shayne787

but you cant play split screen on a PC on very many games. in order to play multiplayer on a PC with your friends you have to build your own LAN. if any one wants to disagree with this i have my own thread on split screen on a pc but the lego games are about the only games that will play multi player. So think if i play with my four freinds and they dont want to haul thier system over i need 4 of your gaming PCs at 400 dollars apiece which is far less that a PS3 or an XBOX 360. if you have a solution to this problem please tell me but i cant find a way to play multiplayer on my single PC.

there lies the issue.I was thinking exactly that same thing until I realized this. on a pc you need to have the window your using selected,and only one window can be selected at a time. it'd be like if you had your browser open,taking up half the screen,and clicked on the desktop,then afterwards tried to type into the search bar.it wouldn't work because the browser is now de-selected and the desktop is the selected window. this is what would happen with the second instance of the game.you cant have both selected so one player would just be pressing keys and nothing would be happening since the VM is de-selected,or if the VM is selected then the main instance of the game is de-selected. along with that unless it's a really light game it would be difficult to run from a VM as a second instance even if you have a genuinely beastly pc,something along the lines of an i7,16GB ram,HDD with fast read speeds or SSD. well why not? with enough hard work you could program a pc to do any thing. the thought is that you have one window that has two programs running inside it similar to a VM. then i pair a mouse and a controller to the first game and those have no effect on the second window which is controlled by a wired xbox controller. this making you able to run two players off the same computer. Just think Battlefield Vietnam on 5 way eyefinity with 5 different people playing on it.

Well if I have a beast PC then shouldn't I be able to run two instances of a older game? Then after doing this you would need to pair a mouse and key board to each game but for some reason this seems to be unavailable which would make the PC much more competitive against the console. The problem seems that developers think that PC gamers don't get out much and we have no friends so we don't need to be able to play multiplayer or that we are all rich enough to purchase our own personal LAN which is not the case for me I don't know about you.

Does any one know of a effective way to do split screen on a pc? there are some cheesy implementations of this such as in heavy fire Afghanistan where everyone shares one picture and has a different cursor to shoot with kind of like old arcades but i want true split screen where every player has a controller and their own instance of the game. the other idea is two instances of a game on two different monitors with a different controller for each instance all running off one pc. this would be really nice at a lan party where you may not have enough space to be able to set up two computers but you could still have two players each with their own screen.

cooler master storm trooper, cant beat the aesthetics

Hmmm mine didn't catch fire but i do have a short in the power cable. it caused some of the leds to not be as bright as they normally would. but after jiggling the power cord i got my lights back. overall i have to agree the controller wasn't high quality and i wouldn't recommend it. on the other hand it is great PC bling when you get it to work.