The reason I ask, is I finally after tried GPU passthrough on a WIN11 VM using a old GT710 I had laying around. Did a VBIOS dump, removed the headers passed it through, no code 43 error, latest drivers installed.

 

All good I thought BUT I could swear the VM was better if not the exactly the same! Appreciate its an older card and I use a GTX1650 low profile for Plex but was expecting it to better. Youtube streams on my VM still judder and Core usage on unraid dashboard seems to go up a lot more.

 

This was just a pre-test to make sure everything works but now I am thinking do I need to even bother. Baring in mind I dont game, use a bit of photoshop now and then and have managed for years with just using Virtual GFX.

 

CPU is dual xeon X5690 with no igpu 

Edited May 20, 20233 yr by bally12345

Switched back to Virtual due seeing all cores assigned to VM hitting 100% for some reason. 

Maybe a bit Late here.

You need to disable the VNC for your VM. Than hook your display up to the choosen Grafikscard and enable remote Desktop after downloading all Drivers.

Its a thing only with the Nvidia cards

hey, maybe you can help me out. My WIN11 VM is terribly slow compared to my old WIN10 system.
Therefore, wanted to passthrough my GT710 aswell. But i'm unable to fix the code 43 issue. So far, i've tried to optize my kvm settings to "hide vm existance". Wanted to not touch Bios :/

Would love if you can help me out, what you did with bios etc.
Or any link to a Guide would help me out big time. Can give you Feedback if it did accelerate anything on my side.

7 hours ago, Trynn said:

Or any link to a Guide would help me out big time. Can give you Feedback if it did accelerate anything on my side.

may ahead, a 710 card is really old and makes no real sense anymore, but if you want to try it ...

Nvidia opened VM support a few years ago for cards (10th up, may 9xx up), older cards need a vbios dump and so on ...

here a video tutorial to fetch it

may also needs some testing with uefi / legacy booting for unraid && vm, also mashine type testing for vm (i44 or q35), so there are 8 combos to test ... in terms it doesnt want to work with vbios oob ... ;) i rather would suggest, get a cheap used 1050++ card to have a real benefit (nvenc) and way less stress to get it working ;)

with nvenc you could also use streaming apps like parsec, sunshine/moonlight, ... which is the best fluid VM experience overall if wanted.

Thanks for all the additional input. I'm not really into this game, and this give me lots of topics i can read / google into.
But basically, i just wanted W11 for simple Office/Coding tasks to be smooth. And for whatever reason, it is not via RDP on LAN. (W10 was for me)

So i figured, i give that task-bar a bit of GPU support with the old 710 lying around.

Probably also an option to migrate to an iGPU for AM4 (5700G) or even switching to a newer Plattform?
I would preferably keep a GPU out of my Unraid for power reasons. And i do not have any need for workstation workloads like rendering/encoding/gaming.

Edited July 13, 2025Jul 13 by Trynn

For the GT710, are there any caveats like the "order" when a driver has to be installed? or can i simply switch around the "8 combos" and test, unless it works?