Playing 2+ games of GW on one screen

crazy diamond

crazy diamond

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

I've gotten pretty tired of the hassle I have to go through to swap items and money between my multiple accounts, as I always have to rely on someone else as a go-between.

Is there any known method of running two instances of Guild Wars at the same time on the same machine? It would help a lot sorting out things between my multiple accounts.

Someone explained to me that I could do it by creating multiple users on Win, and run a game under each user, but that seems like too much trouble. I'm looking to see if theres a simpler alternative anyone might know about.

Anyone have any ideas?

Bladvak

Bladvak

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2005

R/Mo

Only way you can do this is have 2 comps.

crazy diamond

crazy diamond

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bladvak
Only way you can do this is have 2 comps.
Have you actually tried it? As I mentioned before, I already have someone who tells me it can be done. It's just that what he describes seems like too much of a hassle when the whole idea is to simplify things for me.

Reaper

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2005

We Drink Tequila

Mo/N

Someone posted on this before. Can't say whether it works or not, or even if it's safe, but here it is:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=27103

Kayelyyb

Kayelyyb

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2006

Founder of Nerfs Are [Whak]

N/Me

I have tried it with guild wars loaded on one hard drive and tried to load it on seperate harddrive on same pc it asked if i wanted t oremove the program on harddrive 1 and install it on harddrive 2... i was hoping for the same thing u r wanting to do.

crazy diamond

crazy diamond

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Reaper
Someone posted on this before. Can't say whether it works or not, or even if it's safe, but here it is:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=27103
Yeah, thats the one I was told about previously. I was hoping I wouldn't have to go through all that to do it though.

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by crazy diamond
Yeah, thats the one I was told about previously. I was hoping I wouldn't have to go through all that to do it though.
there is a much better one which i will try to find if search is up.

crazy diamond

crazy diamond

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Loviatar
there is a much better one which i will try to find if search is up.
Guess we're gonna have to wait then, lol.

bad person

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

It is possible, yes...I have 2 instances of the game running on my system almost all the time. There is a post here about setting it up, but you'll need a hex editor and will need to create a new folder for the 2nd instance. Keep in mind that it will be like you just installed the game for the first time, so everything will take a while to load at first.

boxterduke

boxterduke

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

Walking the ruins of Ascalon

DVDF

Me/

Is this the one?
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=70999

crazy diamond

crazy diamond

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by boxterduke
The user based one actually seems like less trouble, since you apparently have to redo this one everytime the game updates.

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by boxterduke
yes it is.

i have a Snagit image but it was too big to imageshack and link.

thank you

crazy diamond

crazy diamond

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

Anyone wouldn't happen to have the GW_Loader.exe from that link anywhere now would they?

The link in the thread doesn't work for me.

96TSi

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Fort Worth

Clowns of Wrath[CoW]

W/R

Please, I urge you who are not familiar with editing your registry to AVOID IT!!!

your computer registry is like the spinal cord of your body. a simple touch or alter by the hands of a inexperienced user will parylize your entire system. please know what you are doing before you even go in there to look.

crazy diamond

crazy diamond

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

Aye, thats why I'm reluctant about that particular method. I have dabbled with the registry enough that I'm pretty confident dealing with it, but I still prefer to avoid it whenever possible.

Witchblade

Witchblade

Polar Bear Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

i can easily launch or more copies of GW on my comp
if u need a hand ... but u wont need loader and stuff, dont dl weird stuff, that's how u loose an acc

basically, u need 2 GW folders and a tool to find and stop the handle that prevent another copy from loading (ur comp ll think GW isnt running since the handle is stopped and ll let u run another)

u also need to edit ur registry since 2 folders=2 differents paths

u can save the modif in 2 reg files so u wont have to load regedit and do the edit... takes a few secs to load both gws

works perfectly

edit: read the url above.. looks more complicated..Hexedit etc..