i need help to make steam let open to games at once.

[gilad]

hi, i just bought microsoft flight simulator 2020 and im downloading it. but because i bought it in steam its not letting me to log in to another simulator (DCS) without closing the Downloading sim . thanks anyway

[kelvinhall05]

Are you doing this on the same PC? Steam lets you run several games at once on the same PC, but you can't have two separate Steam clients/computers playing their own games at once.

[gilad]

1 minute ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Are you doing this on the same PC? Steam lets you run several games at once on the same PC, but you can't have two separate Steam clients/computers playing their own games at once.

its the same pc i just want to play dcs while the other sim is downloading

[kelvinhall05]

5 minutes ago, gilad said:

its the same pc i just want to play dcs while the other sim is downloading

Oh, you mean downloads within Steam. You wrote your post to make it sound like MSFS2020 has to be opened and running its own launcher or something to download it.

 

 

If you're just downloading it in Steam, settings > downloads > allow downloads during gameplay

[gilad]

5 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Oh, you mean downloads within Steam. You wrote your post to make it sound like MSFS2020 has to be opened and running its own launcher or something to download it.

 

 

If you're just downloading it in Steam, settings > downloads > allow downloads during gameplay

sorry for lack of explaination. he has its own launcher in steam its act like installed game. i just need steam to allow 2 games to work

[Guest]

2 hours ago, gilad said:

sorry for lack of explaination. he has its own launcher in steam its act like installed game. i just need steam to allow 2 games to work

Close the box saying downloading Microsoft flight simulator. 

 

In the bottom of the steam window is a section that says downloading. Your game can download they're whilst you go back to the library and play another game. 

[dilpickle]

Just let it download? Surely you can go without gaming for a couple of hours.

[Mark Kaine]

On 11/27/2020 at 4:24 PM, fpo said:

Close the box saying downloading Microsoft flight simulator. 

 

In the bottom of the steam window is a section that says downloading. Your game can download they're whilst you go back to the library and play another game. 

Tbh I never really tried this - on purpose - but I'm pretty sure the Steam client will tell you to close the other game first if you want to start another... 

 

thats not to say you can't click directly on the exe and it won't work - something I also never tried, and have no reason to do so, steam is buggy enough already as is, but anyway you need to explain *how* to open two games on steam at once, because it certainly isn't clear *how*. 

 

PS: if it isn't clear the Microsoft sim thing must be running in order to download the game... so you cannot close it as the download will stop if you do, allegedly... (don't own it lol) 

[Mark Kaine]

ok according to "the internet" it should work. 

alt tab first game, start second game... shouldn't be any limitations except your hardware... 

 

(never tried and as said don't plan to lol) 

 

 

tell us how it goes @gilad!!! 

[dilpickle]

I'm installing MSFS right now and I have no problem launching another game.

 

But hopefully your download has finished by now.