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Installing Two Copies: Can It Be Done?
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Post by
tandroy
Let me preface this post by saying the following: Yes, I know I can run two instances of WoW at the same time. That is not what I want to do.
I will explain.
I want to install WoW in two different and separate locations on my machine. Why? Because I want to dual-box it, but I want to be able to set the video and audio settings way the hell down on the second copy without affecting the settings on my main copy. I don't want to have to keep changing my video settings every time I open WoW and frankly, I'd rather not strain my machine too much by trying to run both instances of WoW at my normal level of detail.
I've tried running the installer, it gives me a Play button instead of Install.
I would have posted this on the official forums, but they're so hosed these days that I get "Server Error" when I try to log into them.
So, can this be done? If so, how?
Post by
Zhivago
Never tried it myself, but I think just copying the whole Wow folder to a new directory path should work. Then set up a shortcut to the new Wow path and try it out. Worse case scenario here is this doesn't work and you wasted all of ten minutes or so doing the copy.
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138535
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Post by
tandroy
Thanks, guys. Worked great.
Post by
Incendium
Just make sure you know that you will need to re-copy the folder each time a patch is released, because the patch installer will only update the officially installed copy (as that is the only install it knows of and doesn't know about the copy).
Post by
Wanderingfox
Just make sure you know that you will need to re-copy the folder each time a patch is released, because the patch installer will only update the officially installed copy (as that is the only install it knows of and doesn't know about the copy).
Not true. The second he runs WoW.exe on the second install, it will realize that that copy is out of date and you'll be forced to download the patch downloader, which will in turn launch, download the patch, and restart wow (like what happened before the launcher was introduced).
Post by
Incendium
Just make sure you know that you will need to re-copy the folder each time a patch is released, because the patch installer will only update the officially installed copy (as that is the only install it knows of and doesn't know about the copy).
Not true. The second he runs WoW.exe on the second install, it will realize that that copy is out of date and you'll be forced to download the patch downloader, which will in turn launch, download the patch, and restart wow (like what happened before the launcher was introduced).
Odd. Every time I've tried it, it told me that WoW was already up to date.
Post by
Wanderingfox
/shrug I've never had any trouble with it. Even in the case of it not patching, you can just move the actual patch file into that directory and re-run it, and if that doesn't work you can always fall back to just recopying it. I've never had to though.
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305323
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Post by
Kibbles
Let me preface this post by saying the following: Yes, I know I can run two instances of WoW at the same time. That is not what I want to do.
I will explain.
I want to install WoW in two different and separate locations on my machine. Why? Because I want to dual-box it, but I want to be able to set the video and audio settings way the hell down on the second copy without affecting the settings on my main copy. I don't want to have to keep changing my video settings every time I open WoW and frankly, I'd rather not strain my machine too much by trying to run both instances of WoW at my normal level of detail.
I've tried running the installer, it gives me a Play button instead of Install.
I would have posted this on the official forums, but they're so hosed these days that I get "Server Error" when I try to log into them.
So, can this be done? If so, how?
There's no point. You need two accounts
And yea i get SE too
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Post by
PessimiStick
Odd. Every time I've tried it, it told me that WoW was already up to date.On Vista/W7 you have to run WoW as admin for it to update. If you just run it with user privileges, it won't update the registry and the patcher will try to patch your already up-to-date copy.
Post by
Murrdurr
I have 2boxed before and just loaded up the same wow.exe that was on my desktop twice, never had a problem that way. Only reason why I have 2 installed is cause one is regular wow and the other is for a pre-bc private server I mess with on tuesdays and such, first I had to rename my original wow folder, install the early copy of wow, changed the name of that folder and changed my original wows folder name to normal
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