Two Gamers, One GPU from your Windows PC! Hyper-V Paravirtualization Build and Tutorial

So you can't buy a new graphics card right now.... How about sharing the one that's already in your PC, no extra hardware required? With just a Windows 10 Pro license a little know-how, you and a friend could be gaming on the same computer, at the same time.

But first... What am I drinking???

From Ex Novo Brewing, it's the Mass Ascension IPA (6.9%... nice). No beer review, as this one went a little long, but this was a nice change of pace for recent 'THICC' IPAs. Crisp, clean, fresh... a great summer-time beer.

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Covert Affair by Kevin MacLeod

0:00 Intro
3:55 Gratuitous B-Roll
5:01 Parts Review
9:30 GPU-P Requirements
11:47 Configure Hyper-V
15:59 Setup Shared GPU Drivers
19:42 Partition Your GPU!
21:13 GPU-P Demonstration

[SuperCryptic]

For the few that bought a 4080...

They changed the name of the driver folder (at least for me). It's now nvmdi.inf_amd64 instead of nv_dispi.inf_amd64.

Like this so more people see it!

[nilyaj]

Got ahold of a 3070 gonna basically build this so I can share my pc with my brother who sat outside of Best Buy for 10hrs for me to get the GPU. Thank you for allowing me to share the love and the FPS.

[gangmeow]

Thank you so much Jeff!
My gf and I play stardew valley together and her laptop is an i3 and 4gbs of ram and she was able to play using my rigs power with zero lag. Worked amazing and brought her a lot of happiness.
I set this up on my 5950x and 2070 super rig.

Contribution: For those who could not find the driver folder "nv_...", look at all the folders that start with the letters 'nv', the correct folder is the biggest one, about 1GB (in my case the name was " nvdmi.inf_amd64..." ;)

[RubyRoks]

I hate that tech reviewers now have a sense of guilt because parts/devices aren't available. Yall are just doing your jobs. EDIT: And you're not even using a review sample card!
Anyway, This is super cool. I'd love to see an AMD version of this too at some point

[JonathanChuter]

This is by far THE best video on how to do this. Worked first time for me, got family members playing off of the same GPU with little to no hit on my side🔥

[GearSeekers]

Looks like I'm re-rolling our Parsec server next week lol

[SimonDickerman]

Thank you so much for creating this tutorial, this is going to be so helpful for my used case of having multiple video editors using the same machine remotely.
Really appreciate the thoughtful and straightforward guides.

[EnzeMK]

16:43 For everyone who doesn't have that folder:
Device Manager > Your Graphics Card > Properties > Driver > Driver Details > Scroll all the way down, that's the folder you need.

[TydozHD]

This is a amazing tutorial. I managed to do it in a fx-6300 and 1050 ti adn 16gb ddr3 memory. With the fps limitation some games works fine.

[excalibur]

This video is very helpful. I tried it and now my sister can game from her home on my computer. It works perfectly. Thanks!

[brizol]

possibly the best manscape advert i've seen!

[deefdragon]

The tomato ad-read was the one you teased wasnt it. Its incredible and hilarious.

[kennethtrowbridge]

Solid walkthrough, explanation, and with downloadable project files. Your attention to detail is much appreciated -Cheers!

[jafizzle]

Hell yes! Feels like Christmas in August! I just love virtualization content. I don't know why, but I do.

[wolfshark]

Great way of getting GPU-P working quickly. We also started incorporating this into a project. Just wish Microsoft would add the ability to chose which GPU goes where rather than just picking randomly from all cards in the system.

[antargaming]

I did this months ago and really enjoyed how well it worked. Thanks for making a video and spreading the word around. Also for a two player setup I recommend having 2 vms with partitioned graphics as that will help prevent frame drops/stuttering

[playerdad]

I know this is two months old but I just followed this to get my son gaming with me and it was awesome and I just wanted to thank you.

[stevietech]

So now I have an excuse for a 3080 and a 3900x? That's great, I'm sure my wife will understand :)

[ghostofdre]

You can also copy the PowerShell script into a new ISE tab without saving it, then you can run it without changing the script execution policies.

You can also do a set-executionpolicy unrestricted -scope process

That will set the policy for the current process only.