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Internet_Hero Jul 3, 2014 @ 11:59am
Is this split-screen?
It says local co-op and co-op.
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LgpMcFly Jul 3, 2014 @ 10:54pm 
Split-screen yes, vertical, horizontal.
You can't play offline LAN
If you have 2 monitors you can change to windowed version, set the split screen on vertical, pull the windows to the edge and use each display for each player.
This game is insane on multiplayer!
Support 4 players...
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Internet_Hero Jul 4, 2014 @ 1:37am 
Originally posted by -(SoD)-LgpMcFly:
Split-screen yes, vertical, horizontal.
You can't play offline LAN
If you have 2 monitors you can change to windowed version, set the split screen on vertical, pull the windows to the edge and use each display for each player.
This game is insane on multiplayer!
Support 4 players...

Thanks for the reply but I'm having performance issues during split-screen on campaign.

I'm running an

I5 2500k @ 3.3GHz
GTX 760 2gb
win 7 x64
8gb ram

The auto detect settings were set to ultra so I turned those down to high and I'm still having problems.
Last edited by Internet_Hero; Jul 4, 2014 @ 1:37am
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AlenL Jul 6, 2014 @ 10:47pm 
Have you tried turning it down even lower? Also, can you please define "performance issues" in a bit more detail?
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Internet_Hero Jul 7, 2014 @ 3:27am 
Originally posted by AlenL:
Have you tried turning it down even lower? Also, can you please define "performance issues" in a bit more detail?

It's mostly the framerate. I'm not really sure how to explain it. During split-screen I get about 20-35 frames and if I stand still it goes to 45-60 (depending if I look away from a certain area), I've tried the lowest settings and ultra and there doesn't seem to be a difference. I know to some 30 frames is okay but it feels lower and really choppy which then becomes a pain to aim/shoot at enemies.
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AlenL Jul 7, 2014 @ 5:19am 
Wait a minute... so both Ultra and Lowest run at the same FPS for you? That sounds strange. How are you measuring that?
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Internet_Hero Jul 7, 2014 @ 5:24am 
Originally posted by AlenL:
Wait a minute... so both Ultra and Lowest run at the same FPS for you? That sounds strange. How are you measuring that?

I use FRAPS but have also noticed you can turn on an fps meter on the in-game options. It's not exactly the same frames but it's not a big increase in FPS maybe around 5 frame increase?

I'll go on and get some accurate readings.
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Internet_Hero Jul 7, 2014 @ 5:33am 
Ultra settings split-screen co-op averaged a 21.5 whilst dropping to 17.2 that being it's lowest. I then set the settings to Lowest on everything and averaged a 45.5 whilst dropping to about 35 (FRAPS seemed to be inaccurate) but these were really inconsistent framerates so I had to just play around. Whilst these settings are "okay" but not as good as I'd want on a computer like mine (although it's not a brilliant PC) lowest can be quite painful on the eyes.

Is there anything I could do to boost framerate whilst keeping it a little pretty and comfortable on the eyeballs? ;-)
Last edited by Internet_Hero; Jul 7, 2014 @ 5:34am
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AlenL Jul 7, 2014 @ 2:17pm 
You might want to switch to DirectX11 or OpenGL and/or enable multithreaded rendering. Those are experimental, but might help.
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