Multple EQ's on one machine

[kronfu]

I am currently able to run two instances of EQ on 1 machine. I would like to bump that to three. However, evertime i start the third entance it crashes. I have eq running on threee different hard drives, and am using an AMD 64 X2 processor.

 

[Cade]

The best advice I can give you is the following:

WinEQ2

http://www.lavishsoft.com/wineq2/

There's WinEQ2 lite which will get the job done, but if you can afford it, I suggest springing for a Lavish subscription.

 

[Kuvumot]

I am currently able to run two instances of EQ on 1 machine. I would like to bump that to three. However, evertime i start the third entance it crashes. I have eq running on threee different hard drives, and am using an AMD 64 X2 processor.

What OS are you running and how much memory do you have?

I am able to run three instances of Everquest off of the same hard drive with Vista on a P4 3.6 Ghz CPU (yes, I still have only ONE cpu). Vista sees 2.75 GBs of RAM on my machine. I also have two 8800 GTs in SLI mode for video cards.

A big help I found was using the MQ2WinXP plugin to /WinServices stop and /WinExplorer kill. Even then running three instances of Everquest still takes less than 2 Gbs of memory to accomplish and the CPU load hovers around 30% working it.

It's definitely possible, just need a bit more info on your machine first.

 

[kronfu]

Machine Info

AMD X2 6400 processor

4 gigs of ram

3 - 500gig sata hard drives

8800GTS video card.

Windows XP service pack 3

 

[Alatyami]

Here is what I did. I actually stored EQ in three different locations. #1 D:\EQ1, #2 E:\EQ2, and #3 E:\EQ3. The D partition is actually a SATA 10k rpm drive. I use that one for my main. Then I would run #2 and 3. I run a single MQ2 and it works fine though out all of them. If I ever needed a forth account up I would simply fire up #2 or #3 a second time.

By the way this was all with the following specs:

AMD 64 3000+ (2.01GHz)
3GB RAM
WinXP Pro (32bit)
GeForce 6800 (512MB) AGP!

I would also run MQ2WinXP and shutdown all of the erroneous services and explorer.exe.

 

[Spanky90]

Here is what I did. I actually stored EQ in three different locations. #1 D:\EQ1, #2 E:\EQ2, and #3 E:\EQ3. The D partition is actually a SATA 10k rpm drive. I use that one for my main. Then I would run #2 and 3. I run a single MQ2 and it works fine though out all of them. If I ever needed a forth account up I would simply fire up #2 or #3 a second time.

By the way this was all with the following specs:

AMD 64 3000+ (2.01GHz)
3GB RAM
WinXP Pro (32bit)
GeForce 6800 (512MB) AGP!

I would also run MQ2WinXP and shutdown all of the erroneous services and explorer.exe.

So when you do this with EQ do you have 3 seperate EQ folders? one on the main drive and 2 on the second partition?

 

[gnuoy]

I run 3 a lot ... all from the same directory.

Pentium D 3.4GHz, 3GB Ram, with a Nvidia 8800 1GB, on XP Pro