SpecMike

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City of Heroes Mac Edition Guide (version 5 - Issue 20)

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Thanks for the quick reply.

I just tried this again however, despite them being separated in different folders as you said, both launchers were only able to open one copy of the game. I think this is the same problem posted by Guinevere:

""I tried the above method and I also tried copying both the launcher and the game into another directory and using the properties to point to the directory with NCLauncher 2 as covered in another thread with no luck, it seems the launcher is always called and the properties file for it is global so 2 launchers does not help.""

How exactly do you change the properties of one launcher to point at the second copy of CoH after it having just launched the first copy? (As suggested by Guinevere):

""I finally got round it by having a duplicate CoH app in another dir, started the first via the launcher, changed the launchers properties to point at the 2nd copy of CoH, then just hit Play Now again. This seems to work fine. But is obviously a bit of a faff.""

Thanks again
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City of Heroes Mac Edition Guide (version 5 - Issue 20)

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Originally Posted by Guinevere

I just tried to run multiple instances using this method, but double clicking on the new CoH icon for the duplicated app just kicks off the launcher which then brings the 1st instance back to the foreground, no 2nd instance.

Is there something else I need to do to stop the 2nd version using the launcher?

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I tried the above method and I also tried copying both the launcher and the game into another directory and using the properties to point to the directory with NCLauncher 2 as covered in another thread with no luck, it seems the launcher is always called and the properties file for it is global so 2 launchers does not help.

I finally got round it by having a duplicate CoH app in another dir, started the first via the launcher, changed the launchers properties to point at the 2nd copy of CoH, then just hit Play Now again. This seems to work fine. But is obviously a bit of a faff.

I've been trying to figure out how to run multiple instances for ages now, would you be able to clarify how it is done please? Or how can you point the launcher at a specific copy of coh?

Any help would be much appreciated,

Thanks