Multiple Gaming Rigs, 1 installation for games?

[AsmodeusCruentus]

Heyyjooo!

so I've been having this idea for a long time...

Is there a Possibility to have my 3 Gaming rigs
(1- GTX 1080TI)
(2- 2x GTX 970)
(3- GTX 1060)
Connected to either a NAS(never set one up though)
or an online data storage where I can for an example.
Install World of Warcraft/PUBG/Far cry5/GTV and other Large & small games
but all 3 computers see that directory and access the game game installations?
To minimize the needed storage in every rig?

Regards
Asmodeus

 

[USAFRet]

1. It would need individual licenses for each 'use'
2. A game that is supposed to be installed internally WILL be subpar when trying to run it across your LAN.
3. Drive space is cheap. What do you have?

 

[AsmodeusCruentus]

1. It would need individual licenses for each 'use'
2. A game that is supposed to be installed internally WILL be subpar when trying to run it across your LAN.
3. Drive space is cheap. What do you have?

1. I'm aware it would need individual licensing, that was a given, and I'm not really thinking for Myself here,
cause my friends often either bring their rigs or gaming laptops over to my house, so it would be nice, if they maybe bought a game that I already had, so they could simply access this installation point, and could play the game.
2. No game really needs that anymore, excluding Battlefield 4 and such, most games can be run on any type of storage.
3. I know storage is cheap, but tedious to have a couple of TB in each rig, My own rig has 7.2TB which 2TB is ONLY games nothing else.

But my question was, if this is possible and how would I go about doing this.

 

[USAFRet]

But my question was, if this is possible and how would I go about doing this.

I've done this, sort of.
A network connected drive, a mapped drive letter to that storage space.

Give your mapped drive the N drive letter.
Install the game to that location.
You could setup individual folders for each client to run from.
I am unsure if all clients could share the same installed location.
You'd still need to 'install' in each client, to set up all the other things that happen. But you might be able to just "install" to the same folder each time.
Might.

I tried this with my NAS box a few months ago.
Designate a folder in the NAS, run the install on my PC, selecting that folder in the NAS for the location.
The game did not care where it was as long as it saw a valid drive letter and folder.
Performance wasn't the greatest, but it did run.

Multiple clients running from the same actual folder might work, it might not.
Try it.