Cheese Posted December 9, 2012 Report Posted December 9, 2012 so this might not seem like too big of a problem to other people, but has anyone found a way to open up a second client on windows 7?i upgraded from xp awhile ago, and it seems to be a mild improvementhowever, it is terribly inconvienient to try to talk to other people in pm or on a chat while trying to develop an asss zone, play a non ssc zone, or just to switch zones frequently, or use another name required for staff accessnothing critical, but still terribly annoying SSC Distension OwnerSSCU Trench Wars Developer3:JabJabJab> sometimes i feel like when im in this mood im like a productive form of CheeseDr Brain> Pretty much everything you said was wrong. Except where you called me a lazy jerk with no time. That was true.3:KrynetiX> do you ever open your web browser and type ?go google5:Ceiu> Wow. My colon decided that was a good time to evacuate itself.
🜲 Samapico Posted December 9, 2012 Report Posted December 9, 2012 If you shift-right-click a shortcut, you can use the Run as another user kind of like in XP, I'm not sure if it allows multiclienting like it did on XP though. Try that... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Half-Life_Black_Mesa_logo.svg/120px-Half-Life_Black_Mesa_logo.svg.pngDCME co-developerSSCU 17th Parallel sysop
Cheese Posted December 9, 2012 Author Report Posted December 9, 2012 unfortunately, that was one of the first thing i tried it has 2 options: run as admin or run as another user, and both just draw focus to the one already running SSC Distension OwnerSSCU Trench Wars Developer3:JabJabJab> sometimes i feel like when im in this mood im like a productive form of CheeseDr Brain> Pretty much everything you said was wrong. Except where you called me a lazy jerk with no time. That was true.3:KrynetiX> do you ever open your web browser and type ?go google5:Ceiu> Wow. My colon decided that was a good time to evacuate itself.
JoWie Posted December 9, 2012 Report Posted December 9, 2012 (edited) https://www.virtualbox.org/ heheIf i recall correctly http://www.sandboxie.com/ works too Edited December 9, 2012 by JoWie
Cheese Posted December 9, 2012 Author Report Posted December 9, 2012 using vms is cheating also very slow and unwieldy with a huge overhead SSC Distension OwnerSSCU Trench Wars Developer3:JabJabJab> sometimes i feel like when im in this mood im like a productive form of CheeseDr Brain> Pretty much everything you said was wrong. Except where you called me a lazy jerk with no time. That was true.3:KrynetiX> do you ever open your web browser and type ?go google5:Ceiu> Wow. My colon decided that was a good time to evacuate itself.
Dr Brain Posted December 9, 2012 Report Posted December 9, 2012 Game was made 17 years ago. Computers are 2^(17/1.5)=2580 times as powerful today, according to Moore's law. Serously, who cares about the overhead? Even if a VM ran 200 times slower, it'd be fast enough (and a web search suggests the average program is between 1.5x and 20x slower). Freedom is the right to be wrong.
Jareth Posted December 9, 2012 Report Posted December 9, 2012 Fast user switching works, I believe. It is very inconvenient though. Virtual machines are the best option.
Cheese Posted December 9, 2012 Author Report Posted December 9, 2012 you people -_-" SSC Distension OwnerSSCU Trench Wars Developer3:JabJabJab> sometimes i feel like when im in this mood im like a productive form of CheeseDr Brain> Pretty much everything you said was wrong. Except where you called me a lazy jerk with no time. That was true.3:KrynetiX> do you ever open your web browser and type ?go google5:Ceiu> Wow. My colon decided that was a good time to evacuate itself.
Cheese Posted December 11, 2012 Author Report Posted December 11, 2012 i can confirm that sandboxie works, but i wish there was a way using os facilities feels like such a hack SSC Distension OwnerSSCU Trench Wars Developer3:JabJabJab> sometimes i feel like when im in this mood im like a productive form of CheeseDr Brain> Pretty much everything you said was wrong. Except where you called me a lazy jerk with no time. That was true.3:KrynetiX> do you ever open your web browser and type ?go google5:Ceiu> Wow. My colon decided that was a good time to evacuate itself.
Jareth Posted December 19, 2012 Report Posted December 19, 2012 (edited) You could do it if you could find a way to delete the mutex that the client creates.I don't know any easy to way to delete it with code. It would be very easy to create a wrapper to delete it every time you launch it if you could find a way. A work-around to delete it is to use SysInternals Process Explorer. Click on Continuum.exe in top pane. Press Control + H and find the mutex in the bottom pane. You have to do this every time you start Continuum. The mutex is named "mtxsscont". edit: I did a little research to find a way to close a mutex created by another process. http://pastebin.com/2q2xGqKXTested with visual studio 2010 and mingw. The argument is the path to your continuum.exe. Edited December 19, 2012 by jareth
Cheese Posted December 19, 2012 Author Report Posted December 19, 2012 and thats the winning ticketsandboxie was limited to +1 program do you think theres any negative consequences to closing that handle? SSC Distension OwnerSSCU Trench Wars Developer3:JabJabJab> sometimes i feel like when im in this mood im like a productive form of CheeseDr Brain> Pretty much everything you said was wrong. Except where you called me a lazy jerk with no time. That was true.3:KrynetiX> do you ever open your web browser and type ?go google5:Ceiu> Wow. My colon decided that was a good time to evacuate itself.
Jareth Posted December 19, 2012 Report Posted December 19, 2012 do you think theres any negative consequences to closing that handle? Could be, I haven't tested anything. I would bet that the mutex is only to limit the processes though.
Cheese Posted December 21, 2012 Author Report Posted December 21, 2012 that was my assumption as wellid bet youre correct SSC Distension OwnerSSCU Trench Wars Developer3:JabJabJab> sometimes i feel like when im in this mood im like a productive form of CheeseDr Brain> Pretty much everything you said was wrong. Except where you called me a lazy jerk with no time. That was true.3:KrynetiX> do you ever open your web browser and type ?go google5:Ceiu> Wow. My colon decided that was a good time to evacuate itself.
Jareth Posted December 21, 2012 Report Posted December 21, 2012 I've been using it for a while now and everything seems fine. Here is a download link for a compiled version if anybody else wants it.https://www.dropbox.com/s/73c8i0fe7s6b64b/multicont.zipRead the readme.txt.
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