WIN11 VM for Editing and Games = ISSUES. Might wanna drop your experience?

[deltaexray]

ISSUES:

While Videoediting, footage is running away after playing start and pause.

With TS Doctor, to Edit recorded TV Shows of my Set Top Box, playing Pause/Start, footage runs away and cannot make a precise cute = skipping frames ends in standing image with 500ms of not moving. = Latency Issue?

General not responsive, even after config changes. (Increasing Bandwidth)

Gaming is laggy, even with low demanding Games at HD Settings with GTX 960.

Parsec :

Lags, drifting mouse and it feels like it is running at 10 FPS.

CPU at MAX 75%

GPU at MAX 70%

Nothing seems to throttle, there’s no indication that CPU or GPU are a Factor here.

Bandwidth edited to 100 instead of 50, encoder set to 64 which is Highest Quality.

Desktop / Display still look a little „blurry“.

VDISK issue maybe?

In general, through Parsec, it feels a little less responsive then through VNC

 

Hardware:

 

UnRaid VM:

8 7252 EPYC Cores, Host Passthrough

MB: Supermicro H12SSL-NT

16GB (16384MB) RAM

Hyper-V OFF

I440fx-7.2

OVMF-TPM

3.0 qemu

Primary VDISK Location: Manual, VirtIO, 200G, (Location is a single NVME 2TB)

Said NVME: KIOXIA 2TB Gen 4 on an ASUS Hyper M.2 Card (All GEN 4 and Bifurcation enabled)

GTX 960 Passthrough with VFIO

Netwotk: br1 with virtio

 

Software:

 

WIN11 Images made with NTLite, removed a lot of bloat and did some tuning, however, I’ve been running the same image on two different machines with NO issues. Mind you, without parsec.

 

IDEAS:

VDISK Issue? Passingthrough a single NVME for direct and only storage for WIN11?

Configuration Issue? Wrong Settings, both on WIN11 and UnRAID? Parsec maybe too?

Parsec just being shit?

 

In general, I don’t think that the Hardware is the issue here. Except for one small thing: The CPU, EPYC 7252, is a „special one“ since it is only 8 cores and effectively only 4 Memory Channels. Could it be the case that there’s simply not enough bandwidth in terms of System Memory available to have sufficient performance?

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So this it the write up of the current state of these issues, with said VM and Parsec. Before the current WIN11 Image, I tested like 6 different ones before this one was stable. From my Point of view, I think Parsec might be the issue but also why is it so? 
Diagnostics are attached. 

Thanks in Advance,

Cheers - Alex' 

 

server-diagnostics-20240722-1725.zip

Edited July 25 by deltaexray