How to run multiple windows diablos same time

How to run multiple copies of Diablo on one computer. Step Four : When Sandboxie 3. Step Five : When your done with steps 1,2,3,4 its time to create Desktop shortcuts to each of your Diablo 1, Diablo 2, Diablo 3 folders. Right Click your Diablo 1 shortcut and go to Properties and add "-w" at the end.

Repeat this for each shortcuts from all your Diablo folders. Related Goods. Works perfectly fine on my PC though. I click OK and log in to 2nd account, but then it says Games already playing. Actually, this is only one method. This also happened to me for a couple days then stopped, but I was trying to run 3 windows. With 2 it has been solid. It may help to close the handle on the second instance.

This seems to help keep both windows alive longer. Totally anecdotal though. Right click launcher. You wont be able to use both shortcuts without one last thing though…!!! Update, new method at bottom!!! LINK: tinyurl. NOTE: You will have to close this handle every time you want to run multiple d2r instances.

Thx for the post. Couple more user-friendly notes Now launch the process explorer application as administrator Single click D2R. Might be a little less pretty, but it functions much much better IMHO, blizzard is idiots for not allowing us a simpler way to multi launch, for the few of us that will give them extra money for a few copies. Also if you do this can you get banned? Lastly if I'm allowed to ask on this forum could somebody tell me how to do this Orphan Diabloii.

My belief is that if you have 2 legal copies of the game, then you should be able to have two installations on your computer. I do not believe you'll get banned for this, because from Blizzard's perspective, all you'll be doing is logging onto battle. BananaPancakes Diabloii. Orphan said:. I do believe though that you'll need to either rename the old installation or something so you can install the second copy on the different user profile though it sounds like you might be past this step.

As for warden, I don't believe it'll have a problem at all, because you'd have made two normal connections to battle. From what I can tell, there's a fair amount of people on this forum who use this method to self-transfer and what-not, and they don't appear to be having any problems.

Ok I got it working Then install it again in another folder with another shortcut :thumbsup: Couple more last questions What happens if I try to log onto the same character on two accounts at the same time?

Does blizz have a problem with two people playing on one account at once? VengeDestroyer Diabloii. IAmTacoSalad said:. VengeDestroyer said:. What does the phrase in bold mean? What is the "install"? Couple more last questions I log into the same account on two computers all the time. Just some several points to remember: - The same character cannot be logged into a game twice. If a character is already in a game, and you jump on that character again on your second profile, any attempt to join a game will result in a "failed to join game" scenario - If you log into the same account more than once, each subsequent login shall be AccountName 2, AccountName 3, etc.

If you log into a character on, say, IAmTacoSalad on one user profile, join a game before logging into that same account on the second user profile.