nor waste space for it. So Proton and Wine is good enough for me. If the game doesn’t work in Linux using Proton, Wine, or native, the game isn’t worth a penny.
Also, I can just play games on my PS5 instead.
Since it’s DirectX 11, does that mean it has no support for OpenGL or Vulkan? Cause if it does, you could run Linux in it, and get 3D support. If you need to test something.
I suppose VirtualBox’s new 3D support could help devs.
So I guess, you might not need two GPUs anymore. A dedicated GPU for the VM has benefits though. Like using DirectX without DXVK.
But I remember playing a game on an Intel MacBook of some kind, with a shitty integrated Intel GPU, the Mac version required a better GPU, but the game worked in Parallels, running Windows. I sold that Mac for an iPad, shouldn’t have done so. I ended up not using or keeping the iPad, and getting very little for the iPad. The phone I got sucked, thought it had a dual core CPU, but I don’t think it did. And I don’t think that would have made it any better anyways. The single core performance might matter more on phones.
Is it available in the Manjaro repo yet? Not that I need it for anything. I’ll still install it, in case I ever need it for something. Perhaps there’s some other new feature I want.