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Age · Jan 12, 2009, 11:50 PM // 23:50

I would re do or reread from page 1 on how to install it and get it working as wel use the original dl.

Snograt · Jan 13, 2009, 12:37 AM // 00:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by connor nightwind

I was able to download the file fine, however I am still unable to run both clients at the same time. I even rebuilt the entire setup, one client only. Launch one then tried to launch the other using gwx2, failed to launch.

That will never work. GWx2 runs both clients. If an instance of GW is already running when you launch GWx2, it will always fail.

darkk wound · Jan 13, 2009, 01:13 AM // 01:13

hey guys hopefully you all can help me, when i try to download the link i get an error message saying "your current security settings do not allow this file to be downloaded" and i am not sure what i have to do.

any help is appreciated
thanks

Snograt · Jan 13, 2009, 08:58 PM // 20:58

I'd guess you have your security options set to "high" in IE.

Dusk Banewalker · Jan 22, 2009, 04:32 AM // 04:32

I'm not sure if this has been brought up on these forums before (quick search revealed no relevant results) or if this is even the right thread to mention this, but I've come accross an interesting app called Matty's Guild Wars Multi-Loader that seems to be superior to gwx2 in providing a number of new features and handling the multi gw loading process in a much more streamlined and customizable manner. It works essentially the same as gwx2 in that it involves copying the game data folder and the app scrambling the registry etc. with notable differences being support for more than two instances of Guild Wars at once and support for texmod.

The app looks promising, however I am undecided as to whether it is safe to run (hopefully mere paranoia; the author recently implemented an auto-update feature which would explain the program's behaviour) as the program connects to the internet upon running according to commodo. The app has been successfully used by a number of users spanning presearing.com and the author's alliance [VIA], with no negative response to be found.

If anyone is interested I found the app on presearing.com forums. I'm curious as to whether anyone else has dealt with this loader and perhaps some insight as to whether it is safe to use. I would address the author directly but he seems to be off in China taking a Korean language course.

Presearing Forums Thread

Author's Main Site

Snograt · Jan 22, 2009, 07:05 AM // 07:05

Verrrry interesting...

If this checks out as clean (locally, Spybot S&D and NOD32 say it's ok) - we may well have our new gwx2 which, although a great program, hasn't been updated in ages.

Wonder if there's a security expert who can check this out...

(Just gave it a quick test myself (sod security

) - awesome!)

Dusk Banewalker · Jan 23, 2009, 10:39 PM // 22:39

So have you come to any conclusions with regards to the multi-loader? I plan on using it with a pool of 4 valuable accounts, so security concerns are paramount.

Snograt · Jan 24, 2009, 09:02 AM // 09:02

Sorry for the delay - I've passed it on to our resident security expert. Hopefully he'll post his findings soon.

Milgasia · Jan 25, 2009, 01:06 AM // 01:06

ok, i've done everything stated above, and everything that you people have said on how to fix it. when i run the program i get no error, but only one copy of Guild Wars opens. Can anyone help me?

Also there is another one my guildmate found, and although there has been no problem yet, i'm still unsure =\. It can be found at http://guildwars.incgamers.com/showthread.php?t=478751

I'd like to hear if any of you know anything about it, or if you can help me with GWx2. thanks =)

Snograt · Jan 26, 2009, 09:09 AM // 09:09

That sounds like a very complicated way of doing things (initially) and it uses a VM, so the resources will be huge (I'd imagine).

Secondly - and I hate asking this question - do you own two separate Guild Wars accounts?

If I had a penny for every time that's been the reason*....

*I'd have nearly a dime.

Elder III · Jan 27, 2009, 03:05 AM // 03:05

I just tried out Matty's Guild Wars Multi-Loader and it works great. Used it for about 1.5 hrs without a hitch... very seamless and my lass then bleeding edge computer handled 2 instances of GW with hardly a performance hit at all. Seems to be very good.... did I mention it is SIMPLE to use too??? :d

Snograt · Jan 27, 2009, 06:48 AM // 06:48

Yes, it is great - it's just a shame that Matty has disappeared to China for a month, I'd like to chat with him about it.

Rushin Roulette · Jan 28, 2009, 12:28 PM // 12:28

Ive just noticed a problem with Mattys multiloader. I usually run Xfire with the ingame chat option turned on.

Since I used Mattys loader (which works really nicely with multiple GW accounts btw) Xfire stopped detecting Guildwars, so I went into the Xfire options to find out why.

My Xfire had somehow been told to detect if Guildwars was running by trying to look at this path "c:\mattywasnthere". This looks a bit fishy to me and im sure that I did not change the Guild Wars detetion option myself.

The GWML.exe programm checked out clean through Bitdefender and Spybot on my end. But Id like to know if anyone else has found any strange changes on their system and if this is intened and needed for the programm to work.

ne33us · Jan 28, 2009, 02:37 PM // 14:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rushin Roulette

Ive just noticed a problem with Mattys multiloader. I usually run Xfire with the ingame chat option turned on.

Since I used Mattys loader (which works really nicely with multiple GW accounts btw) Xfire stopped detecting Guildwars, so I went into the Xfire options to find out why.

My Xfire had somehow been told to detect if Guildwars was running by trying to look at this path "c:\mattywasnthere". This looks a bit fishy to me and im sure that I did not change the Guild Wars detetion option myself.

The GWML.exe programm checked out clean through Bitdefender and Spybot on my end. But Id like to know if anyone else has found any strange changes on their system and if this is intened and needed for the programm to work.

"My Xfire had somehow been told to ..." by whom ?
Remove GuildWars from Xfire's game list and try games autodetect again.
ALSO, run games autodetect FOR EACH of your second, third, fourth GuildWars account, so that Xfire reads "those games" too.
If there is no game installed in "c:\mattywasnthere", Xfire shouldn't look there.
Also check your Xfire_games.ini and dev_games.ini for errors.

The answer is based on the assumption that "Mattys multiloader" also needs separated folder installations of GuildWars and on informations from http://wiki.xfire.com/wiki/index.php...sing_games_tab

Rushin Roulette · Jan 28, 2009, 07:35 PM // 19:35

I fixed the problem with xfire already. I only need it to detect my main account while it is being used. If I log onto the mule accoutns it will just be to trade items from my main account to the mules.

The problem is not that I couldnt figure out how to fix Xfire, its the path that was changed. I dont have a folder named "c:\mattywasnthere" on my computer. I did not create it and neither did the GWML.exe programm. But I do see similarities between the name of the creator of this programm "Matty" and the path which was changed in my Xfire programm.

Im just wondering if this is the extent of wierd changes people noticed. If that is all, then no worries. If its intended, because Xfire somehow messes up the GWML.exe programm, then all the better that this is fixed by the programm on running.

icewolf73 · Jan 31, 2009, 03:01 AM // 03:01

I have been using GWx2 and it worked well for a week or so. Then yesterday it just stopped loading both accounts. Not sure what the problem i... I am gonna give Matty's a try.

Matty.Asia · Jan 31, 2009, 01:04 PM // 13:04

Hi,
I'm Matty, I've never used X-Fire so I've never encountered this issue.
However I can tell you what this is. One issue that was encountered whilst writing the program is that if an entry in the registry points to a real copy of Guild Wars, then any new copy of Guild Wars will try to open that instead.
Hence not being able to open multiple copies.
I wrote it to do this on purpose as it doesn't affect the game itself in any negative way. And by directing it to a non existant folder GW looks for the files in a path relative to its own which means the instances wont all be trying to use the same .dat file.

I'd like to know if this affects X-Fire greatly, or if there is any way around it if so?

Any other suggestions and comments are welcome.

Snograt · Jan 31, 2009, 03:05 PM // 15:05

Hi Matty - and thanks for dropping in!

The only issue with XFire is that it doesn't detect that Guild Wars is running when it is launched while your program is running. It's not a serious problem at all - except to those people who are "hours played" fetishists. Like me

In fact, that problem hasn't happened to me at all - maybe it only affects XFire's ingame capabilities on the non-primary instances of gw.exe.

OwN3dPwN3d · Feb 06, 2009, 12:12 PM // 12:12

Good post! Thumbs up!

Jasmine_Bloodreaper · Feb 06, 2009, 10:36 PM // 22:36

It's not working for me. I've followed all of your steps properly and carefully but it's not working. Every time I start up GWx2, there are two "Connecting to Arenanet" windows, but when it's connected, one window closes, and it only runs one game client. Suggestions?