Run two Clients on One Machine?

[Musashiclaw]

I used to be able to do this in Windows 7 but i tried it the other day and it didnt work.

Did Turbine change something to stop this?

[Thalone]

I multibox daily. Did you reinstall recently? The launcher has an option (down arrow) to "allow multiple game instances."

[Musashiclaw]

That was checked.

Get "Can't bind local Socket. Is another client running?"
so maybe I will do a repair and see if that fixes it.

[JBS]

Are they on different hdd's? Are you trying to start them at the same time. I find that I have to begin them within a few minutes of each other or the 2nd one fails.

Jules

[MacRighteous]

I don't have any problems dual and multi-boxing multiple game instances in DDO.
I double checked just before responding to this post and brought up 3 game instances pretty quickly from the same DDO client... the only thing is that you have to log on to different accounts for each instance, you cant dual/multi log to the same account.

There is no reason to have two clients installed to multi-box, check the multiple game instance option>start the client>log on to your first account and server> once that opens to the main game splash screen, start the client again> log on to your second account and server (Usually the same server as your other account or whats the point?)> Volia! You're a dual boxer - do that a few more times and you are a multi-boxer.

Mac

[JBS]

I don't have any problems dual and multi-boxing multiple game instances in DDO.
I double checked just before responding to this post and brought up 3 game instances pretty quickly from the same DDO client... the only thing is that you have to log on to different accounts for each instance, you cant dual/multi log to the same account.

There is no reason to have two clients installed to multi-box, check the multiple game instance option>start the client>log on to your first account and server> once that opens to the main game splash screen, start the client again> log on to your second account and server (Usually the same server as your other account or whats the point?)> Volia! You're a dual boxer - do that a few more times and you are a multi-boxer.

Mac

Chalking this up to "learn something new everyday" thanks for the tip.

Jules

[Musashiclaw]

I used to dual box my sons account to help him get levels and items but something in the past few weeks has changed and now I cant.

I just checked. We can do it on my sons computer so it must be something with mine.

I guess ill do a reinstall to see if that fixes it.

Appreciate the help.