On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:40 AM, <loleni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! I'm a beginner and maybe ask a stupid question. I know that Qubes OS > itself does not support 3D graphics. But can I play games (Steam) if I > connect to Qubes Whonix as a virtual machine? It's a Linux distribution and > it itself supports Steam. Here it is about Qubes + Whonix: > https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Qubes. > Thank you!
Steam itself works no problem (I've used it in a StandaloneVM). Games are hit and miss. Software rendering performance seemed high enough for most 2d games and even some old / non-demanding 3d games (ancient Unreal games were "playable"). Really can't say I've spent a lot of time playing them though, it was more an afternoon project of "Hmm... I wonder if this works..." than anything else. I'm not a gamer, and my tolerance for poor gaming performance is quite likely higher than most. Input grabbing is indeed an issue though as Vit points out. I should mention this was all on linux, with Windows-only things run in Wine. I never personally tried on windows HVMs, but they seem somewhat sluggish even for basic non-game tasks so I'd imagine it wouldn't be great unless you passed through a dedicated GPU and USB controller with separate input devices or something. Cheers, Jean-Philippe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CABQWM_D5Q9RN1kA8oj-ukumrqWTGQuE%3DAL3R40cbZS_ihD1EKw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
