ss13 in a virtual machine

[msgfiend]

anyone succeeded running goonstation reliably with a virtual machine? i want to spend most of my life in a linux environment yet would like to hop on goon every once in a blue moon w/out dual-booting.

i'm running kvm/qemu hypervisor with ubuntu 18.04 LTS. here are my results:

windows xp vm: byond runs, but any and all ss13 servers crash as soon as they load. firewall and antivirus off. managed to load and play a few minutes of the 2nd most popular byond game. weird.

windows 7 vm: byond runs, goonstation loads, but most sprites are missing. unplayable.

windows 10 vm: byond runs, goonstation loads, but LAG! 200ms ping. i've read that some of you endure that normally but anything less than ~125ms ping is unplayable for me, ss13 is already choppy as hell by nature. besides the lag, performance seems OK.

conclusion: going back to dual-boot winblows.

WINE note: i've read over and over that it's sluggish (and unplayable, i assume).

anyone else succeed running ss13 in a VM? maybe with a different hypervisor than kvm/qemu? i'm all ears.

[onetoughcreampuff]

My internet connection fluctuates a lot especially at peak hours on weekends, with ping at 300-600, game is still strangely playable, but I'm used to it, I mostly play much more relaxed jobs then such as QM, botanist, scientist. I have two different save slots with jobs suited to what time it is, one dedicated to action based jobs/antags for when my pings back at a nice 60-110, and one for when ping goes to shit, with jobs/antags to suit it.

You get used to the choppy movement after a while, sometimes when its really bad it can get annoying, especially during fights or when a lotta stuffs happening on screen (the nuke area, wizard arse narthing a area, a chem bomb), but if you play antags which you can fuck with the station from afar (Mindslaves and Syndiborgs are great for this, setting up mousetrap+pipebombs, mechcomp traps, sleepy penning, wraith bussiness), its not too bad. Heck I miss selected my preferences and ended up as a Headrev it still went pretty well, I just left the sec raiding and bridge looting to my lackys while i converted more of the station with some stealth.

[KikiMofo]

Byond was made with shitty connections in mind so yeah even if you got 600 ping you will still be able to play the games on it. Mostly.

[MoonJesus]

I use parallels on my Mac running the free version of Windows 10, it runs pretty decently. But lag like you said can be a problem so playing it away from home is a no-go.