2 games on 1 pc ?

[pecaros.igor]

Hey guys, so my brother just bought a new PC and I still have my really bad laptop, each of us have bought PUBG (Player Unknown Battlegrounds) on our steam and I am wondering if I can attach my laptop to his PC and play PUBG on my account while he is still playing on his. So the goal is to use his pc to run both games while we play on separate accounts.

 

[Frag Maniac]

No, you cannot play two instances of a game on one PC.

 

[fritzderjauch]

There is a process called "Virtualization", which basically means you can run 2 systems on one PC seperately. Though this requires a very strong CPU and 2 graphics cards, so i doubt you can use this technique. Otherwise, watch "2 gamers one cpu" by LinusTechTips

 

[pecaros.igor]

the pc is a 2000$ one, it has GTX 1080Ti 11GB and the CPU is really good as well, are you sure fritzderjauch?

 

[IInuyasha74]

While the hardware might be technically capable of running two versions of the game at a time, it isn't going to work in software. You might get through with a Virtual PC running for one user, but the controls wouldn't share right. Performance would drop drastically if you managed to get both running as well.

 

[TechyInAZ]

the pc is a 2000$ one, it has GTX 1080Ti 11GB and the CPU is really good as well, are you sure fritzderjauch?

It's a CRAZY hassle, cause you have to set up a VMware type operating system, get two whole versions of windows 10 installed. But if you want to do it, go for it.

Then because it's in a virtualized environment, performance will tank a little bit more than normal, cause of the virtualization.

 

[fritzderjauch]

the pc is a 2000$ one, it has GTX 1080Ti 11GB and the CPU is really good as well, are you sure fritzderjauch?

As ive said, you need 2 graphics cards from what i know, AND even if its like an i7 7700k, which is an amazing and expensive gaming cpu, and that system sounds like a gaming system so im sure its could a cpu of that kind in it, it would bottleneck your virtualized system hard, cause you would effectively have 2 dual cores. if you have like 6 or 8 or more cores things look better, but yet youre lacking a second graphics card and it is a very time consuming and hard process to get a virtualized machine working.

 

[pecaros.igor]

Thank you guys

 

[Frag Maniac]

The above is all what I was implying. A lot of people don't realize what it takes just between one set of CPU, GPU and RAM to calculate, send, and render modern gaming graphics.

Trying to run TWO instances of a game on one set of hardware is asking for trouble, even WITH virtualization software. Despite it being the same game the data for each instance would all have to be calculated and rendered separately.