Elden Ring

Elden Ring

Platinum
FromSoftware · Bandai Namco · 2022 Steam ↗

THE NEW FANTASY ACTION RPG. Rise, Tarnished, and be guided by grace to brandish the power of the Elden Ring and become an Elden Lord in the Lands Between.

2
Reports
QEMU/KVM
Top VM

Elden Ring has been tested in virtual machines by 2 community members on VMDB. The overall VM compatibility rating is Platinum — meaning it runs flawlessly with no issues reported. QEMU/KVM is the most tested hypervisor for this game (2 of 2 reports). 100% of testers used GPU passthrough.

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Platinum 1 (50%)
Gold 0 (0%)
Silver 0 (0%)
Bronze 0 (0%)
Borked 1 (50%)

GPU Mode

Passthrough Platinum
2 reports
Virtual GPU
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No GPU
No data
Anti-cheat detected
2 of 2 reports report anti-cheat: EasyAntiCheat (EAC)

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Community Reports 2 total

Platinum QEMU/KVM GPU Passthrough AMD CPU NVIDIA GPU EasyAntiCheat (EAC) vProxmox 9.1.6 Apr 22, 2026
Host OS
Linux
Guest OS
Linux
VM RAM
16 GB
Play Time
~302h
CPU
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
vCPU Cores
8
GPU
Gainward RTX 2070 Super Phantom
Anti-Cheat

EAC (Easy Anti-Cheat) not tested in official online mode. Seamless Co-op mod bypasses EAC entirely, no blocks or bans observed. VM detection behavior of official EAC online mode is unknown.

Graphics

No visual glitches or rendering artifacts. GPU passthrough works flawlessly out of the box.

Performance

Performance on par with bare metal. No crashes, no frame pacing issues, no noticeable overhead.

General

Tested exclusively with the Seamless Co-op mod. Multiplayer via Seamless Co-op works perfectly and is indistinguishable from bare metal. If you plan to play Elden Ring in a VM, use Seamless Co-op, it bypasses EAC entirely.

Reported by Rene Baumgarten · 1 month ago
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Borked QEMU/KVM GPU Passthrough EasyAntiCheat (EAC) Blocked / kicks Apr 28, 2026
Host OS
Linux
Guest OS
Windows 11
VM RAM
16 GB
CPU
Ryzen 9 5900x
vCPU Cores
8
GPU
RX 7900 XTX
Anti-Cheat

Easy Anti-Cheat blocks the game from launching inside a virtual machine. The game exits immediately with an error stating that it cannot run under a VM environment.

Required Tweaks

Some users report that spoofing motherboard and BIOS information may bypass the VM detection. This workaround is not confirmed to work in all cases.

General

The issue appears to be caused by Easy Anti-Cheat detecting the virtualized environment at launch. Based on community reports / reproduced behavior

Reported by Rene Baumgarten · 1 month ago
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