Quote Originally Posted by =sw=warlord View Post
Or buy a pre owned Xbox for $80 plug in 4 game pads and just play instead of having to mess about with buying expensive hardware.
You can still play 4 player splitscreen on a HD 5870, but you'd probably need to turn down some settings or use the yitch3 configuration. In any case, that is the only way to get true online multiplayer splitscreen with unique ID's. A lot of people have, at the very least, one more monitor that they can use to get two player splitscreen on the same computer with reasonable performance on a mainstream GPU. My desktop ran two instances of COD 4 highest settings (AA turned off) on two separate screens with about 35 FPS avg for each instance. That's pretty good. All we need now is game devs to support it properly and optimize it so that it runs better than so that we don't need more expensive hardware.