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Is local, split-screen multiplayer possible?

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zorky:
Okey that was sad thats the only thing i missing atm so you could play home with your friends as goldeneye should be played ^^

illwieckz:
I guess on Linux you can get with one computer, 4 wine prefixes, so 4 fake Windows setup for 4 GE:S installation, then 4 windowed noborder games running on same screen (setting arbitrary sizes to half the height and width and manually placing them, or use a tiled window manager). There is an input issue (1 keyboard and 1 mouse shared for all the instances running) but if you use joysticks it's probably not a problem, using one for each instances. Then you have the network issue, you probably have to setup a virtual network bridge and 4 virtual network interfaces, then run each instance with a different ip address. In fact it means you don't need a physical network at all, that is good. Then, there is a question: is steam allows to run multiple instances of the same game? You can run steam 4 times on the same computer due to the 4 wine prefixes (it's just lke 4 computers running one windows each), but if I remember right, Steam prevents you to run a game you are already playing on another computer (or will disconnect the game on the other computer). So perhaps you need 4 steam accounts.

So, if you have a computer with an AMD GPU (because of that), Linux skills, wine skills, knowing how to install unreleased drivers, unreleased wine, unreleased gallium-nine, chroot skills, X11 skills, virtual networking and bridging skills, hl2 switch knowledge, 4 joysticks (and perhaps 4 steam accounts), yes, probably you can do a GE:S 4 player splitscreen with one computer and one display. But it's not easy.  :-\

Btw, I haven't tried joysticks on GE:S/Wine/Linux.  ;D

kraid:
1. Possible, just need the right monitor and 4 computers: http://accessories.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=210-AHSQ&dgc=SM&cid=11284&lid=472042138

2. alternatively: http://www.networktechinc.com/quad-splitter.html

or

3. you could have them bring their monitors with them too, since they allready have to bring their PCs anyway.

Not sure if illwieckz idea would work performance wise, since one computer would not only need to run linux and 4 instances of wine, but also 4 instances of the game.
I guess emulating even one instance of windows+game through wine is more demanding then running windows native and play the game there.

In any case the LAN setup will be far superior, no matter if you hook up the 4 computers to one screen with possibility 1/2 or use possibility 3 and place the screens next to each other.

killermonkey:

--- Quote from: kraid on October 03, 2016, 11:24:03 am ---I guess emulating even one instance of windows+game through wine is more demanding then running windows native and play the game there.

--- End quote ---

Wine Is Not an Emulator

kraid:
Nah, it's fermented grape juice. XP

TBH, i'm not exactly sure what it is, but i don't think that running a programm through wine will give you the exact same performance as if you run it native on windows.

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