Station Laucher and multiple installs

[Theodrec]

<p>I have two accounts and two install locations.  Previously I could set install location in preferences by individual log in name.  For some reason it now only asks if I would like all my files MOVED to the newly checked location.</p><p>I did not notice this was happening and have accidentally moved files away from my main directory and had them placed over my second account directory.</p><p>Has something changed?  I do not want files moved, I want the patcher to scan the location I tell it to - not move my installation.</p>

[TSR-DanielH]

<p>Greetings,</p><p>If you start the game using the EQ2.exe file then you should be able to run from 2 seperate install locations.  Doing it that way you could keep a seperate shortcut for each and start them independently.  I do not know if it will be possible to install in seperate locations using the current version of the station launcher.</p>

[Barx]

<p>You can use two different install locations, you just have to use two different patcher installs as I recall. I had an old install on my OS (C<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> drive that I later converted to test and an install on a different drive. Maybe they have to be on a different drive for the two installs to work, I have not extensively tested it.</p><p>Bear in mind this is using the old EQ2 launcher, not the newly-out-of-beta station launcher.</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p>If you don;t care about running out of the same instance, what I have worked around with and it works - launch the patcher, sign in, then launch eq2 and let it log, windows out, logout of the launcher then login with the second account and launch eq2, two instances with different logons with 1 launcher.  </p>

[Theodrec]

<p>Well, I used to do what you guys are saying, yet since reinstalling through station launcher a few months back I no longer have an EQ2.exe patcher.</p><p>Neither of my install locations have the traditional patcher.  They are on separate hard drives.  Thing is, previously I could set install location in preferences by log in name.  Log in for one and the install location would be one place - log out and back in under different account and the second install location was remembered correctly.</p><p>If I had the traditional patcher I would have no issue.  Is it still available?</p>

[TSR-DanielH]

<p>If you need the eq2.exe file then you can get it at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://everquest2.station.sony.com/index.vm?reinstall=yes" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://everquest2.station.sony.com/...m?reinstall=yes</a></p><p>I believe if you just place it in the Everquest 2 folder and run the EQ2.exe then that should accomplish what you're trying to do.</p>

[Theodrec]

<p><cite>TSR-DanielH wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>If you need the eq2.exe file then you can get it at the following link:</p><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://everquest2.station.sony.com/index.vm?reinstall=yes" target="_blank">http://everquest2.station.sony.com/...m?reinstall=yes</a></p><p>I believe if you just place it in the Everquest 2 folder and run the EQ2.exe then that should accomplish what you're trying to do.</p></blockquote><p>That is link to a setup.exe file which asks to remove, repair, or modify.  Repair and modify neither provide my directory with traditional eq2.exe patcher.</p>

[Theodrec]

<p><cite>Wingrider01 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>If you don;t care about running out of the same instance, what I have worked around with and it works - launch the patcher, sign in, then launch eq2 and let it log, windows out, logout of the launcher then login with the second account and launch eq2, two instances with different logons with 1 launcher.</p></blockquote><p>Hmm, this I could do and did do when I could save different install locations by log in.  I cannot do this now because it would attempt to launch game out of the same install that is already running - is this what you mean by "out of the same instance".</p><p>I would not want to do that if it is even possible.</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>Theodrec wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Wingrider01 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>If you don;t care about running out of the same instance, what I have worked around with and it works - launch the patcher, sign in, then launch eq2 and let it log, windows out, logout of the launcher then login with the second account and launch eq2, two instances with different logons with 1 launcher.</p></blockquote><p>Hmm, this I could do and did do when I could save different install locations by log in.  I cannot do this now because it would attempt to launch game out of the same install that is already running - is this what you mean by "out of the same instance".</p><p>I would not want to do that if it is even possible.</p></blockquote><p>launches out of the same install, have had 4 copies running on a OC'd I7. The forum for the launchpad shows that they might allow multiple launch locations but it does not seem high on the priority list. Is there a specific reason why you are against launching multiple copies out of the same install? Have benchmarked both methods, the perfromance hit is minor on a box that has enough capabilities to run eq2.</p>

[Theodrec]

<p><cite>Wingrider01 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Theodrec wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Wingrider01 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>If you don;t care about running out of the same instance, what I have worked around with and it works - launch the patcher, sign in, then launch eq2 and let it log, windows out, logout of the launcher then login with the second account and launch eq2, two instances with different logons with 1 launcher.</p></blockquote><p>Hmm, this I could do and did do when I could save different install locations by log in.  I cannot do this now because it would attempt to launch game out of the same install that is already running - is this what you mean by "out of the same instance".</p><p>I would not want to do that if it is even possible.</p></blockquote><p>launches out of the same install, have had 4 copies running on a OC'd I7. The forum for the launchpad shows that they might allow multiple launch locations but it does not seem high on the priority list. Is there a specific reason why you are against launching multiple copies out of the same install? Have benchmarked both methods, the perfromance hit is minor on a box that has enough capabilities to run eq2.</p></blockquote><p>Have you benchmarked the difference when they are on different hard drives?  I have not personally benchmarked yet I have run them out of the same install, had two installs off of one drive (with these two I could tell no difference), and finally ran two installs off of two different drives.  With this last my performance for me spiked up tremendously.  My system is powerful - the only bottleneck I was getting with your scenario seemed to be read/writes to the HDD.</p>

[Theodrec]

<p><cite>Theodrec wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>TSR-DanielH wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>If you need the eq2.exe file then you can get it at the following link:</p><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://everquest2.station.sony.com/index.vm?reinstall=yes" target="_blank">http://everquest2.station.sony.com/...m?reinstall=yes</a></p><p>I believe if you just place it in the Everquest 2 folder and run the EQ2.exe then that should accomplish what you're trying to do.</p></blockquote><p>That is link to a setup.exe file which asks to remove, repair, or modify.  Repair and modify neither provide my directory with traditional eq2.exe patcher.</p></blockquote><p>Still looking for a way to get the tradition eq2.exe patcher?</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>Theodrec wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Wingrider01 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Theodrec wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Wingrider01 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>If you don;t care about running out of the same instance, what I have worked around with and it works - launch the patcher, sign in, then launch eq2 and let it log, windows out, logout of the launcher then login with the second account and launch eq2, two instances with different logons with 1 launcher.</p></blockquote><p>Hmm, this I could do and did do when I could save different install locations by log in.  I cannot do this now because it would attempt to launch game out of the same install that is already running - is this what you mean by "out of the same instance".</p><p>I would not want to do that if it is even possible.</p></blockquote><p>launches out of the same install, have had 4 copies running on a OC'd I7. The forum for the launchpad shows that they might allow multiple launch locations but it does not seem high on the priority list. Is there a specific reason why you are against launching multiple copies out of the same install? Have benchmarked both methods, the perfromance hit is minor on a box that has enough capabilities to run eq2.</p></blockquote><p>Have you benchmarked the difference when they are on different hard drives?  I have not personally benchmarked yet I have run them out of the same install, had two installs off of one drive (with these two I could tell no difference), and finally ran two installs off of two different drives.  With this last my performance for me spiked up tremendously.  My system is powerful - the only bottleneck I was getting with your scenario seemed to be read/writes to the HDD.</p></blockquote><p>Used to run it on seperate instances on the old launcher, when I rebuilt the drive arrray's after a disastorous meltdown I went to 15K Ultra320 SCSI drives with raid controller. This machine is also used for vertical software development and application validation</p>

[TSR-DanielH]

<p><cite>Theodrec wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Have you benchmarked the difference when they are on different hard drives?  I have not personally benchmarked yet I have run them out of the same install, had two installs off of one drive (with these two I could tell no difference), and finally ran two installs off of two different drives.  With this last my performance for me spiked up tremendously.  My system is powerful - the only bottleneck I was getting with your scenario seemed to be read/writes to the HDD.</p></blockquote><p>I'm actually interested in trying this.  I don't usually multi-box but I just opened up a second account using a RAF and I thought I might level up another alt or 2.  I'll try running it on seperate drives and from the same instance and see what kind of performance difference I see.</p>