Windows limitations

[Trynna3]

So, I have had a happy VM Win11 Pro in virtualbox, where I was playing Bigfish games. Suddenly even the game I played without issues became jumpy, lagging, the audio skippy... despite strong hardware support (6 cores CPU and plenty of graphic memory, twice the usual max (mine is 256MB). 3D virtualisation enabled, all usual settings in place. I tried to uninstall the realtek HD sound driver and reboot, which installed it again. It said I have the best one.
Troubleshooting found a problem with the audio though, but couldn't fix it.
The chatbot says it may be because it is unregistered version (on a computer that came with Win10 and recognises new Win11 on a separate hard drive natively installed there).
The chatbot also suggested I could fix this problem with registering a licence (which I have been having in my stash for a good year). But will it? The bot suggested that unregistered licence might have barriers for updates and optimisation by the Windows system. Is that true? It doesn't even play the usual start up sound, just a single 'duh' and that's it.

There are pieces of software that only run in Windows, so I want to keep it for now.

 

[f33dm3bits]

Have you tried running the vm with Qemu/KVM and virt-manager, I doubt that it's because of licensing issues because basic usage of Windows is free except for when you want to get into personalization features last time I checked that is.

https://linuxconfig.org/setting-up-virtual-machines-with-qemu-kvm-and-virt-manager-on-debian-ubuntu

Install & Setup QEMU/KVM to Run Virtual Machines in Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04 | UbuntuHandbook

In short you install a few packages and then use virt-manager to create your vm. You could also try installing those games in bottles because from what I'v seen those games seem quite simple and don't require a lot of resources.

 

[Trynna3]

Have you tried running the vm with Qemu/KVM and virt-manager, I doubt that it's because of licensing issues because basic usage of Windows is free except for when you want to get into personalization features last time I checked that is.

https://linuxconfig.org/setting-up-virtual-machines-with-qemu-kvm-and-virt-manager-on-debian-ubuntu

Install & Setup QEMU/KVM to Run Virtual Machines in Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04 | UbuntuHandbook

In short you install a few packages and then use virt-manager to create your vm.

I used to have KVM QEMU on a different machine, but something was messed up and it no longer launched again. Not sure what caused it. I was also concerned that they share the kernel, hence it is almost a native speed for the VM. That's why I decided to go with the virtualbox instead, to have more separation between the two systems.