loading two games

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Glenn

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Greetings,

Is is it possible two load two games so that two different games are running at the same time. I have two Diablo game cd's and I am down to one computer so I had an idea of running two games on one computer.

Thanks Glenn
 
2 CD drives? Yuo'd need to install the game twice though, have fun trying that one...
 
that would require a lot of system resources, and would most likely lag you down.

What would the point of loading 2 games on the same system be anyways?

You can only play one at a time...
 
I think the techs might be able to help you with this so I am moving it over to the tech support forum.
 
If I had two sets of CD Keys I could try it, because I have two drives. But right now I don't ahve the HDD space to install it.
 
Wouldn't there be conflicts in the registry? Even if you make two installs on different locations, both programs need to access the same place in the registry at once... Seems odd to me, but some programs can run several instances at once. Maybe Diablo too??
 
The only information stored in the registry for diablo2 is the video/sound settings and server listing, which would be the same for both installs anyway.
Shouldn't cause a problem. It might have a problem if your video card doesn't support multiple accelerated windows at once, but most that can run the game do.
 
I was thinking more of trying to use a program such as linux to run a windows emulator and getting multiple instances of windows running. I saw Logical1 run windows in a box using linux and this was like 3 years ago - maybe it would be feasible if you had a super box but I do not know.

I am pretty sure there is not a way to do this using Windows because of the way the program grabs the video and sound card. I think you would have to have one set up for Direct 3D and one for Acceleration and probably have to do -no sound for both of them.
 
one can easilly run linux or any other OS on a windoze box
http://www.vmware.com/
have fun :)
using this proggy myself if i need to run old novel dos stuff on my win2k machine now and then
they have a trail version
the retail version is priced rather high tho .
no partitions needed or other stuff yadda yadda instal and go
 
hehe I was about to suggest vmware

although it will take a ton of RAM and cpu muscle to run two operating systems, both with games in them! In theory it should work though.
 
Maybe he could install Diablo II, copy the Diablo II directory somewhere safe, uninstall Diablo II and install Diablo II again. But as CloudBerry mentionned, the registry keys might cause a problem... Looks like VMWare would be your best bet.
 
Moving the install would not let it uninstall. Maybe just install it once but run it from two CDs at once.
 
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