Two MTA sa clients?

[KagerA]

Is there a way to launch two (or more) copies of MTAsa clients on single computer and connect them to one server? For tests of course, i saw a topic about "test-bot", but creating such a thing is impossible for me, so, i thought, may be there is a much more easy solution?)

[50p]

No, you can't run 2 instances of MTA.

[KagerA]

what a pity. thx anyway

[BinSlayer1]

make 2 windows accounts and it is possible

[dzek (varez)]

i can confirm this, on another account you can run another instance of mta.

if you have more than one core, i suggest to (using task manager) set one instance to use CPU0 and another to CPU1

[KagerA]

em, but how do i launch 2 copies of gta sa? o_O

[Callum]

You can't, simple as.

[madis]

If you make two accounts you need to switch between them which is kind of time-consuming. I would suggest virtual machine instead - performance might be an issue, though.

[dzek (varez)]

lol, and virtual machine isnt time consuming? o_O

KagerA - make two windows accounts, run one mta/gta, then press windows_key + L choose another account, run another mta/gta..

[madis]

lol, and virtual machine isnt time consuming? o_O

You can run MTA in window and have virtual machine window next to it, so no, it is not time consuming.

EDIT: I assume you thought set-up time. I meant the time when using them.

EDIT2: OK, I tested it with VirtualBox. Only supported guest OSs for the new Direct3D support are Windows XP/Vista 32 bit, so I installed my XP SP3 there (legal and free, btw) (host OS is Windows 7 x64). I got it to work, but it's way too slow and resource hungry to render it useful, so atm I would not recommend virtual machine approach.

[dzek (varez)]

if you were talking about switching over and over - yes, its time consuming. i thought about one switch, just to have another player connected - this don't need much time.

i knew that virtual machine + gta will be pain for computer.. i used to run few VM, and even simple games was bit laggy..

[madis]

I got to run multiple gta_sa and mta instances too if killing the \Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\Grand theft auto San Andreas handler for gta_sa and similar handler for mta, but of course that doesn't really work, as the game would crash in half way of loading. I tried to edit the gta_sa.exe too, but failed... but it was interesting to do that and learn some new stuff.