Issue, I have been running unraid for a while. I expected some performance loss in my gaming vm 5-10% but the bottom end was a lot more extreme than that (~50%). I finally got around to troubleshooting the issue and it seems to be coming down to PCIE lanes and configurations. And I may be crazy, but it felt like this was worse after installing a new NVME drive. My current setup:
Ryzen 1600
Asus b350-f Strix
PCIE x16 slot 1 - GT710 (Gets x8 in this slot)
PCIE x16 slot 2 - RX 480 (It was either 2.0 or 3.0 at x4)
Ram 16GB
VMs:
VM1 - Windows 10 Blue iris
VM2 - Windows 10 Gaming
The RX480 running at x4 PCIE lanes seems to have quite the impact on the bottom end of my frame rates. So, I need a solution and I have not found a decent answer yet.
Option 1: If I could boot to unraid using the GT 710 in the second PCIE 16 slot this would solve my problems. Idk how to do this not have I found good information on it yet if you know plz help.
Option 2: Throw money at it? Get a x470 or x570 board instead that can actually run x8 +x8 I think that would help a good bit. A good board recommendation that's not too expensive would be greatly appreciated!
If anyone has a better option I am definitely open to ideas! I tried running unraid headless in the past and I had a lot of issues. But maybe I was just doing it wrong...
-Struggling Noob.
Solved: I was able to get things operating much more smoothly. First off I had to remove CPU pinning. I do not know why but this actually caused horrible stuttering. Next I added another full cpu to the VM which really smoothed things out. I thought the lanes were having more impact than then were. Now I would say I am only losing about %10 off of my normal benchmark scores. - Thanks to everyone who helped!