VAM on Linux

[dusty]

Has anyone had success running VAM on Linux?

I have seen some posts from a few years ago saying it actually works better than Windows. However, nothing more recent.

I tried it on Mint 21.3 and was able to get it to run through Proton experimental; however the screen is just black.

Would it be easier just to create a virtual machine running Windows 10 in Linux, and play desktop mode that way?

 

[atani]

Are you doing it just for fun or other reasons?

 

[dusty]

Are you doing it just for fun or other reasons?

Trying to move to Linux completely, and this is one of the few things holding me back

 

[atani]

Have you considered dual booting?
I use linux for everything but VaM and some heavy games, and dual booting would enable you to have both worlds rather easily.

 

[Stars&Garters]

Dang. Randomly just started considering a complete move to Linux on the next rig build (maybe in a year or two), but this thread has me reconsidering.

Glad the question is floating around at least.

 

[SlimerJSpud]

My opinion only, coming as a retired engineer who used Linux professionally for decades, is that trying to put some heavy duty Windows program like Vam (or Daz) into Linux is an exercise in futility. You will be bashing your head against a very large stone wall. Dual boot is an option. I've used dual boot machines before. You end up needing a lot more disk space, but it's an option. In the last iteration of the setup I had at work, everybody had a Windows laptop, even the Linux code developers. Everybody that used Linux connected from the laptop to a Linux VM running on a server farm. There were no more local Linux boxes in people's offices. Everything was on the VM server farm. It worked quite well, but that did require industrial strength data pipes.

The converse is also true. The Linux code that company developed ran jobs that required a 6 TB DRAM master node and over 1000 slave cores distributed over a compute farm. Anybody who suggested that this could run in Windoze was usually met with peals of laughter...

 

[everlaster]

There are existing other threads on this topic with a lot of info

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VAM on Linux (Success)

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Guides - How to get VaM working on SteamVR in Linux (Pop_Os or Ubuntu)

WaifuResearchDepartment submitted a new resource: How to get VaM working on SteamVR in Linux (Pop_Os or Ubuntu) - I struggled, so you don't have to. I thought I would write a guide for this as I struggled to get this working for a couple of days having to scrounge together scraps of...

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[urasam]

a recent microsoft update does not allow secure boot to work with dual boot setups
here for the same reason, will let you know how it goes

 

[urasam]

Smoother on linux, plus the CPU patch made a huge difference
Steam to proton method was easy to set up as well