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2 accounts running with different video settings
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Ambril Gates
#1 - 2013-08-15 11:57:48 UTC
hey mates,

quick question, as i'm not getting to the point myself searching the forum and google.

have been playing EVE for some years on a win7 enviroment and with multiple clients.
so far, the ALT has only a secondary role in my day-by.day activities and video resolution/quality has been set to minimum on ALT characters, which works fine.

even after the patch with the launcher deployment, restarting EVE with different clients brought up the character screen with the defined resolution individually as per client-login. it (the program) was saving the video quality settings as per client somewhere in my config files.

now, my HDD has gone recently and i did a replacement, installed EVE (next to other crap, thanks to having backups) and launching 2 client sessions with MAIN and ALT characters as i did before.

however, even if i change in-game screen resolution and quality different in quality and resolution of windowed size, it does not keep the individual quality settings when shutting down and restarting clients.

it keeps quality settings to the setup of the latest exited client and those are valid for all clients (re)started. it's not a deal to re-do all settings on every start-up for high and low video quality, but somehow its annoying to some extend.

is there someone experiencing this or a similar situation or maybe having a solution for that already?

fly dangerous
AG
Jysella Halcyon
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2013-08-19 05:22:08 UTC
AG, the client stores settings individually for each install of Eve on the computer. If you have two eve installs you'll get two settings folders that can have different settings saved. You can also trick the computer into thinking that this is the case, using a symbolic link. Here's how:

Find where your eve files are installed. By default this is C:\Program Files (x86)\CCP\EVE\ for a 64-bit system, for 32-bit drop the "(x86)" throughout.
Keep the file window open, you'll want it later. Make note of exactly where the EVE folder is.
Go to your start menu and type "cmd".
Right click on cmd.exe and choose Run as administrator
Allow the program. This will bring up a command prompt.
Type "mklink /D C:\Program Files (x86)\CCP\EVE2\ C:\Program Files (x86)\CCP\EVE\" (without the quotes), substituting your EVE path if it's different.
You should now have another folder in C:\Program Files (x86)\CCP\ called EVE2 with an icon like a shortcut.
Click into the new folder, right click on eve.exe, and create a shortcut to put wherever is convenient (don't name it the same as your first eve shortcut).

What we've done here is make a virtual copy of your Eve files. both copies are the same, but the computer will treat them differently and so will Eve's settings management. You should now be able to launch the original client and the new client and define settings separately for each client.

Hope this helps.
Ambril Gates
#3 - 2013-09-25 14:12:20 UTC
many thanks for you hints JH.

indeed this is giving a solution to separate the clients by cloning the data.

this works ok for screen resolutions and settings, but some other strange behaviour occurs in the meaning of rights and PIDs of processes and caching of system files (SSD workarounds)

but i'm pretty surem this is config issues and non critical.

again, thanks a lot.

AG
Marcus Arelios
Blackjack Brigade
Eclectic Collective
#4 - 2013-11-02 01:44:07 UTC
Thanks again for this. I've been running multiple clients for a while now wanting different settings for mains vs alts and didn't think of this.