has anyone managed to dual box on the same machine? : Vanguard Premium Discussions

I keep getting the vanguard.exe is still running message when i open a new instance of the game, has anyone managed to fool the client so its possible to fire up a 2nd instance of the game.

I have not, but I have a lead for you to follow atleast.

You CAN run multiple windows by using he "-newwindow" command after the .exe file.

The problem I ran into however is that the exe does not connect properly if you just run it directly, and if you launch it normally via the launcher then the .exe is detected as altered and is the command is removed.

So running ore than one window was simple, but it does not connect properly when you run the .exe directly.

Thats as far as I researched into it however. I run one client on each of my systems instead since i have multiple comps that can handle vanguard anyway. Let us know if you find a solution however, as I am sure many would like to know.

I am sure there is a way to get the .exe to connect properly if you just delve into the issue.\ Maybye you should even ask sigil? The -newwindow command was given from them, so obviously they don't seem that adverse to people running multiple clients on a single system. Officialy gamesupport might actually be able to give you the answer

-Stigma

I cannot remember the commands but after decompile the .exe, you will get a list of commands which you can use after the .exe. This will allow you to specifiy manually connection address, ports, usernames and passwords.

tault_razorwing wrote:I cannot remember the commands but after decompile the .exe, you will get a list of commands which you can use after the .exe. This will allow you to specifiy manually connection address, ports, usernames and passwords.

Interresting. Im guessing the answer lies there then. The .exe probably gets these paramters from the launchpad when you run the game normally, and when you run the .exe manually these need to be manually given probably.

So someone go decomplie and get to the bottom of this hehe (or again, contacting support might very well give the answer also as I mentioned before). I don't personally stand to gain anything from this tho, so someone more motivated will have to devote some time to getting support on the line

-Stigma

I will decompile it tommorow if no one else has, but for now, i am off to bed

so anyone know how to dual log now?

Yes I would like to know if this is possible also. Thanks!

Anyone? Well give me the right direction on what to use to decompile and what to look for and I will try to get to the bottom of this myself. If I find what I'm looking for, how would I type it in like the -newindow thing.

right click on the shortcut and make the END of the shortcut look like this:
...\Vanguard.exe" -newwindow

Thanks that answers one of the questions. Now to figure out the other paramaters so you can log in and also have multiple instances of it.

right click your shortcut, click properties, look at the link it gives to the .exe, add -newwindow after it and save it

Thanks, I got that far, but when trying to open VGClient directly it looks for User name and pass. But thats what the launchpad provides when you run it through that. I was wondering how I would add the username server adress and pass. All the things that the launch pad does.

i tried to decompile the VGClient.exe using the tool called IDA Pro 5.0, i simply could not find anything useful here myself, i did use more than 5 min..... like 3 days *lol* so don't kill me gurus

I managed to find a class responsible for sending the info from the launchpad to the exe file, but was unable to find anything useful you could use as commandline arguments to the exefile.

that being said im not a ninja at this either, im sure some of the more skilled people will be able to extract some info out of the exe file.

I hope someone can do this, i wrote techical support and never heard from them regarding multiboxing, i dont think they are very fund of it heh.


-ami-

Any more progress on this.. I loved Dual playing in EQ 2, and I would like to do it here. please help

I gave up and just bought me another laptop.