Running a Game Twice on One Machine?

[JojobaJack]

Got two copies of Rust of two seperate Steam accounts, looking into virtual machines and seeing if with another monitor I could run both copies simaltaniously so that my friend could play alongside me.

What would be the best Virtual Machine Software for this?

Machine Spec:
ASUS X99 Motherboard
GTX980 4GB Nvidia
32GB DDR4 RAM
Intel i7 Overclocked

any advise would be really appreciated, thank you.

 

[nimbian]

Usually virtual machine will take only the input from the host meaning your keyboard I don't believe this is possible due to the fact that you will only have focus in on one machine at any given time

 

[gamerk316]

*Probably* VM Ware, though note there are a few major problems here:

1: Simply put, you aren't going to have enough CPU/GPU power to do two copies of the same game at the same time, especially through a VM.

2: Most VMs don't allow HW access to the GPU, especially later DX APIs. So no modern games will actually run through a VM. Support is getting better though, and I think VM Ware at least supports baseline DX11, but check first before purchasing anything.

3: You can only have one foreground application running at a time. In addition, most programs don't allow background input, so even if you went with two windows, one on each screen, only one would be able to receive user inputs.

 

[James Mason]

Desktop PCs only receive input from 1 keyboard and 1 mouse at a time.

If you wanted to play with your friends, should have just built a second PC:
https://pcpartpicker.com/b/wxccCJ