Guild Wars 2

I’d rather not have to bother with a virtual machine if possible. My boyfriend and I are in a long distance relationship and he’s going to visit me in a few months. We both have desktops so he can’t bring his computer. Is there a way I could get the client to start up twice so I could use two monitors/keyboards/mice and we could login to our own accounts so that we could play while he’s here?

I think it is against Terms of Service to do that at the same time…not sure. I know people who do that, but they are playing alone and different clients separately by themselves.

It isn’t against TOS unless you somehow get a single keystroke to feed both apps. For instance having one with a character parked at the TP to allow you to interact with and alternate with another character doing content isn’t against TOS.

I’m not sure if the project still exists, but google MultiWars2.
But as already stated, you’re not allowed to create 2 actions with 1 key/mouseclick.

Thanathos.2063:

But as already stated, you’re not allowed to create 2 actions with 1 key/mouseclick.

Thats what I am thinking about…
I assume the OP means that there are 2 keyboards and 2 mouses, each operating separately on a sole VM client..am I correct ?
If thats the case, then there should be no problem.

You can’t set up two cursors and both keyboards would feed the same field, so no, it won’t work without setting up a virtual machine.

Maybe you should just use the time together into something else than GW2 (which I assume you play together when you are that long distance apart)? Just a suggestion

No you simply have the game running in two windows and alt-tab between them for input.

While you may perhaps be able to start GW2 twice on one PC, only one application can have the focus on a normal Windows PC at the same time.

If you connect 2 keyboards and 2 mice, all their input always goes into the application that has the focus. There is always only one focus. You cannot bind one keyboard+mouse to a running application and the other keyboard+mouse to different running application.

Even with the use of a virtual machine, you still have only one focus. Either your foreground GW2 has the focus or the GW2 that runs in the virtual machine has the focus.

Virtualization products usually provide remote access to virtual machines, making it possible to actually give 2 different persons individual access to different applications at the same time, but this requires a second PC in your home, and the performance of a graphics-heavy game like GW2 over the network is mediocre. Proper and enjoyable gameplay is not possible this way. If you get a second PC for this, it would be better to run the second copy of GW2 on it directly.

There are programs that allow you to use a second mouse and keyboard, I’ve already figured that out. But I guess there’s no easy way to run the client twice.

Edit: Ah, looking into MultiWars 2, looks promising.