Guild Wars 2

This is for playing 2 acconts(or instance of the game at the same time).Think Aranet shud make a post on accont creation side to showe howe this is don or make an ap for it if they like monny that is…….Any help apriciated

Unless you have some sort of software that will allow you to run two copies of the game at the same time on one computer, it is not possible to do so.

If you do use said software, remember you are not allowed to control both copies at the same time. Each game’s actions must be independently controlled.

You can, however, launch each copy on a separate computer and play each independently. Or, you can play one, then the other, on the same computer.

Oh, and to answer your thread title, you don’t need to install the game again, if you have already installed it. Just log in using your new Account Name (email address associated with the new game account) and new password.

Good luck.

Do you want to have 2 accounts run at the same time, or just 2 accounts where
your name password is already filled in ?

For the first you need 2 GW2 installations and a second admin account.
-Download Process Explorer, https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
- Start GW2 normal for the first account.
- start Process Explorer and kill the mutex “AN-Mutex-Window-Guild Wars 2”

- start your second GW2 copy like this :

c:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /savecred /user:admin “g:\gw2\Gw2.exe -autologin -maploadinfo”

you need to type in the password the first time.

The preferred way to do this seems to be MultiWars2, which is simply a launcher to actually get the two copies going. Do a search on Google or YouTube for TheMechanicalGamer’s setup guide (which also has links to the software).

Multiwars however makes the game, especially all loading times, very slow.

Ty for all your answers.So playing with 2 acconts in windowed modus on the same PC is not possibol with this game when you have the 2 installations installed to different folders,thats wired ,i can run 6 acconts on the same time with a nother game that way.i have looked at the web for som videos on the subjekt,som show som text editors but rely to bad resulusion to show any thing good,(to smal text ect).And dont think i will trust a 3d party softwar.what relly needed is for aranet to implement an ap to install second accont with the rigth description on howe to do it,Seems to me that is a werry bad bissnis decission been made on theyr part sins it not all redy don..And howe i run 6 acconts in windowed mode is simpel al that is neded is that all 6 acconts are set up the same displaye and commands,and it dos not brake the eula sins you can only giwe command to 1 instance of the game you have as the open active.

Blu Hawok.5648:

what relly needed is for aranet to implement an ap to install second accont with the rigth description on howe to do it

Don’t count on ArenaNet doing anything. GW1 was the same way.

Blu Hawok.5648:

And dont think i will trust a 3d party softwar.

Process Explorer is a program supported by Microsoft.

MultiWars2 is open source and was clean the last time I checked.

Blu Hawok.5648:

And howe i run 6 acconts in windowed mode is simpel al that is neded is that all 6 acconts are set up the same displaye and commands,and it dos not brake the eula sins you can only giwe command to 1 instance of the game you have as the open active.

If they are set up to run with the same commands then you are breaking the EULA. It is simple.

There is absolutely no reason that you should need to run that many GW2 accounts on one computer unless you’re doing so for suspicious purposes…

FlamingFoxx-1305//Sorry dont run withe same commands but ingame settings so swaping windowed game instance dont crasch,so no commands to operate all acconts at the same time.

Blu Hawok.5648:

Ty for all your answers.So playing with 2 acconts in windowed modus on the same PC is not possibol with this game when you have the 2 installations installed to different folders,thats wired

I run 2 different accounts in windowed mode in the way i explained above.

The only complicated part is to kill the “AN-Mutex-Window-Guild Wars 2”
each time, after you created the second windows user and the batch file.

Beldin.5498:

Multiwars however makes the game, especially all loading times, very slow.

Yeah, been trying Multiwars, and I definitely can’t disagree. Even the copy of GW2 on my SSD takes ages to load a new zone. And so far it’s never let me close the game down cleanly, either. But on the plus side, it needs almost no Windows knowledge, and once it’s configured, getting the game up is pretty trivial. Horses for courses, maybe.

But to be fair I haven’t tried the method you suggest yet, so I can’t really compare until I have.

Out of interest – in that sequence you give, where does the second admin account come in (I can’t really claim to be deeply Windows-literate, I haven’t the foggiest what your command line is fully doing, and you don’t explicitly mention it)? Do i substitute “admin” with the name of the second account?

Beldin.5498:

Blu Hawok.5648:

Ty for all your answers.So playing with 2 acconts in windowed modus on the same PC is not possibol with this game when you have the 2 installations installed to different folders,thats wired

I run 2 different accounts in windowed mode in the way i explained above.

And I’ve just run Maw with two accounts from two installs on the same PC (one copy on an SSD, one on an HDD), both in windowed mode, using Multiwars. But as Beldin said – loading times are long and the game is slower (and my frame rate during Maw itself was appalling, but my graphic card’s hardly top-end, so that’s to be expected, I guess).

Fredd.9784:

Out of interest – in that sequence you give, where does the second admin account come in

Beldin.5498:

c:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /savecred /user:admin “g:\gw2\Gw2.exe -autologin -maploadinfo”

“runas” is used to start a process using the specified account.

/savecred is used to remember the login credentials (not available on Home versions).
/user:admin means to use the “admin” account.

The last part is the process to run, in this case “g:\gw2\Gw2.exe” with the parameters “-autologin -maploadinfo”

Bonus:

To create that “admin” account (or whatever you want to name it), instead of using the control panel:

net user "admin" "mypassword" /add

net localgroup Administrators "admin" /add

Healix.5819:

Fredd.9784:

Out of interest – in that sequence you give, where does the second admin account come in

Beldin.5498:

c:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /savecred /user:admin “g:\gw2\Gw2.exe -autologin -maploadinfo”

“runas” is used to start a process using the specified account.

/savecred is used to remember the login credentials (not available on Home versions).
/user:admin means to use the “admin” account.

The last part is the process to run, in this case “g:\gw2\Gw2.exe” with the parameters “-autologin -maploadinfo”

Bonus:

To create that “admin” account (or whatever you want to name it), instead of using the control panel:

net user "admin" "mypassword" /add

net localgroup Administrators "admin" /add

Yes, that’s what I thought. Except that, as a batch file, the command window just comes and goes with no launch; and from a command line window (so that I can see the output), all I get is a syntax list (presumably telling me I’ve done something wrong). I’ve trimmed my GW2 directory name back to something the command line is happy with. I’m on Win 7 Home Premium (but taking out /savecred changes nothing, and the syntax list simply says it will be ignored anyway). In both cases I’m running as adminstrator. I guess I’ll just have to live with MultiWars2 for now.

Edit: Hah. Got it. I dropped a PAUSE into the .bat file, and spotted the problem: I don’t know where the problem comes, but, by the time I’d cut-and-pasted the command from above, the double quotes around the GW2 command in my .bat file weren’t standard code-page quotes – looked identical, but different code-points. I couldn’t see that on a raw command line because the command wasn’t being echoed, of course. I deleted and retyped them, and suddenly the game launches.

Fredd.9784:

all I get is a syntax list

If you copy/pasted what was posted here, you’ll need to change the quotes due to how the forum converts them.

It should be like this:

runas /savecred /user:admin "g:\gw2\Gw2.exe"

Instead of this:

runas /savecred /user:admin “g:\gw2\Gw2.exe”

If your username has a space or special characters in it, you’ll need to add quotes:

runas /savecred /user:"My Account" "g:\gw2\Gw2.exe"

Healix.5819:

Fredd.9784:

all I get is a syntax list

If you copy/pasted what was posted here, you’ll need to change the quotes due to how the forum converts them.

Yes, I discovered that. It’s always the little stuff. 8-)

It’s working fine, thanks. As Beldin said, killing the process is a little fiddly – but the result is undoubtedly better-performing. If I get time this afternoon, I’ll do a couple of quick comparisons of zone load times with MultiWars2, and post the results here as a “for instance”.

Edit:

OK – I did a few quick measurements, and this is what I came up with. Very non-rigorous and unscientific, but.

My rig is hardly cutting-edge by today’s standards, but it runs a single copy pretty well at fairly high settings:
Intel i5-2400@3.10GHz
8GB RAM
Win 7 Home Premium
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti

I have a copy of GW2 installed on an SSD drive alongside my copy of Windows, and a second on an HDD. I launched each copy separately, went to the character screen, selected a character I knew to be in Lion’s Arch, and manually timed the time taken for the display to come up. I took 3 such reading of each, and averaged them. I also took similar readings for single copies of the game launched via MultiWars2, and timings when two copies were running (launched with and without MultiWars2). In the case of the pair launched by deleting the handle, the HDD copy was launched second.

Results in seconds (SDD/HDD in each case):
Single copy, stand alone: 19.3/19.6
Two copies, handle deleted: 28.0/12.9
Single copy, MultiWars2: 44.7/44.3
Two copies, MultiWars2: 68.5/74.6

It’s pretty clear from that, that running under MW2 is adding significantly to load times at least; what’s not visible from that is the huge times it also took to return to the character screen under MW2 (when it did at all; a couple of times things locked up and I had to restart, so I guess there could be an underlying problem that’s not entierly MW2’s fault, but – even so). Whereas the native copies just dropped straight back with little discernible delay.

It’s also clear that running two copies by simply killing the process loaded far faster. I also can’t detect any noticable lag, whereas I’ve felt it under MW2 from time to time.

It’s not obvious, either, that I’m getting much benefit from using the SSD.

But that second figure in the “killed handle” line – the HDD load of a second copy under another userid being the fastest of all – seemed so counter-intuitive that I went back and repeated the tests – with very similar results (20.4/14.0). Maybe someone with more knowledge than me might have an idea what’s going on; personally, I’m out of my depth.

But basically, I’m a convert. Deleting the handle is messier, but the result feels clearly better (plus opening a second session that way is a decision I can make on the fly). It’s simpler to launch two copies via MultiWars2 (and probably more so if you want even more parallel clients, or only want to use the one installed copy), but if I want to do anything serious on two accounts at the same time, I’ll run them native.

(“Closing” the handle. OK, I said I wasn’t a Windows expert.)

Btw.: Somebody on Reddit found out how to automatically kill the mutex here :
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/32fo6g/multiple_clients_on_one_machine/cqd4ymz?context=3

Beldin.5498:

Btw.: Somebody on Reddit found out how to automatically kill the mutex here :
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/32fo6g/multiple_clients_on_one_machine/cqd4ymz?context=3

Nice! Yes, that works fine for me (and I also learned useful basic stuff fiddling with it to make it work the way I’d like, which is always a bonus). I set up a scheduled task to let me kick it off without the annoying UAC prompt, and I’m now one happy bunny – my second client is now just another icon on my desktop. Many thanks to all for the help.

Yeah. i have also made 3 .bat files for me. One that kills the mutex, and then 2 that
start the different clients and after that simply call the kill_mutex.bat.

UAC was something i disabled already yers ago, so i only had to type in the password
for the second account the very first time, and then never again.