[vfio-users] What to put in virt-manager so GeForce Experience will "Optimize" my CPU?

Will Marler will at wmarler.com
Tue Jan 26 03:58:21 UTC 2016


No soup. Windows is only seeing 2-cores: http://imgur.com/tnOXfnx; perhaps
this is the problem, Windows sees 2, GeForce Exp expects/sees 4?

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 8:46 PM, Alex Williamson <
alex.l.williamson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Will Marler <will at wmarler.com> wrote:
>
>> Oh man, I got really excited for a second, but something's still missing.
>> GeForce Experience now sees "Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690 CPU @3.50GHz" but it
>> still says it can't optimize: http://imgur.com/quS5Isk
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 8:34 PM, Alex Williamson <
>> alex.l.williamson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 8:30 PM, Will Marler <will at wmarler.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure this is a big deal, but idk, I guess I like to cross t's &
>>>> dot i's.
>>>>
>>>> The nVidia GeForce Experience says it cannot optimize games on my
>>>> guest, because the CPU is "Haswell". But afaict, this is a supported chip.
>>>> I'm guessing there's something with the way the chip is being passed in
>>>> that's affecting this, and I'm hoping it's simple; does anyone know?
>>>>
>>>> GeForce Experience Screenshot: http://imgur.com/5yRYf9A
>>>> my XML file pastebin: http://pastebin.com/nB3DPkEr
>>>>
>>>
>>> Replace host-model with host-passthrough
>>>
>>
> It probably doesn't like the lack of CPU topology, it looks like a dual
> socket, single core processor.  It might also require 4-core, I don't
> remember.  Try:
>
>    <vcpu placement='static'>4</vcpu>
>
>   <cpu mode='host-passthrough'>
>     <topology sockets='1' cores='4' threads='1'/>
>   </cpu>
>
> If that works, try going back to 2.
>
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