Post #3757328

2026-07-12 08:27 UTC

Thank you for your reply, this sounds on track to what I am looking for. Very interesting on the clean file + emulator route. Sounds like a similar line of thinking to my signed / hash checked GOG installer thoughts. Regarding using a VM with a GPU passthrough, what software would you recommend for doing this with? I am very familiar with virtualbox and do prefer a GUI though I recognise I will probably have to adapt in order to get what I want. Thanks again.

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@edinbruh@feddit.it 2026-07-12 09:01

I forgot about the gog part. Yeah, you can also use those. There used to be a website that uploaded clean gog installers, but now all the download links are behind those sketchy filesharing services. Though, if you manage to get one, the binary should be signed by the developer. On windows I know you can check the signature by right-clicking on the file, on Linux I don’t remember because I haven’t needed it in a long time. For the VM you need qemu/kvm. I suggest to use virt-manager which is just a graphical interface for qemu.

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@helix@feddit.org 2026-07-12 09:05

Regarding using a VM with a GPU passthrough, what software would you recommend for doing this with? KVM Passthrough, e.g. with looking-glass.io However, it’s way too much hassle. Just run Steam in a sandbox, e.g. Firejail.

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