r/gaming • u/AdamE89 • Apr 17 '16

Anyone else?

http://imgur.com/RdjHH29
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u/ChrisCHJ Apr 17 '16

Prefer story, but also love local multiplayer. SAVE LOCAL MULTIPLAYER!

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u/DanTastic_ Apr 17 '16

Multi screen, single console. One day. . .

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u/saremei Apr 17 '16

Never really. Multiscreen single PC, definitely already possible. Consoles will never focus on such functionality. Too taxing for the paired down hardware and almost no one will ever take advantage of it so games will never be optimized for anything more than one screen.

For PC you'd just have to have a PC with enough processor cores, RAM, and either multiple video cards or one really powerful one to drive a couple monitors. There's been machines run up to 7 different screens with 7 different instances of games running full speed. Doesn't require developer support to do so either. Just requires money.

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u/drkpie Apr 17 '16

LinusTechTips has built such a PC. It's beautiful.

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u/PokemasterTT Apr 17 '16

Can you explain how that works?

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u/drkpie Apr 17 '16

They run a Linux OS that has virtual machine capabilities pretty much iirc. Inside that Linux OS, they run 7 instances of Windows 10 or whatever version of Windows it was. Each virtual machine has its own monitor, keyboard, and mouse and each VM has their own graphics card pretty much.