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Some Steam games require little to no modification, just a direct invocation of the game's launcher. Others require a Steam API emulator: https://universalspli
by trynewideas 6y ago
Some Steam games require little to no modification, just a direct invocation of the game's launcher.
Others require a Steam API emulator: https://universalsplitscreen.github.io/docs/goldberg/ https://universalsplitscreen.github.io/docs/goldberg/
> Some games use Steam to prevent you from launching multiple instances, and some games use Steam for matchmaking, preventing you playing with one copy.
> The Goldberg emulator replaces the Steam API dll, tricking games into letting you launch multiple instances and join the same server.
There are also a few warnings on the site that the hooks used by universal split screen will likely trip anticheat software.
- akersten 6y ago> There are also a few warnings on the site that the hooks used by universal split screen will likely trip anticheat software. Yikes, they should make that warning more prominent. Like a big yellow banner across the top of the landing page. If you trip VAC for example, you're banned from online play for all of your VAC-enabled Steam games, IIRC. I imagine programs like this that do all sorts of weird Windows API plumbing/injection are pretty likely to look anomalous to even the most basic anti-cheat.
- judge2020 6y agoNo, you're only banned from playing the game that VAC detected a cheat in, unless it's a half-life or source based game where it bans you from related games using the same engine. http://www.vacbanned.com/static/information http://www.vacbanned.com/static/information Vac is also only triggered if you try to sign into VAC-secured servers and VAC detects a cheat. In the unlikely event that something like this is ever classified as a cheat (unlikely since valve manually detects and adds cheats to the blacklist), simply running a local server would not trigger a VAC ban.