The reason I want to buy it on Steam again is that E
is 75% off right now on Steam, but isn't in FD Store.
is 75% off right now on Steam, but isn't in FD Store.
I bought the game on Steam. IF I buy the game on Steam AGAIN, can I launch two clients/accounts at the same time on PC?
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You can run multiple Frontier accounts through the Steam install though. After the launcher starts you can log out in there and into another account.
Also I don’t think you can buy it on the same steam account twice, you have to make a junk account and gift it, or do something with customer support, not sure what.
Never tried it myself, but if you have it installed to a separate location I think you can multi box. Not sure if you need to download the frontier installer or can just copy the steam one somewhere else.
I remember thinking it would be easy when I read ages ago what to do.
Never tried it myself, but if you have it installed to a separate location I think you can multi box. Not sure if you need to download the frontier installer or can just copy the steam one somewhere else.
I remember thinking it would be easy when I read ages ago what to do.
Simply coping ED Steam folder doesn't work. It will say "only one copy of the Elite Dangerous Launcher can run at a time". I'll try different ways.
Simply coping ED Steam folder doesn't work. It will say "only one copy of the Elite Dangerous Launcher can run at a time". I'll try different ways.
I think you'll need two copies of the launcher.
why bother so much? Surely there are easier cheats?
I bought ED on Steam originally, but soon found that I could run it outside Steam (handy when my kids were playing another Steam game at the time). I've since bought two more accounts directly from Frontier in a sale.
I can run all three on the same PC and tab between them at will. You just need three copies of the entire folder containing the launcher (three copies of just the launcher itself will be OK if you don't want to run all three accounts simultaneously). You can only have one copy of the launcher running at a time, but you can close the launcher once the game is running, and fire up another launcher.
So there shouldn't be a problem running multipe copies. Probably the tricky part will be buying multiple copies from Steam (rather than Frontier) in the first place. You could just wait for the next Frontier sale. When buying from there, you just need a different email address for each account.
I can run all three on the same PC and tab between them at will. You just need three copies of the entire folder containing the launcher (three copies of just the launcher itself will be OK if you don't want to run all three accounts simultaneously). You can only have one copy of the launcher running at a time, but you can close the launcher once the game is running, and fire up another launcher.
So there shouldn't be a problem running multipe copies. Probably the tricky part will be buying multiple copies from Steam (rather than Frontier) in the first place. You could just wait for the next Frontier sale. When buying from there, you just need a different email address for each account.
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You could run it in VirtuaBox maybe. RAM will suffer.
The important bit is you do need two different email accounts. There are people managing to run the game twice at the same time on the same computer but, they still need two accounts.
So what is you want to achieve? Having to copies of Elite?
You can only own a single copy of any game per steam account, in some cases, extra copies, can be given away to another steam account. So if you want to buy it again on steam, you will need a second steam account for that copy. You should be able to buy the second copy as a gift on your main account.
There are some rules regarding steam accounts, one of which are you are ONLY permitted to run a SINGLE game at the same time on the account, so having two computers, using same Steam account on both, you are only allowed to run a single game, so you can't play Elite on computer 1 and you kid/friend etc cannot play another steam game on computer 2... This limitation extends to the family sharing option Steam has, so I can share my Steam library with you, and when I am not playing a game, you can play any of the games in my library, and if I decides to play a game, your game session will be evicted after a notification, to allow you to save etc.
Elite is a bit special, since to play Elite, you need to have Frontier account, this is actually the account that holds the license for Elite, as you are required to login with that account to be able to play Elite.
So for Elite, and buying a second copy on steam is not that much trouble, as you still need a second steam account (secondary e-mail), but you also need a linked Frontier account, so use same e-mail here, and from here on, you play either CMDR from the same launcher, by simply changing what Frotnier account that is logged on in the launcher. So you do not need to switch Steam accounts etc.
If you want to run multiple copies of Elite at the same time on a single PC, then it gets a bit more complicated, but I think you should be able to download the launcher from Frontier, so you should have the option to either use Steam version or the Frontier version, there should be no difference, except that Steam will keep it copy updated so you do not have to pre-emptively launch the launcher to update the game.
You can only own a single copy of any game per steam account, in some cases, extra copies, can be given away to another steam account. So if you want to buy it again on steam, you will need a second steam account for that copy. You should be able to buy the second copy as a gift on your main account.
There are some rules regarding steam accounts, one of which are you are ONLY permitted to run a SINGLE game at the same time on the account, so having two computers, using same Steam account on both, you are only allowed to run a single game, so you can't play Elite on computer 1 and you kid/friend etc cannot play another steam game on computer 2... This limitation extends to the family sharing option Steam has, so I can share my Steam library with you, and when I am not playing a game, you can play any of the games in my library, and if I decides to play a game, your game session will be evicted after a notification, to allow you to save etc.
Elite is a bit special, since to play Elite, you need to have Frontier account, this is actually the account that holds the license for Elite, as you are required to login with that account to be able to play Elite.
So for Elite, and buying a second copy on steam is not that much trouble, as you still need a second steam account (secondary e-mail), but you also need a linked Frontier account, so use same e-mail here, and from here on, you play either CMDR from the same launcher, by simply changing what Frotnier account that is logged on in the launcher. So you do not need to switch Steam accounts etc.
If you want to run multiple copies of Elite at the same time on a single PC, then it gets a bit more complicated, but I think you should be able to download the launcher from Frontier, so you should have the option to either use Steam version or the Frontier version, there should be no difference, except that Steam will keep it copy updated so you do not have to pre-emptively launch the launcher to update the game.
Have you tried to close the laucher when the game is running? and then launch it again?
You may find this of interest Time Stamp 2:35 is about where the interesting bit is
ObisidianAnt - Elite Dangerous - Multicrew on a Single PC and the Canonn Research Mega Ship
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUI6T724mqw
ObisidianAnt - Elite Dangerous - Multicrew on a Single PC and the Canonn Research Mega Ship
Sounds like the job of a VM.
Yeah, might work. I don't have much experience with modern gaming on VMs though, other than running servers or something.
Me neither, on another note, what if you execute two launcher files at once?
Ehm, can you explain it more in depth ?
I cannot imagine how this can work. Let's say I have two computers, two games, two accounts and even two IP addresses.
From the point of game, I am two different peoples. How it was possible to have the same ship on two different stations (or two different ships on two different stations) and trade between them ?