03-05-2026, 09:14 PM
Hi!
My two cents here.
I find that my laptop's keyboard is much more likely to suffer from ghosting than a regular USB keyboard. In either case, you should probably test for ghosting. I couldn't find a native Linux solution for that, so I have used this website. Try to test for keypress combinations that you'd actually use in game (unlike say, accelerating and braking at the same time, nobody does that).
If I understand correctly, if you have each player on a separate keyboard, they still have to use different key configurations, but there should be no issue of ghosting between them. If they're both on the same keyboard, they one player's input might interfere with the other. It might be impossible for two players to share the laptop's keyboard, but sharing the USB keyboard should be doable. Usually, when playing games like that, one player takes the letters, and the other uses arrows + numpad.
If you're buying controllers, make sure they are USB controllers. You can't normally use an original PS1 controller, as it doesn't have an USB plug. But I have had USB controllers from several different brands, that were styled after PS1 controllers, and they all worked no problemo with STK and other games on Linux.
I suspect freddiestarr is asking about players on the same LAN connecting to a server on the Internet. I have seen games that struggle with that, so I know where that question might be coming from. But I do know that it is possible for players on the same computer to connect to an STK server on the Internet.
My two cents here.
I find that my laptop's keyboard is much more likely to suffer from ghosting than a regular USB keyboard. In either case, you should probably test for ghosting. I couldn't find a native Linux solution for that, so I have used this website. Try to test for keypress combinations that you'd actually use in game (unlike say, accelerating and braking at the same time, nobody does that).
If I understand correctly, if you have each player on a separate keyboard, they still have to use different key configurations, but there should be no issue of ghosting between them. If they're both on the same keyboard, they one player's input might interfere with the other. It might be impossible for two players to share the laptop's keyboard, but sharing the USB keyboard should be doable. Usually, when playing games like that, one player takes the letters, and the other uses arrows + numpad.
If you're buying controllers, make sure they are USB controllers. You can't normally use an original PS1 controller, as it doesn't have an USB plug. But I have had USB controllers from several different brands, that were styled after PS1 controllers, and they all worked no problemo with STK and other games on Linux.
I suspect freddiestarr is asking about players on the same LAN connecting to a server on the Internet. I have seen games that struggle with that, so I know where that question might be coming from. But I do know that it is possible for players on the same computer to connect to an STK server on the Internet.