multiclienting on windows 7

[Cheese]

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 improvement

however, 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 access

nothing critical, but still terribly annoying

[Samapico]

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...

[Cheese]

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

[JoWie]

https://www.virtualbox.org/ hehe

If i recall correctly http://www.sandboxie.com/ works too

Edited December 9, 2012 by JoWie

[Cheese]

using vms is cheating

 

also very slow and unwieldy with a huge overhead

[Dr Brain]

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).

[Jareth]

Fast user switching works, I believe. It is very inconvenient though. Virtual machines are the best option.

[Cheese]

you people -_-"

[JoWie]

Sandboxie is not a VM

[Cheese]

i can confirm that sandboxie works, but i wish there was a way using os facilities

 

feels like such a hack

[Jareth]

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/2q2xGqKX

Tested with visual studio 2010 and mingw.

 

The argument is the path to your continuum.exe.

Edited December 19, 2012 by jareth

[Cheese]

and thats the winning ticket

sandboxie was limited to +1 program

 

do you think theres any negative consequences to closing that handle?

[Jareth]

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]

that was my assumption as well

id bet youre correct

[Jareth]

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.zip

Read the readme.txt.