I just took this a little further with 3 player so far. But that original post about the LZDoom update adds the info about the r_multithreaded command. I found out those console commands thanks to TDRR on the forum as noted in the vid description. Set player two to use the gamepad (left stick to move, right one to look around) and give the focus to player one, works for DInput and SDL.

You need a dual core CPU, you'll probably get the best results using software D3D and setting 'r_multithreaded' to 0. with ZDL), one with -host 2 and another one with '-join 127.0.0.1'. For me, one screen always seems to take full priority (well, last time I tried it anyway which was ages ago now)įrom here (note this actually only works in LZDoom, GZDoom doesn't actually support this atm iirc):Fake splitscreen support: you need to enable the 'vid_activeinbackground', 'i_soundinbackground' and the new 'joy_background' cvars.Start two copies of LZDoom from different folders (e.g. Dude, that is awesome! You gotta tell us how you managed it.

Is doom 4 split screen