I’ve also looked at an idea liked this, what stopped me was anti-cheat engines. They will usually block playing in a VM and there is no real way to trick them into thinking you’re not in a VM.
If that’s what works best for you, I don’t agree that having multiple boxes for different purposes linked by network is ugly. This is often what you see in enterprise and should bye plenty fast for your needs.
An full computer is also not a bad idea, if you want a gpu for transcoding it could be good. Honestly I found in most cases CPU transcoding with modern CPUs was quite good. If you go the GPU route, I would simply look for a used, cheap GPU it should do the trick!
I’ve also looked at an idea liked this, what stopped me was anti-cheat engines. They will usually block playing in a VM and there is no real way to trick them into thinking you’re not in a VM.
If that’s what works best for you, I don’t agree that having multiple boxes for different purposes linked by network is ugly. This is often what you see in enterprise and should bye plenty fast for your needs.
An full computer is also not a bad idea, if you want a gpu for transcoding it could be good. Honestly I found in most cases CPU transcoding with modern CPUs was quite good. If you go the GPU route, I would simply look for a used, cheap GPU it should do the trick!