2 gamers 1 pc 2 Gamers 1 GPU, is it even possible?

[Laniakea]

Hi guys, I wanna build a new PC soon but me and my brother wanna play CO-OP some not AAA title games, like CS:GO, so we don't need like 1080Ti. My question is if so GTX 1060 is can hold up these games really well like 200 fps, can I use it to build 2 gamers 1 Tower? Like 200 divided by 2 is 100  and considering the drop caused by this non efficient setup, say it 60 fps. Would it be possible? Like how efficient will be the system? I'll use a Ryzen 7 1700 CPU so I don't think we will have a bottleneck here. A quick help will be appreciated  And sorry for my so so english.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Probably is that there is no way to split the gpu up so you can do this. You can make it so that you have multiple users with multipoint, but then you can't play most games. 

Your best option is just buying a cheap desktop or habving your friend bring their desktop over.

[DXMember]

mby get two cheap cards like dual RX560 or something and do the unraid stuff like linux did in his video

but you'll still need a second set of periferals

[Laniakea]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Probably is that there is no way to split the gpu up so you can do this. You can make it so that you have multiple users with multipoint, but then you can't play most games. 

Your best option is just buying a cheap desktop or habving your friend bring their desktop over.

Will buying like GT 1030 (which can handle games fairly well) let him play games on his monitor seperated from my GPU?

[The Sloth]

Just now, LOLLIPOPSJSJSJ said:

Will buying like GT 1030 (which can handle games fairly well) let him play games on his monitor seperated from my GPU?

get a used 750ti or rx270/370, 1030 is not worth getting 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, LOLLIPOPSJSJSJ said:

Will buying like GT 1030 (which can handle games fairly well) let him play games on his monitor seperated from my GPU?

yea, but you need to install linux on the system and do a lot of software configuration. Really its not worth it.

 

also nvidia gtx cards don't really like passthrough, so get amd if you can or deal with some more configuration.

[3 Lions]

Just now, LOLLIPOPSJSJSJ said:

Will buying like GT 1030 (which can handle games fairly well) let him play games on his monitor seperated from my GPU?

The 1030 isn't a gaming card and no one should buy it. 

[bamrtn]

I think you could make it work with a single card too. Form my experience, vmware player can run some less demanding titles in a vm. Although it only allows 2gb vram per vm and performance varies significantly between games.

[Laniakea]

We haven't buy the actual computer yet, so I'm open to any ideas but considering the budget. I want to get at least 60 fps at high graphics on CS:GO both monitors. Is there's a shortcut to that? Cause we wanna play CO-OP really bad  But again I need something power like GTX 1060 for my own, I can prefer GTX 1050Ti and use budget for an used 750Ti like you guys mentioned up there. But would it be worth it and will it work?

Edited July 4, 2017 by LOLLIPOPSJSJSJ

[Electronics Wizardy]

16 minutes ago, LOLLIPOPSJSJSJ said:

We haven't buy the actual computer yet, so I'm open to any ideas but considering the budget. I want to get at least 60 fps at high graphics on CS:GO both monitors. Is there's a shortcut to that? Cause we wanna play CO-OP really bad  But again I need something power like GTX 1060 for my own, I can prefer GTX 1050Ti and use budget for an used 750Ti like you guys mentioned up there. But would it be worth it and will it work?

your much better off just builidng 2 cheaper systems. Look at something like a old dell optiplex for about 100 bucks and put a gpu in it.

[manikyath]

the issue is simple:

 

developing software for this costs money, the enterprise needed efficient cpu virtualisation and is willing to pay good money for it.

 

no one in their right mind will pay that kind of money for efficient GPU virtualization, as well as the current VM platforms' biggest customers being the server market, who dont really need gpu performance in VMs, if they need GPU performance, they just get dedicated GPU nodes.

[Laniakea]

11 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

your much better off just builidng 2 cheaper systems. Look at something like a old dell optiplex for about 100 bucks and put a gpu in it.

I will use my main system for renders and game recording, so there's no way I can buy 2 cheap ones just to play games. But I just wanted to ask if I can run CS:GO like games veeery well, can't I divide it to play with my brother, in the cheapest way. What a simple question right? I wait for a simple awnser tho but...  

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, LOLLIPOPSJSJSJ said:

I will use my main system for renders and game recording, so there's no way I can buy 2 cheap ones just to play games. But I just wanted to ask if I can run CS:GO like games veeery well, can't I divide it to play with my brother, in the cheapest way. What a simple question right? I wait for a simple awnser tho but...  

your "simple answer" is just above you.

 

or if you need it even more simple: no.

[AliCaliK]

I already have a 1080 ti, and I don't have the budget to build another computer, is there a way to 1 GPU 2 gamers?

[Mira Yurizaki]

The problem is that GPUs, despite having groups of execution unit that you can effectively call a "core", is still seen to the system as one cohesive unit. Whereas each core on a processor is seen to the system as a separate unit. However I'm not sure if this is how the drivers present the GPU or if the hardware presents itself as a single unit.

 

You could probably do 2 gamers, 1 GPU, but that requires work from the drivers to interleave submission of command lists to the GPU and also limiting the amount of VRAM each user has access to.

[Sawtaytoes]

I disagree with the selected answer. From what I've seen, it's very possible to run multiple systems off a single GPU especially today. It's called GPU-partitioning in Windows. There is a special driver setup to get it working, but you don't necessarily need that either.

 

I setup Aster and had it working for multiple users on a single GPU with having to mess with custom drivers or GPU-partitioning. I wrote a thread on how you can set it up here:

While my setup uses 2 GPUs, the instructions are the same for a single GPU. Somehow, Windows is able to figure out how to share GPU resources. I was honestly surprised to see it working at all.