Dear TH community,
I wanted to build one PC that could play 4 of the same game individually, to allow myself and 3 colleagues to LAN games. The idea came about when I wanted to see an alternative to the four of us lugging all our hardware to each house. I know that virtual machines have been around for a while, but I recently stumbled across some dual-HDMI cards from AMD (Sapphire R7's = $70) that can play two separate HDMI inputs on one computer.
I got to thinking, if I had two of these cards in one PC, using some form of VM software, and enough power, I could run a 4 player LAN party off of one PC. I am not talking about graphics-intensive games here, maybe Dead Island would require the most at best.
Can this be done? If so, how would I work about the "LAN" situation? Four ethernet ports off of one PC to a switch, but how would my PC register each game as a separate IP?
I wanted to build one PC that could play 4 of the same game individually, to allow myself and 3 colleagues to LAN games. The idea came about when I wanted to see an alternative to the four of us lugging all our hardware to each house. I know that virtual machines have been around for a while, but I recently stumbled across some dual-HDMI cards from AMD (Sapphire R7's = $70) that can play two separate HDMI inputs on one computer.
I got to thinking, if I had two of these cards in one PC, using some form of VM software, and enough power, I could run a 4 player LAN party off of one PC. I am not talking about graphics-intensive games here, maybe Dead Island would require the most at best.
Can this be done? If so, how would I work about the "LAN" situation? Four ethernet ports off of one PC to a switch, but how would my PC register each game as a separate IP?
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