Playing 2+ games of GW on one screen

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

Guess we're gonna have to wait then, lol.

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.

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

The user based one actually seems like less trouble, since you apparently have to redo this one everytime the game updates.

yes it is.

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

thank you

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.

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.

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.

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..