diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index df799e2..9761694 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ Easy-GPU-P does the following... WARNING: A work in progress... ### Prerequisites: -* Windows 11 Pro or Enterprise +* Wimndows 10 20H1+ Pro or Enterprise or Windows 11 Pro or Enterprise * Desktop Computer with dedicated NVIDIA/AMD GPU or Integrated Intel GPU - Laptops with NVIDIA GPUs are not supported at this time, but Intel integrated GPUs work on laptops. GPU must support hardware video encoding (NVIDIA NVENC, Intel Quicksync or AMD AMF). * Latest GPU driver from Intel.com or NVIDIA.com, don't rely on Device manager or Windows update. -* Windows 11 ISO [downloaded from here](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11) +* Latest Windows 10 ISO [downloaded from here](https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10ISO) / Windows 11 ISO [downloaded from here](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11) * Virtualisation enabled in the motherboard and Hyper-V fully enabled on the Windows 11 OS (requires reboot) * Allow Powershell scripts to run on your system - typically by running "Set-ExecutionPolicy unrestricted" in Powershell @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ WARNING: A work in progress... 3. Search your system for Powershell ISE and run as Administrator. 4. In the extracted folder you downloaded, open PreChecks.ps1 in Powershell ISE. 5. Open and Run PreChecks.ps1 in Powershell ISE using the green play button and copy the GPU Listed (or the warnings that you need to fix). -6. Open CopyFilesToVM.ps1 and edit the params section at the top of the file, you need to be careful about how much ram, storage and hard drive you give it as you system needs to have that available. You also need to write the GPU name exactly how it appears in PreChecks.ps1. Additionally, you need to provide the path to the Windows 11 ISO file you downloaded. +6. Open CopyFilesToVM.ps1 and edit the params section at the top of the file, you need to be careful about how much ram, storage and hard drive you give it as you system needs to have that available. You also need to write the GPU name exactly how it appears in PreChecks.ps1. Additionally, you need to provide the path to the Windows 10/11 ISO file you downloaded. 7. Run CopyFilesToVM.ps1 with your changes to the params section - this may take 5-10 minutes. 8. View the VM in Hyper-V, once it gets to the Windows Desktop you will need to approve the certificate install request for Parsec and Virtual Audio Cable. 9. Sign into Parsec on the VM. @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ It's important to update the VM GPU Drivers after you have updated the Host GPUs Thanks to [Hyper-ConvertImage](https://github.com/tabs-not-spaces/Hyper-ConvertImage) for creating an updated version of [Convert-WindowsImage](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Virtualization-Documentation/tree/master/hyperv-tools/Convert-WindowsImage) that is compatible with Windows 10 and 11. ### Notes: +- Windows 10 20H1 is not well tested as I don't have any Win10 20H1 installs, if you have success on Windows 10 20H1 - 21H2 please let me know. - A display or HDMI dummy dongle must be plugged into the GPU to allow Parsec to capture the screen. - The screen may go black for times up to 10 seconds in sitautions when UAC prompts appear, applications go in and out of fullscreen and when you switch between video codecs in Parsec - not really sure why this happens, it's unique to GPU-P machines and seems to recover faster at 1280x720. - Vulkan renderer is unavilable and GL games may or may not work.