Multiboxing.
I have 2 accounts, I boost myself in WoW all the time, classic and live. What I am trying to do is play 2 copies of d3 at the same time for obvious reasons, but I cannot get 2 instances of the game to run at once. How do you get around this? The button is greyed out.
Now before you vomit your opinion on multiboxing, don’t. What I am trying to do is entirely within ToS.
Multi boxing IS NOT AGAINST TERMS OF SERVICE.
Nobody is stopping you from buying 2 accounts. Please keep this on track.
Expected this kind of commentary.
Just asking a question. If you don’t have a answer just refrain from commenting. Not really the hardest concept to grasp. Not here asking for opinions. Just technical info.
Basically pause the video where you need to to see the properties of the shortcuts. If you don’t have a lot of system memory use a 32-bit version, otherwise use a 64-bit version. Then when you open these you just log in with the account you want to use.
I have tried this, you get the same issue. I can open 2 diff accounts, but when you log into one copy of the game, the other entirely different open client, the button greys out.
I have tried multiple desktops, same issue, and different user accounts on the same pc, you get a different error message saying another user is already logged in.
I open the first one from Battle.net, then run the second from the command line with the -window -launch options. Have one logged in first.
Good luck managing it. I tried it for 43 seconds before realising it was way faster just to blast a solo account. Too much downtime in town and the gear wasn’t worth it.
I’ll have to look at this and see if something’s changed. Typically when I use it I open battlenet and log into my main account first. Then I minimize that or alt tab to the desktop then run my shortcut for the game and log into that and I’m up on both windows. The biggest thing is modifying the shortcut.
As I showed above in my video if you pause, I have the properties of the shortcuts displayed you just need to make the same changes to the end of your path so that matches mine. Where the game is located is different potentially but the part you add at the end is all you need to change as described above by someone else.
As far as I know this doesn’t cause an issue with logins. Or at least none that I have encountered. Granted I have not tried this on Windows 11 yet, but I can’t see why that would cause this issue.
Use a VM. How you access this is entirely up to you - there are numerous options such as Hyper-V, VMWare, VirtualBox, etc., etc., etc. or even Azure if you want to pay for it… and a bit. This will keep all instances of Diablo completely separate as they are all technically launched from a different “PC.”
Note, use of VMs is system taxing so if you do not have a very good system, this is basically not going to happen.
Oh, and do not use multi-mouse control options like Mouse without Borders as this may cause a violation of the ToS.
You only need the system to have plenty of RAM. You could get away with running two instances on say 8GB, but I highly recommend a minimum of 16GB or more. My systems run 32GB, and I can carry up to 4 instances if I want. (I have done this in the past)
I normally will only run two when I want to use one to power level another. In fact, I need to do this tonight, so will test and verify this still works in case Blizzard changed something. Been working today (on a Sunday even).
Game on.
Edit:
Just fired up my game, and still able to run multiple instances no problem, without VMs, or anything else.
I’m logged in on both my accounts and it works fine, as it always has. I just alt-tab between them to control each game.
