[SOLVED] VHD for gaming?

[Gaming4ever]

I want to create VHD that'll only be used for gaming. Goal is to keep OS as clean as possible. I plan to boot to the VHD. I've read that VHD doesn't have direct access to hardware, which would render the VHD not suitable. Can someone please confirm this? If not true, would very much appreciate what resources I should use. Thank you!

 

[USAFRet]

I want to create VHD that'll only be used for gaming. Goal is to keep OS as clean as possible. I plan to boot to the VHD. I've read that VHD doesn't have direct access to hardware, which would render the VHD not suitable. Can someone please confirm this? If not true, would very much appreciate what resources I should use. Thank you!

Gaming through a VM/VHD is subpar.
It will NOT have the same access to hardware.

But...booting directly from this VHD might work. Maybe.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...oot--add-a-virtual-hard-disk-to-the-boot-menu
https://medium.com/tech-jobs-academy/how-to-boot-your-pc-from-a-vhd-365394a751cf


Also, question:
"Goal is to keep OS as clean as possible. " ? What is the primary reason for this?
Adding complexity, to what end?

 

[kerberos_20]

vhd is for virtual pc, which is by its name "virtual"...
but u can get gpu hardware access through ,IOMMU which needs two GPUs, one for pc itself (can be cpu integrated), second for VM for gaming, etc
its not one click setup, requires some pc skill

on another side, u can just install second copy of windows on second drive, thats easy for maintaining it

 

[Gaming4ever]

Gaming through a VM/VHD is subpar.
It will NOT have the same access to hardware.

But...booting directly from this VHD might work. Maybe.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...oot--add-a-virtual-hard-disk-to-the-boot-menu
https://medium.com/tech-jobs-academy/how-to-boot-your-pc-from-a-vhd-365394a751cf


Also, question:
"Goal is to keep OS as clean as possible. " ? What is the primary reason for this?
Adding complexity, to what end?

"clean as possible" meaning I want to achieve the best FPS / performance. I have bunch of apps that start on boot, and I'm assuming that this is why my gaming performance is stuttering / subpar FPS

 

[USAFRet]

"clean as possible" meaning I want to achieve the best FPS / performance. I have bunch of apps that start on boot, and I'm assuming that this is why my gaming performance is stuttering / subpar FPS

And I can't possibly imagine that going through a VHD is the answer.

Discover the actual problem (if one exists), and fix that.

What hardware, what apps, what games, what FPS is "subpar"?

 

[Math Geek]

right, turn off all that crap that starts up. that's the answer for you.

use autoruns

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns

this will show you everything starting up with windows. turn off anything you don't need and it will free up a lot of resources. first though uninstall all that windows bloat as well. it just takes up space and also wastes resources sitting in the background. that's how you tweak windows a bit for performance sake.