Two keyboard users playing together possible?

[紫八雲 Yukari Yakumo]

Remote Play seems to require at least one of the two players to use a controller instead of a keyboard. How can I, and a friend, both use our own keyboards respectively as player 1 and player 2, in games?

Details: Whenever one of us activates remote play, our keyboards input become shared when it's allowed and we both are "player 1", which stops us from being able to play together. It makes remote play unusable if neither of us can or want to use a controller instead of a keyboard.
Do I need to wait for an update, that registers the guest player's keyboard and mouse as his instead of mine, or have I failed to find the critical information I need during my researches?

I tried using "-multikeyboard" in the game's "Set Lunch Options...", it did not work.

Suggestion: If no solution are found for this problem yet, a "Use keyboard as controller" option, that allows to register one or more local keyboards as different controllers for the game, could help. And would allow the use of two keyboards locally to play together, as well.

Thanks for the help.

[HarmonicKaydence]

I also had this issue. I hope Steam comes up with an easier solution but I guess I'll have to try Tomato's suggestion... By the time I do, I hope covid vaccines are out for everyone and friends can play together in person

[PitProk]

Originally posted by TomatoInExile:

Found a Solution - I don't know if it is late, but have a solution buried deep in google searches. I felt disheartened when I didn't find solution for myself on this thread. So, I searched more and came back with a solution. Maybe it helps you as well.

The problem is how we can set 2 keyboards giving 2 separate inputs or how to make OS recognize the two keyboards as separate devices. I have also used it in a game which was earlier controlling same player with multiple keyboards.

Solution 1 (tested & working): This guy has made/found a small software for users to make the additional keyboard to be recognized as an controller in a system:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hvoFs_amT8

Solution 2 (not tested):- https://support.parsecgaming.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012652092-Playing-Games-With-Two-Keyboards-Emulating-A-Controller-With-A-Keyboard

This can be used with a single keyboard. The only downside is that while keyboard splitter is running, you can't use your keyboard for anything outside the game.

[Rasto Traktor]

yes

[clyde]

only keyboard, no mouse right?

[Cy]

I ended up using Xmodmap and uinput to temporarily bind WSAD on remote keyboard to arrow keys, etc, and mouse events to joystick events - as long as we consider games that allow 2 players to play on the same keyboard or 2nd player to play on joystick, it works fine on system level, no extra software required.

[sparkcloud]

Originally posted by TomatoInExile:

Found a Solution - I don't know if it is late, but have a solution buried deep in google searches. I felt disheartened when I didn't find solution for myself on this thread. So, I searched more and came back with a solution. Maybe it helps you as well.

The problem is how we can set 2 keyboards giving 2 separate inputs or how to make OS recognize the two keyboards as separate devices. I have also used it in a game which was earlier controlling same player with multiple keyboards.

Solution 1 (tested & working): This guy has made/found a small software for users to make the additional keyboard to be recognized as an controller in a system:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hvoFs_amT8

Solution 2 (not tested):- https://support.parsecgaming.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012652092-Playing-Games-With-Two-Keyboards-Emulating-A-Controller-With-A-Keyboard

I'd also like to mention a quick note for users who are visiting this post on a windows 11 machine who are having issues launching the application.

For those on Windows 11 that are having trouble with keyboardsplitter launching, You need to download and install the Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013. This is a free download and you need to download and install the two executables for the vcredis for x64 and x86 architectures. After that's done the executable should launch without issues for Keyboard splitter

**Link to Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013**
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784

[[RS] WhiteHorse]

See this steam suggestion that would also help on this topic.
Hereby the link to upvote:
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/4406291330027710518/

[Focsangeles]

gg