eMP3Danie

Hello... My daughter (12) plays on a really underpowered laptop of mine which happens to have a Vega 8 chip on board. She plays Genshin and always complains about the motion (lack of fps) she gets when playing on low at 720. I decided to try negate that by creating a little 500GB SSD VM for her with a GPU passthrough. I was hoping to use left over items to potentially upgrade her experience and I am here to explain what I had to do as I pieced this solution together using multiple sources. Due to some anti cheat that the game runs a lot of people have been asking the same questions. The game essentially will not run on a VM with Hyper Visor optimisations enabled. I am using a passed through NVIDIA 1650 StormX OC and utilising the game stream feature with a dummy HDMI (there is no dedicated monitor with my server) and Moonlight (absolutely underrated app). I am going to assume you have your VM up set up and pinned etc but if not here is a very detailed guide on this. Remote Gaming on Unraid - Veriwind Once you have your VM setup you will need to open up the XML view by clicking the tab in the top right corner. Locate the CPU element and add in the line <feature policy='disable' name='hypervisor'/> What most people don't see is that there is already a feature element within so you need to add another with the line above like mine. <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none' migratable='on'> <topology sockets='1' dies='1' cores='2' threads='2'/> <cache mode='passthrough'/> <feature policy='require' name='topoext'/> <feature policy='disable' name='hypervisor'/> </cpu> This should now allow you to run the game. I am aware that this information is within this forum but its not clear on how to implement this work around. I have run some tests and its working over really better than expected, no more complaints of headaches now!

Trust me when I say... Unraid was confusing when I loaded it up... I had 3 builds before I fully committed to buying the pro license. Thank you all for putting my mind at rest, Ill have a 6 disk array 1 parity and 6 disks for cache overall.

I feel a little bit offended 🤣 its not my fault its so tiny! The data is all just media, anything that would be is else where on other devices but what shocked me into posting was that I had errors but the drive is less than 4 months old and nothing has happened that would physically jeopardise the disks integrity but I also added about another 80gig ram. After I removed the disk that was erroring is reorganised and ended up plugging in the same sata cable into another drive and that started to error too... so it looks like my drives are OK but I will need to order some more 2 metre sata cables. Do you really think a 1 disk parity will suffice... all I have is media really.

So I would be good with only one drive as parity? I think I understand the concept of what a parity drive is but wouldn't that allow for more than one disk to go down at a time? Edit** My bad drive turned out to be a temperamental sata cable. Who knew.

Yeah It will move to a pool as you said unprotected... I would be OK with this and then build an array with 2x4tb Parity and the array will be 2x4tb +2x2tb. I think you have answered my question anyhow... I am going to change my thinking and buy 3x6tb as I already have a 6tb in the array. New Config time I think. Thank you for your help!

Sorry, I'll attempt to clear this up. I have been up working on getting my data back over night so you can probably understand the lack of sleep in these situations. I do not have a parity setup and its only the last 24 hours I have realised that I do in fact require one as me and the family have come to using plex more than any other media service. If I were to move a few things around I could us the 6tb HDD in a pool on its own but I fear I cannot set up a valid parity with 2x2tb because that pool may or may not want to be included. Can I some how exclude it as its not part of the array?

Hi guys, Hi have been using and experimenting with unraid for the last few months and I have a couple of questions I am hoping to get answers too... I don't think I have unique setup but one that's most likely different from many. I have a Dell R710 and its simply being used for media only... the process for acquiring and storing all happens on this server. Where this differs is I have a couple PCIe SATA cards that in it and some extra long SATA cable and my array is technically powered by another server. (This is kind of irrelevant to be honest) This is the only way I can get drives powered without spending a fortune on a dedicated storage server. Where things get a little extra is where I pool a 1tb HDD to act as a torrent storage area... I found this was the best way to keep things moving without constantly keeping the array in use. I don't run any parity at all as its starting to bite me in the ass because I ran into some corruption on one of my drives last night and I didn't realise how much I have come to depend on it. My array looks like this. 1x6tb 3x2tb 1x500GB - Cache 1x1tb - Downloads What I would like to know... essentially is if I buy in another 4x4tb drives and put the other two into the array and use the 6tb as the download drive would that parity become invalid with having a 6tb pool or can I exclude it... the data on this drive is simply junk once moved away and is too large to fit on the parity. Long story short... would this cause me any issues with parity?