Run 2 different games on 2 different computers

[Strathaird]

I have 2 different systems that I use for games, I have a windows 10 laptop and a mac, running Windows 10. I play GTA V on my Mac and I have been idling Clicker Heroes online on my Windows computer, but since Flash Player has ended, I can't play Clicker Heroes online anymore, so I play it through Steam.
Is there a way to play Clicker Heroes on my Windows and GTA V on my Mac simultaneously?

[ReBoot]

Run one of them using offline mode. Or just run them simultaneously on the same PC, that works.

[Strathaird]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Run one of them using offline mode. Or just run them simultaneously on the same PC, that works.

How do you do that exactly? Sorry, I'm new to steam

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Strathaird:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Run one of them using offline mode. Or just run them simultaneously on the same PC, that works.

How do you do that exactly? Sorry, I'm new to steam

You start a game, you alttab out, you start another game. Viola.

[Strathaird]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by Strathaird:

How do you do that exactly? Sorry, I'm new to steam

You start a game, you alttab out, you start another game. Viola.

I meant playing 2 games on 2 different devices

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Strathaird:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

You start a game, you alttab out, you start another game. Viola.

I meant playing 2 games on 2 different devices

As I said, use offline mode.
Why don't you want to idle one of the games on the same PC as you playing the other game on? That's the easiest way.

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

Yes Strathaird.

Log in computer 1.

Start game.

Log OUT.

Log in computer 2.

Start game

S.x.

[Strathaird]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by Strathaird:

I meant playing 2 games on 2 different devices

As I said, use offline mode.
Why don't you want to idle one of the games on the same PC as you playing the other game on? That's the easiest way.

I would be doing it on the same computer, but my Mac would be going insane 24/7

[Mikewjt]

This is ridiculous. Epic launcher, while widely panned by Steam fanboys, allows this. As long as you are not playing the same exact game, it works fine.

Offline is a fine workaround until both the games use the Steam friends list. Then it all falls apart. There is no reason why family sharing can't allow multiple users to play different games.

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

Hi Mike,

Regrettably the rationale is that could lead to abuse of the system. If you had a "family" of five gamers they'd only have to ever buy one copy of the game unless they wanted to play simultaneously. There are workrounds with offline but basically the system is strongly weighted towards separate account AND game per player. The punishments on malfeasance are draconian - primarily to discourage abuse - but having a separate account with separate copies per player protects you from everything apart from game donation bans.

Family sharing is barely tolerated by a lot of devs anyway.

S.x.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Mikewjt:

This is ridiculous. Epic launcher, while widely panned by Steam fanboys, allows this. As long as you are not playing the same exact game, it works fine.

Offline is a fine workaround until both the games use the Steam friends list. Then it all falls apart. There is no reason why family sharing can't allow multiple users to play different games.

It is to prevent abuse.

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by Mikewjt:

This is ridiculous. Epic launcher, while widely panned by Steam fanboys, allows this. As long as you are not playing the same exact game, it works fine.

Offline is a fine workaround until both the games use the Steam friends list. Then it all falls apart. There is no reason why family sharing can't allow multiple users to play different games.

Then stick with epic. Not a hard decision to make.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Mikewjt:

This is ridiculous. Epic launcher, while widely panned by Steam fanboys, allows this. As long as you are not playing the same exact game, it works fine.

Offline is a fine workaround until both the games use the Steam friends list. Then it all falls apart. There is no reason why family sharing can't allow multiple users to play different games.

That's probably one of the reasons their store is losing money like crazy and they aren't getting many people buying games....

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

Originally posted by brian9824:

Originally posted by Mikewjt:

This is ridiculous. Epic launcher, while widely panned by Steam fanboys, allows this. As long as you are not playing the same exact game, it works fine.

Offline is a fine workaround until both the games use the Steam friends list. Then it all falls apart. There is no reason why family sharing can't allow multiple users to play different games.

That's probably one of the reasons their store is losing money like crazy and they aren't getting many people buying games....

Or the limited inventory, unattractive layout, prices which on the games they actually sell are more expensive than Steam, lack of reviews, lack of discussion pages, lack of community features, and being partially owned and influenced (de facto) by a regime that suppresses free speech and has faced repeated allegations of genocide.

Or they may just have given away so many free games no-one can see the point of buying them anymore.

Reasons ...

S.x.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Steam doesn't let you do this because of what Gallifrey explained; the idea is that this prevents people from using one Steam account to share games across multiple people.

Like others said, you might be able to get away with this if you can "hide" one of computers from the Steam network while it's running a game, while you run your other game on another computer, but this isn't necessarily a practical workaround. Though the fact that it might not be practical is, well, kinda the point, though obviously it messes up people who legitimately do want to run two different games on two different computers simultaneously. (And given how I know someone who had a bad habit of playing Monster Hunter and 100% Orange Juice at the same time, I understand how this is plausible.)

I would suggest buying games that are DRM-free, so they would allow you to run them any way you like, but I guess you could also...

Originally posted by Mikewjt:

This is ridiculous. Epic launcher, while widely panned by Steam fanboys, allows this. As long as you are not playing the same exact game, it works fine.

Offline is a fine workaround until both the games use the Steam friends list. Then it all falls apart. There is no reason why family sharing can't allow multiple users to play different games.

...buy from Epic instead lol. Not that I can personally vouch for them though since I haven't gotten anything from them.

[Mikewjt]

And yet developers keep putting their games on the Epic launcher. Please elaborate on the perceived abuse? IMO this is no different from the physical media days where only one person could play the game at a time even if it were installed on more than one machine.

Family sharing has a user and device limit. I still don't see any reason for Steam to not allow me to play more than one game at a time. Especially F2P games.