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This is a really old post, dont really remember sorry. I will say, since then ive decided to work a little harder and pay for a second stand alone PC. lol. The VMs in unRaid work ok if you dont ask much of them but i was wasting too much time trying to get everything working. Build a quick VM and access it with Chrome remote desktop for simple stuff from another fully working PC would be my recommendation.

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First and foremost thanks for all the help this forum has been providing. im so nearly done tinkering with my unraid build but ive got (hopefully) one last really annoying issue. Its bad lag when gaming. To the point where racing and shooter games are completely unplayable and even casual story driven games are irritating. I used the VFIO-PCI CFG plugin to pass through one of the USB controllers of my motherboard. The gaming controller is running off that USB controller. I tried applying the accelerator in MSI_Utility (that worked with my sound) but it did not help the input delay. I read somewhere else that switching to SeaBIOS could fix the problem. I guess this is a two part question: 1) Is there anything else i can try to fix the lag other than switching the bios? 2) If i do need to change the bios, i will need to create a new VM. If i make a backup of my VDISK and the XML right before i delete the old VM, will i be able to pickup right where i left off in the "new" VM with SeaBIOS? Ive already paid to active windows and have lots of applications and settings changed in windows that i dont want to redo. Would this work in theory at least? I can almost guarantee at this point that it wont be that simple, easy or straight forward but if in theory it is supposed to be possible ill give it a try before my trial expires. The xbox controller is directly connected via wire to the motherboard (USB Bluetooth dongle is on order). The rest of the components can be found here if they matter.

Its taken me about 3 full weekends and after work every day to get this far, ive paid for a windows activation. It should be easy and it should not take long but so far everything else with unraid that should be quick and easy has been anything but.

FML....Reddit warned me agains unraid, i should have listened.

im not able to change my Bios to SeaBIOS? its grayed out. But yeah, i have the same issue and im very close to ditching unraid entirely because of it.

I've seen that video before but forgot about it. Thanks, that looks much easier.

Thanks for everyone's replies. It sounds like once i pass through a USB controllers on my motherboard i shouldn't have any issues so i tried to pass through and yeah, its just as straight forward and simple as every other step of this project...... @rachid596 You offering to help? lol I was following space invader's video but now im stuck. After trying for about 30 minutes to figure out putty i gave up and used the users script. Ive attached those below. The first time i ran the script i noticed that everything i had plugged in was on one controller, i shut down the box and moved USB cables to different ports and same story; everything on one controller (the 14 one). I shutdown again and moved the xbox controller to the ONE USB port that i had not yet tried and sure enough once i ran the script again it was showing the xbox controller with its own controller (9). So if im reading this crap correctly i only have two USB controllers on my motherboard, One of them (14) handles all the USB ports except one and does not reset. The second controller (9) is just one USB port and maybe a USB type c port (cant test that, dont have the correct wire) and it does reset. My questions : Should i try to pass one of the controllers to my VM and if so, which one? I could put the boot device on 9 and it would be by itself but doesnt my UPS also need to be left with unraid? If i pass 14 to the VM, the UPS would have to be on the VM. Only having one controller that "resets" is it more important that my VM ports reset ( i think this is the case) or does unraid OS need the port that resets? Im thinking maybe pass through 9 so i can have at least one USB hub in windows that resets for my wireless xbox controller or anything else i want to hot swap and leave everything else to unraid. I will have to use the web GUI to pass the Logitech wireless dongle but thats been working fine so far so no big deal. I unfortunately cant use a PCIE USB multiplier, the computer is in a custom case and there isnt room for it. Adventures in USB passthrough.txt

passing through a USB controller is on the to do list. I just watched the Space invader video and looks like its going to be fun.

Im surprised nobody has asked this yet (as far as i have found) but will the new xbox one wireless controllers (which connect via Bluetooth to PC) work in a windows VM? I know unRaid doesn't have drivers for Bluetooth but once im in the VM will i be able to connect my new generation xbox controller to just a standard Bluetooth USB dongle? If i can, should I? In my office computer i just use a wire, ive never tried a Bluetooth connection. The older xbox one controller require a proprietary USB connection to play on PC but i dont have any of those. I got my VM working with a wired controller but i wanted to ask before i bought an Active USB extension cable. Wireless would be much better for my living room.

Thanks for the help, i finally got around to messing with it again and both the wireless keyboard and the demonic sound appear to be fixed. I downloaded the Nvidia drivers for my GPU before running the acceleration fix and im not sure if thats what did it or not but it appears to be working great now. My next tasks are backing up my vdisk, (in the event i screw something up again) then trying to pass through a USB controller, then plex then remote access to my data. Ill probably ask this in a new post but i still cant figure out why it showing me out of storage space. I tried the turbo write option that was mentioned above, while changing all my settings to not use the cache, but it didnt work. I cant copy my vdisk until i figure this out. Ill keep researching before i bother the good people of Unraid or Reddit with another question though. (i wish there was a help hotline i could call....)

Thanks for the reply. I'll start tackling your recommendations as soon as I can. My current "off the shelf" solution is a few windows machines with a 2tb Apple Time Capsule and a raspberry pi running Kodi and Retro pi. With a few exceptions (PS1 emulator on retropie has Issues) my current setup took less than a weekend to set up and has been working beautifully for years; I just ran out of storage space. In fairness to Unraid I'm asking a lot more out of it than my current NAS but it's advertised, and heavily reviewed as being able to do almost everything I'm asking which is why I'm so critical. 2)Yes it's the only GPU in the system and I told the motherboard in the bios to boot with the CPU integrated graphics so I could pass through the GPU to the VM (per space invaders). If by isolated you mean in the unRaid web GUI during VM creation yes. I left cpu0 for unraid and have 1,2, & 3 selected for the windows VM. I vaguely remember space invaders further isolating cores for a VM in a different video though. I'll see if I can find that video again. 3) I considered power line adapters but I'm pretty sure the power lines from my room with my router, to the living room are not going to match (they go through the junction box). I bought a router to bridge but it's a pretty terrible one (extremely slow transfer speeds) so Im now looking for a better router to hopefully help me get more than. 1-5mbps.

Ive been relying heavily on the space invader videos. I also thought it might be asleep which is why I turned on the VM, then immediately turned on the wireless keyboard then started madly mashing buttons. I also know it wasn't asleep because the backlight was illuminated. I'll attach the diagnostic when I get home from work and add passing the motherboards USB controllers to my ever growing to-do list. I did exactly what you described above. I unticked the wired then ticked the wireless before restarting the VM but that didn't work. Did I need to restart the array first or something? Is there any other way to get those parameters to save? And just to be clear my frustration is not just with this. I've been running into lots of little issue constantly. Too many to post about. Sometimes I will find an older post with the same problems as me but their solution doesn't solve my problem. Not to hijack my own post but here are a few examples. 1) I can't copy data from my external HDD to my array (even though I have 3.4 TB remaining because Krusader sees that my cache disk is almost full and confuses that with my space remaining. The forum said to run the movers. I manually run the movers but my cache disk is still almost full somehow. 2) in the VM, I had demonic sound. I followed space invaders video to the letter but It didn't remove it. It did make it occur less often however. 3) it requires a hard-line Ethernet cable. This is mostly my fault for not looking hard enough before committing to Unraid. But still, I've spent almost as much on networking gear as I have invest in the actual old unraid computer. Almost all free Linux OS systems support wifi, why doesn't a very mature paying OS support it? I don't care that it's less reliable, it should be an option we can choose if like me the benefits outweigh the costs. People have been saying this for years, yet it's still not available. 4) I wrongly made separate shares for all my media (Tv, movies, pictures, etc). Apparently Plex doesn't like this so I just thought I could merge them in windows. Should take 15 seconds max.... Nope, that's not an unraid feature. I need to install Krusader first. 5) I wanted to access my data on a phone or outside my network. I start looking to install btsync. That's what everyone recommends on YouTube and such. Well it's old and now called Resillio or something. The recent reviews for Resillio on Google play are terrible. Apparently the Android Resillio app has been completed abandoned and is no longer usable. At this point I put that idea on the back burner and started focusing on the VM again. I'm not saying all this just to vent, hopefully someone who, like me, isn't a computer wizard and who doesn't have massive amounts of time to commit it research and tweaking will read it and better understand what's involved. If you are time poor but financial rich, i would definitely recommend an off the shelf NAS solution. I'm neither unfortunately. Luckily I decided to tackle this project during a lull at work, otherwise I'd still be trying to find hardware that supports HVM & IOMMU.

Backstory: Im rapidly loosing patience with unRaid and really hope that someone can help me. I eventually got a windows 10 VM working relatively well but it was with a wired keyboard. The rig is in my living room and the wire was not long enough to reach my couch so i bought a Logitech K830 which would be perfect with its built in touch pad. When i tried to pass my K830 into the VM through the unRaid GUI and not use my wired keyboard, it would no longer start the VM because the wired keybard was no longer plugged in. I tried to find a solution to this and was unable so i painfully deleted the entire VM so i could start again with the K830 dongle plugged in. I made a new windows 10 VM with just the K830 dongle plugged in and told unRaid to pass it to the VM. The vm will now start but i get to the part where you have to "Press any key to boot" or something like that and the K830 is not being recognized so i can not press any key. Im stuck at that screen. Im betting that the Logitech K830 would work once i can get windows installed (because ive read that it does) but i cant install windows without a working keyboard. I could plug the wired keyboard back in to install windows but then when i unplug it, the VM wont start again. Ill be back to where i started when i deleted my original VM. The even more concerning part is how fragile unraid is with USB connections. I went unRaid and not freenas so that i could have one set of hardware that will be a NAS but also a retro gaming machine. I need to be able to use an xbox controller for my games and that now seems like WAY TOO MUCH to ask, if i cant even get a keyboard to work. Will i just have to make sure i never un plug the xbox controller? I really hope the solution isnt buying a PCIE USB card. My computer is in a custom case (I put it in a gutted AV receiver) and the HDDS are currently hanging where that PCIE card would need to be. i5 7400 1050 TI, which i passed through. Gigabyte GA-Z170X-GAMING 6 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard 3x8gb of corsair 2400 ram (i know, not ideal) VM on 200gb of a 512gb SSD acting also as the cache drive.