Gaming instability ESXi 6.7u3b, TR 1950x

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Docop

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I'm passing a 7750 and a Quadro P4000 and a 2200 with an Highpoint usb car and a single 2 port renessa usb card. All pass wonderfully. But best performance are with a 4vcpu max and efficient with 9g of ram on gaming vm. 9 or 12g, no diff really on the fps. And got other linux web surf and nas server all running as well.
 

IamSpartacus

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Have any of you seen anything like this? This is what happens when I try to select my GTX 1660 for passthrough. I've tried this in every browser and it does the same thing across all of them.

 

PsyberFyre

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Have any of you seen anything like this? This is what happens when I try to select my GTX 1660 for passthrough. I've tried this in every browser and it does the same thing across all of them.

Yep. Had the same issue with my first install of ESXi for some unknown reason. I did a fresh install for another, unrelated issue and it fixed it. vCenter did not show the same behavior, but ESXi 6.7 U3b did.
 

IamSpartacus

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Yep. Had the same issue with my first install of ESXi for some unknown reason. I did a fresh install for another, unrelated issue and it fixed it. vCenter did not show the same behavior, but ESXi 6.7 U3b did.
Wonderful. Guess I'm SoL then as I'm not trying to use vCenter for a single server.
 

PsyberFyre

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Assuming you installed ESXi to a USB or SD card or other removable media, or if you can simply remove the drive you installed to, you can try a reinstall on new external media and see if it fixes it. If it doesn't, revert back to your old install.
 

IamSpartacus

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Assuming you installed ESXi to a USB or SD card or other removable media, or if you can simply remove the drive you installed to, you can try a reinstall on new external media and see if it fixes it. If it doesn't, revert back to your old install.
This is a fresh install. I have no old install to go back to. I'm trying this to see if it's at all worth it to migrate from Unraid to ESXi (with Unraid as a VM) but it's not looking promising.
 

besterino

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This happens to me too. It’s annoying but try switching Passthrough on once you got one (or more) entries of the 1660 and reboot. After reboot all devices relating to the 1660 should be in passthrough mode.

Very annoying but no deal breaker.

Alternatively, edit/etc/vmware/esx.conf and change for the 1660 decives „vmkernel“ to „passthru“.