Start the game from 2 different harddrives with the new launcher.

Saw someone ingame was wondering how to launch the game from two different harddrives with the new launcher.

I had the same problem, wanted to run one client from my SSD, and two clients from my regular HDD.

Fixed it by doing this, saved me a ton of time (changing all the settings in each of the clients) and frustration (lag cause of 3x clients running from same harddrive etc).


Wrote this "guide" in a hurry, probably might be hard to understand for some.. but most people should get the idea. :o



1. Open REGEDIT and go to "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\NCWest\LINEAGE2"
If you're using 32-bit version of windows, you probably dont need the "Wow6432Node" part, NCWest should be found in SOFTWARE, just look.

2. Rightclick "LINEAGE2" and export it, save it to your desktop and name it "Backup"

3. Export the same one again, this time name it "L2 harddrive 1" or something like that, so you remember which one it is.

4. Click LINEAGE2 and you will enter its 'folder'.. you'll see "BaseDir", doubleclick that one and change to the location to point to your 2nd Lineage 2 installation, i.e first it was "C:/Lineage2", 2nd one could be "F:/Lineage2"

5. After you changed it, rightclick LINEAGE2 again and export it to your desktop, name it "L2 harddrive 2"

6. You now have 3 exported files, one backup incase you screw up, and 2 files that will change the location of your Lineage 2 folder (obviously you need 2x copies of lineage, one on each location)

7. Rightclick "L2 harddrive 1" and choose "Edit".
Copy the location and "BaseDir" info, in my case it was this

Quote:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\NCWest\LIN EAGE2] "BaseDir"="C:\\Games\\NCSoft"

7. Rename the "Lineage II" shortcut on your desktop (that opens the launcher) to "Lineage", will be easier for the next step.

9a. Open another instance of notepad.
In this one, write this.

@echo off
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\NCWest\LINEAGE2 /V BaseDir /T REG_SZ /F /D "C:\Games\NCSoft"
cd C:\Users\Fredrik\Desktop
start lineage.lnk

9b.
You will have to change the "CD C:\Users\Fredrik\Desktop" into the name of your PC, in my case its "Fredrik".

Edit the "C:\Games\NCSoft" to fit your own game location, you copied yours in Step 7.

Also note the "wow6432node" part, depending on your windows version you might not need it, as i said in the beginning of the post, again, reference with that you copied in step 7.

start lineage.lnk will start the shortcut on your desktop named "Lineage", make sure you rename the shortcut, and dont miss the ".lnk" part.

9c. After you have edited everything, save it as "L2one.bat", make sure you change the "Save as type" from "Text document .txt" to "All files" in the drop down menu in notepad.

10. Now you have a .bat file that will automatically edit the game location and then start the launcher.

11. Copy the .bat file you just created.
Rightclick, choose edit.
Change the game location from (in my case) "C:\Games\NCSoft" to "D:\Program Files (x86)\NCSoft".

Save.

12. Now you have two different bat files, the first one will change your game location to #1 and start the game, second one will change the game location to #2 and then start the game.
I have mine setup so I run my "main" client from my SSD.
My boxed clients from my regular HDD.

13.
If you want to make it look pretty..
Open your system folder in Lineage 2, copy l2.bin and rename the copy l2.exe (basically make the copy into a .exe file from .bin)
Rightclick each of the .bat files you created, make a shortcut of them.
Rightclick the shortcut > properties > shortcut tab > "Change icon.." > browse to your L2 system folder, choose l2.exe, click open > ok > ok.
Now your shortcuts have the original Lineage 2 icons..

Start the game from 2 different harddrives with the new launcher.