Playing 2 accounts on 1 PC using 2 monitors, possible?

Hi there,

Im going on vacation to california along with my bf, and im wondering if we can use his PC (top gaming PC) to play ffxiv while we are away from town? My idea is two use his PC with multiple monitors (2), can that be done? I use multiple monitors at work, but, my concern is, that, when you are working on 1 monitor, the 2nd monitor is out of any command. So, i really don't know if that's possible; i'd have to click on 2nd monitor in order for him to gain access to his character.

Thanks in advance! :p

If you run Linux it could be done, but not in Windows. In Linux you'd just need to set up two different Wine profiles for each XIV install. Setting those up, though, would be a bit of work.

Not possible on Windows, no. Can only one run instance of the game at a time.

This can be done on Mac in bootcamp. I know it's of little help since he probably doesn't have a mac but as others have said using Wine (similar to bootcamp) might work.

If it works on a bootcamped verion of windows it might be possible

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Not possible on Windows, no. Can only one run instance of the game at a time.

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Yea, totally not possible. how about this, don't talk about stuff you don't know anything about.

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Originally Posted by Haibel

Yea, totally not possible. how about this, don't talk about stuff you don't know anything about.

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Would you care to share any knowledge you might have or just say hahaha look what I can do, I'm smart and your not, na na na boo boo.

Edit: Ok, since people seem to think I'm honestly asking a question I feel the need to elaborate what I'm trying to say. My point was it was pointless for them to post a picture of them running two programs at once since it doesn't answer the OP's question at all. Not only does it not answer their question but it shows them doing something the OP doesn't know how to do and is asking about. What I was implying was that they should post some information in regards to the question instead of a picture of them running two programs showing it can be done. That is all....thank you.

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Yeah, I've run 3 XIV ARR's at once on my PC. Thing is though, depending on PC having 2 or more XIVs up will lag either instance at times.

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Originally Posted by Battlewrench

Would you care to share any knowledge you might have or just say hahaha look what I can do, I'm smart and your not, na na na boo boo.

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Click your Launcher..log into 1 account. Click launcher again, log into another account. Quite simple :P

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Originally Posted by Tupsi

Click your Launcher..log into 1 account. Click launcher again, log into another account. Quite simple :P

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Was just saying that instead of posting a pic of them having done it maybe they could have told the person who asked how to do it. Probably could have made my point somewhat clearer.

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Originally Posted by Battlewrench

Would you care to share any knowledge you might have or just say hahaha look what I can do, I'm smart and your not, na na na boo boo.

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Start another Instance of the Game, after you have logged in. Works fine for me and is actually also to find in the Support Centre click.

Too many people missed the point of my post lol, failed attempt by me making a smartarse comment I guess.

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Originally Posted by Tupsi

Yeah, I've run 3 XIV ARR's at once on my PC. Thing is though, depending on PC having 2 or more XIVs up will lag either instance at times.



Click your Launcher..log into 1 account. Click launcher again, log into another account. Quite simple :P

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What he's really wanting is to control multiple characters. which you can do with some 3rd party tools to send mirrored controls to each
instance. I wouldn't suggest doing it though. Watched a dude have the ban hammer come down on him for controlling 8 players at one time
spiritbonding around northern thalan.

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Originally Posted by Battlewrench

Was just saying that instead of posting a pic of them having done it maybe they could have told the person who asked how to do it. Probably could have made my point somewhat clearer.

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Pretty sure she/he was directing that post at towards Alhanelem

As for you initial post, you can run two instances on run pc as stated above but as to using two sets of keyboard/mouses is a different story, i would assume that's where linux comes into it

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Originally Posted by Haibel

Yea, totally not possible. how about this, don't talk about stuff you don't know anything about.

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I will freely admit to not knowing about this as Windows has classically thrown the most vivid of caniption fits when you try to run multiple instances of the same program from the same program, and sometimes from different installs of the same program. It's not really known for it. Clearly that is no longer the case.

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Originally Posted by gintoki88

Pretty sure she/he was directing that post at towards Alhanelem

As for you initial post, you can run two instances on run pc as stated above but as to using two sets of keyboard/mouses is a different story, i would assume that's where linux comes into it

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I was directing to Alhanelem and I'll go back and quote to avoid more confusion. As to using mutli or single input control. it's gonna take some setting up.
You can find info to do it out on them interwebs. Again I wouldn't suggest Single input to multi characters. That is borderline botting. It will get you permabanned.

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Originally Posted by Gilraen

I will freely admit to not knowing about this as Windows has classically thrown the most vivid of caniption fits when you try to run multiple instances of the same program from the same program, and sometimes from different installs of the same program. It's not really known for it. Clearly that is no longer the case.

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It was more of a Direct X problem then a windows problem. Either way what he's wanting to do is gonna take some work and know how to do.
Don't matter what OS your using. which I wouldn't share anyway, not going to give potential TOS violating information out here.

The only way I could see that working is if one person used a game pad and the other mouse / keyboard. IIRC the game pad can be told to control FFXIV window thats in the background (non active window on second screen in this case), and as long as game pad controls are disabled on the active window the mouse / keyboard should only control the active window, while the gamepad controls the second window.

Two mouse / keyboards sound like way more of a headache to set up then just bringing a second PC.

use virtual machines

It's possible, but you would need about 16 gigs of ram, a killer video card, and your Host OS would need to be X64 Windows, e.g. Windows 7 X64 or Windows 8 X64. And you would want something like Windows XP for the Virtual Machine (before driver signing).

Get Virtual Box, Install it.

Create a Virtual Machine, Install Windows XP to it. Enable direct 3d in virtual box.

Install FFXIV on the Virtual Machine.

Copy the virtual machine's VDI/VHD image, use

vboxmanage internalcommands sethduuid "imagename.ext"

Create a new virtual machine using the copied image.

Run Both VM's at the same time, put one on each monitor, run FFXIV * 2.

Option 1: You can use sandybox. All you need is 2 controler or 1 controler and 1 keyboard/mouse. I've played V1.0 that way and it's extremely easy to set up. Option 2 : You use Windows! as explained in previous post. FFXIV ARR has a setup option to choose which controler you want to use so it's simple enough already. I used to play with my wife and V1.0 was taxing way more than ARR Back then i only had 3x 9800 GTX+ in sli. So i highly doubt a high end top pc would have a hard time running ARR x2.