Two instances from one PC

[Shootmeplease]

<p>My PC can handle running two instances of eq2 from one machine without lag, recently I decided to purchase another copy of Eq2.  I've been trying to put on toon on auto follow and alt tab to switch between instances.  It works pretty well for the most part, however follow messes up at times and my toon on follow starts running in big circles instead of following the main.  Does anyone know why this is?</p><p> Anyone have suggestions how to do it any different or ways to improve the follow?</p>

[Wilde_Night]

<p>Do you have the one following on first person view?  Following is borked sometimes from swimming or other anomolies.  I've found keeping the follower in first person is best and they do not get as confused.</p>

[Oldlore]

Putting the second person in first person view seems to make /follow more accurate in the water.  May help with the other situations.  There are some areas that are just buggy pathing-wise but they're few and far between.

[NiteWolfe]

<cite>Shootmeplease wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>My PC can handle running two instances of eq2 from one machine without lag, recently I decided to purchase another copy of Eq2.  I've been trying to put on toon on auto follow and alt tab to switch between instances.  It works pretty well for the most part, however follow messes up at times and my toon on follow starts running in big circles instead of following the main.  Does anyone know why this is?</p><p> Anyone have suggestions how to do it any different or ways to improve the follow?</p></blockquote> i do this all the time with 3 accounts all in 3rd person view with no problems

[erin]

<cite>Oldlore wrote:</cite><blockquote>Putting the second person in first person view seems to make /follow more accurate in the water.  May help with the other situations.  There are some areas that are just buggy pathing-wise but they're few and far between.</blockquote>Yes I find this helps a lot.  Its basically a game bug, sometimes follow goes crazy.  First person, especially in water, works well, but no matter what you do, sometimes follow goes crazy, in water, on land... I've died many times with this bug.Oh forgot, it doesn't matter that you are on one PC.  I've got the same prob on multiple PCs.

[Kasar]

<cite>Shootmeplease wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>My PC can handle running two instances of eq2 from one machine without lag, recently I decided to purchase another copy of Eq2.  I've been trying to put on toon on auto follow and alt tab to switch between instances.  It works pretty well for the most part, however follow messes up at times and my toon on follow starts running in big circles instead of following the main.  Does anyone know why this is?</p><p> Anyone have suggestions how to do it any different or ways to improve the follow?</p></blockquote>That's usually system performance, when I tried two on my old machine, it'd do that, the following toon would run in circles and clear the area as it tried to path back to the first character.  With my current machine, I can run three instances without any problems with autofollow.  Using a gamepad I can alt-tab pretty quickly and have combined keys on 1-4.  I actually don't do it much anymore, I find it about as much fun as soloing since that's what it is, but sometimes you just need a little more to finish a quest.  I do have a bit of lag at times with three, but not enough to bork autofollow.If you go slow, anticipating that one instance will have to catch up at times, it should work ok.  I used to try and make sure in dungeons that the following toon was lined up to follow pretty much in a straight line, which seemed to help.

[Kasar]

<cite>erin wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite></cite>Yes I find this helps a lot.  Its basically a game bug, sometimes follow goes crazy.  First person, especially in water, works well, but no matter what you do, sometimes follow goes crazy, in water, on land... I've died many times with this bug.Oh forgot, it doesn't matter that you are on one PC.  I've got the same prob on multiple PCs.</blockquote>I see it with two machines as well.  My older machine's client just doesn't respond as quickly, sometimes a fight's a couple seconds old before the first swing registers.  A following toon seems to get into a seeking mode where it's overshooting repeatedly which causes the circling.

[Noxxia]

Eh, I just run three machines, two LT's and a DT. I like to see the different views and I use usb number pads to launch spells from my alts.

[Targ]

<p>Auto follow goes insane during combat if you move. I think because the movement fuctions change. Any way the best thing to do is to turn autofollow off during combat. Add  the command /stopfollow to your attack macro.  This will stop the following character from running around. </p><p>You will want a macro to put your character back on follow. Here is a good macro for that:</p><p>: ; follow Main_name ; CLE ; autoattack 0 ;</p><p>The CLE will cancel any qued up spells so you don't start something you don't intend. The auto attack 0 will take the toon out of combat mode if it did not exit at the end of combat.</p>

[Darsat]

<cite>Targ wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>You will want a macro to put your character back on follow. Here is a good macro for that:</p><p>: ; follow Main_name ; CLE ; autoattack 0 ;</p><p><b>The CLE will cancel any qued up spells</b> so you don't start something you don't intend. The auto attack 0 will take the toon out of combat mode if it did not exit at the end of combat.</p></blockquote>Thank you for the info there.  You dont know how much trouble me and my wife (we both 3 box to do a whole group) have gotten into with spells being qued up and fireing off when the mages are assisting through the tank.  Had a nice train yesterday in unrest after one flew off and aggroed quite a bit of the bar.   

[azekah]

I have a question, how do you run two instances from one pc, do you have to install it to another directory? Or can you just run it twice?I'm at work, so I'm can't test it out...

[Zard]

<p>Just launch it twice.</p>