How to run 2 copies of Guild Wars

Theres a couple of ways...

1) If you are experienced and can use a hex editor and know how to create .reg files, you can do it yourself, this is however very risky and may not always work.

2) You can post here, or come onto irc.WorldGamers.Net ( #GuildWars ) and ask me niceley.

I have hex'd the GW.exe (will have to do it each time theres a new patch) and can now run 2 copies of guild wars, Im not putting the zip for manual download (IRC > DCC only) because of the risks and potential risks involved... I have a disclaimer in the read me should it appear on any websites but i use it, and the picture below should show that it works, I took it using a camera, instead of a Print Screen to prove theres no photo shopping trickery or anything...




If you would like to beable to do this, pop onto IRC, and ask me, I can also then offer help if you cant get it sorted.

What purpose would this serve if you only have one copy of the game?

And is this legal?

It only works on two seperate accounts. This allows you to swap items between accounts without jumping onto a different computer.

They "maybe" emplementing a guild storage or sumthing... so if you have a guild that would help you out.

and yes its At your own risk type deal.

Can we see your desktop instead ;p

can you minimize the GW windows so we can see the wall paper?

better yet, post that wall paper for us

Yeah, let's see the desktop.

But, really, I'd rather not take a cracked .exe which potentially has a keylogger. I'd rather figure out a way to do this myself.

If only they would just allow us to buy more slots for our existing accounts. Cant see what the hold up is for making this happen. No unlocking of things all over again and they would still get the requisite amount of income they need per character file as relates to disk space. Just divide the cost of a new game by 4 and make each new character cost that. Who wouldnt pay $10 for another character slot as a one time fee? Works out to be the same as buying a second copy of the game, but infinitely better.

Besides, I think my PC would explode if I try to do something like this.

Me

3 PvE and 1 PvP work fine

Aww. You're no fun. No cookie for you. But that's ok, since I'd buy 4 lol. Averages out.

the beauty of this is, I have 2 accounts, i want to run one account through the game using my main account,

I want to swap items between accounts...

And as for a potential key logger, sure, i understand, all i can offer is my personal assurance that it contains nothing like that, which is also the only reason i will only offer it via IRC and DCC, because if a website offers it for download, they could have modified it.. anyone is welcome to check the exe thierselves, ill even tell anyone who asks how i did it, (but not public)

you dont have to go thru any of that. just install it on a second windows account an you can run it twice simultaniously. you just have to switch accounts and viola...

Uh - how would you dupe gold using two different accounts just because they're running on one machine?

well the way i posted is 100% legal. if you 'dup' with it its not, but if you have 2 accounts and use them to trade w/each other its perfectly legal.

The method of running it on 2 user accounts is very long winded, and you cant run them simultaniously (at the exact same time) it takes alot to do it, registry edit this, change that, copy this... etc..

and what, if like me, you dont want loads more windows shit clogging shit up and its YOUR PC and no one else uses it, and you have it on one account and thats how you want it to stay?

And like you said, you gotta mess around switching between accounts, which takes a while.. i USED to use this method, and the only reason I did this little thing was so i diddnt have to mess around with a second account, i could just start them up, and BAM, its there...

But i guess its personal preference, and what you want....

and saying about duping... that doesnt stop shit, you could still do it with a friend, or a second computer.. or such like... (not that i have, not that i know how to or even that it was (still) possible)

Duping has to do with using the SAME account on one machine at the same time on multipule instances. this technique also works that way... and that's a problem... What I saying is this was something we discovered in Beta. I would just hate to see this happening in Live play now... It really hurts a Game when stuff starts getting duped. Like I said If you exploit it, you will get nailed. and the temptation to do so is very high. But if you use it for a legitimate purpose it is your choice. will not change the fact that if Anet catches you at it, it will be no different to you then if you did use it to dup items or gold... That's all I'm saying.

Though it seems innocent, the repercussions are too great...

But its not the same account, its 2 seperate accounts.. you cannot log into the same account at the same time with 2 instances, It logs you out of the first one if you even attempt to...

ok so this is not what I thought it was then then, I was worried this was something we came across quite some time ago, and its something completly diffenert. sorry.

If you want I'll delete the above posts...

Its ok.. (and i knew what you were talking about in the betas, i was in the betas for almost 2 years )

Ghozer is right, I've tried: you can't log in to one account twice.

You CAN run two instances of one account, by spoofing ID, but what you'll get is the exact same game in two instances, so that doesn't really allow duping either.

If one could dupe this way, you can bet people like our botter friends wouldn't be out farming, they'd be duping their heads off.