Current Geforce user thinking of switching, One question, Civ 6?

Good evening! In addition to what @B 3 A N said, I would like to add that there is a known issues page, that contains some games as well, as some game developers block Virtual Machines. A good example is Valorant and Genshin Impact. https://help.shadow.tech/hc/en-gb/articles/360011233839-Known-Issues-for-Shadow

It is very rare that you encounter an issue with games. Applications that require Virtualization, like Android Emulators (Bluestacks etc), or Hypervisors (Hyper-V, VMWare, VirtualBox etc) don’t run either, as nested virtualization is disabled on Shadow.

Hey @blackmage999, as @Phobos has mentioned, Shadow does not support virtualization software, including emulators, and cannot be modified to do so. Attempting to enable virtualization is considered a modification and is not supported.

You can try to use applications like Docker Desktop, Bluestacks, or Nox, but we are unable to guarantee that it will work since virtualization is disabled on Shadow as those apps are more like Virtual Machines rather than pure emulators.

In regards to emulators like DOSBox, I haven’t heard anything about that one specifically. I do know that Dolphin Emulator or similar programs can run on Shadow. Although they can run on Shadow, obtaining ROMs/ISOs on Shadow is not allowed. Thus transferring any ROMs/ISOs to Shadow is not against our Terms of Use:

Torrenting, Pirating, or Downloading Illegal Content

Downloading or sharing any content without the permission of the content-owner is prohibited as described in our Terms of Use, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and the No Electronic Theft Act (NET). For security purposes, Shadow cannot discriminate between file sharing and pirating, and as such, any form of torrenting may result in the termination of your account.

@blackmage999 If DOSBox works out of the box (pun intended) you can feel free to use it. If you however have to modify Shadow itself to get DOSBox to work it is considered a modification and is violating the terms of use. A modification would for example be trying to boot into BIOS and enabling virtualisation platforms of some sort. If you install it and it works, there is nothing you would have to worry about. I hope that answers the question.