RLH said:
Please help. I need to know how to install a second copy of a game (COD)
so
we can each have our own saved game files - i.e. run independently. One
machine, 1 partition, Win XP. My son's account is "restricted". I've put
him in the "Power User" group.
I'd like to install other applications for his use that won't interfere
with
other users or global settings.
Any ideas?
Unfortunately this is entire down to the games themselves.
However - I think there may be a solution with this game, now Quake 3 (Call
of Duty uses the Quake 3 engine) will run completely separately of
everything if you simply make two installs, it doesn't care at all about the
registry or any system wide settings.
So if you can get it installed (again), you may have to run setup.exe or
some other program on the CD to install it again if the splash-launcher
doesn't let you, dump the new install into another directory. Then simply
point your son's shortcuts on his Start menu to the new location.
If it behaves like Quake 3 - it will simply store all it's settings, saves
all within that directory.
The only thing is the system will think the new install is the only install
of Call of Duty (I'd imagine it would over-write the old keys to where it's
located and uninstall info) - so when you come to remove the original
installation you'll simply have to manually delete it.
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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
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