Multiple Accounts

[cereniti01]

I am wondering if there is a way to play multiple accounts on the same computer or if someone could give me a way to tweak the size of the windows in windowed mode so the 2 could be placed side by side,
Thanks

[keezyrick]

I box sometimes using 1 PC with two accounts. EQ2 does not care that you have an instance of the game already running.

Some drawbacks:
1. No matter how fast your PC, you will suffer lag resulting from both games squeezing through one network card to the net.

2. No matter how good the video card (unless you have two), you will suffer from some particle effects and redraw anomolies resulting from the pipeline to the video cards dropping frames (even in raid mode).

I play using one video card that supports dual-monitors.
(speculation coming, not fact)
I expect with two video cards, you would still have some dropped frames resulting from the games inability to take advantage of dual-core processing, so the video processing that is off-loaded to the CPU (not the GPU) will suffer some from the dual-pipeline demand.

3. Single controls for both game windows will test your ability to do what you want in one window and get back to the other and perform actions. I often do things on the keyboard that go to the wrong window, because I forgot to set focus on the right window.

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If you plan to use one monitor, good luck. I haven't tried that and my guess is you could not pull off anything acceptable in terms of size of each window and still maintain playability.

Boxing is best left to what it sounds like, multiple boxes running the game. But you make due with what you have.

Have fun.

[pooka]

I dual box using two PCs with two monitors. It is possible to run two instances on one machine. Unless your machine is REALLY tweaked it will be borderline unplayable even with all graphic setting at minimum if you try to run them side by side. If your machine is pretty tweaked, your best bet would be to alt-tab between the two instances so only one has to be rendered at a time.

If anyone is interested in swapping dual-boxing tips and tricks, let me know.

[Drumstix42]

Well, for starters, your network card really shouldn't hurt ya that much. The big thing is the video card for one, and the CPU for two. EQ2 is much more CPU-heavy. If you have a dual-core you can at least use windows Set Affinity to put each instance on a different core (if possible). Otherwise, just have some good RAM.

You can use ALT+TAB to swap between windows, or just resize each window in windowed mode.
I run two accounts occasionally on one machine, but not for fun. Boxing in EQ2 takes all the fun out for me. EQ1 it was normal to be playing two accounts, lol.