Two copies of ED. One Steam, one Frontier

[Rocket_Rick]

Well, this is a bit of a pain. As the title says, I have two copies. Steam ED is linked through Frontier and the Frontier is stand-alone. Two separate emails. Do the two copies share the same data folders? Seems that anything I change in one (e.g. the hud colors) reset back to the original in the other. Also, one will launch the VR driver (the Frontier one) when I don't want it to. VERY irritating. I tried reinstalling BOTH copies to no avail. Anyone have any clues on how to get two separate copies running independent of one another? Thanx!

-Rick

 

[EDanaII]

Ok, you're post is a little confusing. You declare not having the hud colors the same as a problem, for example, yet ask is there a way to run them indpendently of each other. Which, it sounds like, they are doing.

That said, I have a couple copies of Elite. My first through Steam, the second through Frontier. Not sure how you're set up, but I used my steam account directory and, for my frontier account, simple copied and renamed the Elite executable. Once logged in to the renamed one, it retained the Frontier login information going forward. So, in my set up, they shared everything. Did you set both up in different directories? You're description of the problem suggests that's so. If so, you can always remove one installation directory and use the duplication technique to run both.

Regarding the VR launching. Go to preferences and turn it off, it should stay off until you turn it back on.

Hope this helps.

 

[Para Handy]

Well, this is a bit of a pain. As the title says, I have two copies. Steam ED is linked through Frontier and the Frontier is stand-alone. Two separate emails. Do the two copies share the same data folders? Seems that anything I change in one (e.g. the hud colors) reset back to the original in the other. Also, one will launch the VR driver (the Frontier one) when I don't want it to. VERY irritating. I tried reinstalling BOTH copies to no avail. Anyone have any clues on how to get two separate copies running independent of one another? Thanx!

-Rick

Short answer is - they share the same options tree and saved games folder - they should share the same screenshots folder but I suspect Steam might interfere with that.

If you have made changes to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics\ - (GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml is where my colour profile lives) then that should be identical to both installations. I wonder if your hud colour changes are instead being made in the EDLaunch tree of your installations?

I have no idea about VR, hopefully @EDanaII has sorted that for you.

 

[Northpin]

Well, this is a bit of a pain. As the title says, I have two copies. Steam ED is linked through Frontier and the Frontier is stand-alone. Two separate emails. Do the two copies share the same data folders? Seems that anything I change in one (e.g. the hud colors) reset back to the original in the other. Also, one will launch the VR driver (the Frontier one) when I don't want it to. VERY irritating. I tried reinstalling BOTH copies to no avail. Anyone have any clues on how to get two separate copies running independent of one another? Thanx!

-Rick

On PC i play ED on 2 accounts, a steam one and an epic one.
The games are installed on different drives/folders, but both installs share the same data/profile/setting folder, the one already mentioned above
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\

Because of this, both copies share the same gfx setting and the same controls settings.

The journals, for both installs, are in the below path.
Each journal file includes the CMDR name, so for example in EDSM you will not be able to import a journal from a different CMDR than the one signed in - in the case you decide to manual upload journals in EDSM.

"%userprofile%\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous"

 

[RocketRick]

That answers part of it. They share the same directory of information. Guess I'll have to write me a little utility program to copy each time I play the different accounts. I use a program called EDHud mod and I thought that it kept them separate. But I guess not. Be nice if Steam and Frontier would set up separate data directories. Thanks for the info

-Rick

 

[Bravo17]

I believe EDHM stores most its settings in your program folder, so if you have a separate install folder for the two installs then they should remain independent of each other. It all depends on how you have installed them eg I have 2 complete installs, one for Steam and one for Epic. It uses double the disc space, but I found that it saves a lot of headaches and file gymnastics when there is an update. Because the installs are in different directories I have to either copy EDHM files or use symlinks to get the same settings in both installs.

If you want to keep all of the data that gets stored in the user folders separate then just create a second Windows user for one of the CMDRs - this keeps log files, keybinds etc separate.