dual accounts advice

[machomanugget 26]

hello guys,

Can anyone help? my son also now wants to play DayZ unfortuntely his laptop is not upto running it.. so he is going to use mine while im not online and with school summer holidays coming up will keep him quiet in the rainy weather that seems to be stuck over blighty..

My question after reading all the posts from search is..

What is the best way to install 2 copys of ARMA2/Combined Ops/DayZ?

is it 1 windows login 2 steam accounts? (2copys of A2 COSteam)

is it 2 windows logins 2 steam accounts? (2 copys of A2 COSteam)

is it 2 windows logins 1 steam account 1 retail Arma2 CO ?

or another way?

Does anyone know or have experience of getting it to have 2 seperate games / saves / accounts etc?

I dont want my lad on my save any longer, there seems to be alot of confusion regarding saves and accounts and i cant find a difinitive answer.

Can anyone help or have had same problem?

Many thanks

[sgtwilson 0]

hello guys' date='

Can anyone help? my son also now wants to play DayZ unfortuntely his laptop is not upto running it.. so he is going to use mine while im not online and with school summer holidays coming up will keep him quiet in the rainy weather that seems to be stuck over blighty..

My question after reading all the posts from search is..

What is the best way to install 2 copys of ARMA2/Combined Ops/DayZ?

is it 1 windows login 2 steam accounts? (2copys of A2 COSteam)

is it 2 windows logins 2 steam accounts? (2 copys of A2 COSteam)

is it 2 windows logins 1 steam account 1 retail Arma2 CO ?

or another way?

Does anyone know or have experience of getting it to have 2 seperate games / saves / accounts etc?

I dont want my lad on my save any longer, there seems to be alot of confusion regarding saves and accounts and i cant find a difinitive answer.

Can anyone help or have had same problem?

Many thanks

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Whilst I haven't tried, you can have multiple profiles on Arma. On the main menu, you can see the option for 'Profiles' and you can add from there - you'll figure it out.

Perhaps this will allow you to have two Characters under the one CD Key, but like I said, I've never tried it.

Give it a go.

[nickseemann@gmail.com 9]

hello guys' date='

Can anyone help? my son also now wants to play DayZ unfortuntely his laptop is not upto running it.. so he is going to use mine while im not online and with school summer holidays coming up will keep him quiet in the rainy weather that seems to be stuck over blighty..

My question after reading all the posts from search is..

What is the best way to install 2 copys of ARMA2/Combined Ops/DayZ?

is it 1 windows login 2 steam accounts? (2copys of A2 COSteam)

is it 2 windows logins 2 steam accounts? (2 copys of A2 COSteam)

is it 2 windows logins 1 steam account 1 retail Arma2 CO ?

or another way?

Does anyone know or have experience of getting it to have 2 seperate games / saves / accounts etc?

I dont want my lad on my save any longer, there seems to be alot of confusion regarding saves and accounts and i cant find a difinitive answer.

Can anyone help or have had same problem?

Many thanks

[/quote']

Whilst I haven't tried, you can have multiple profiles on Arma. On the main menu, you can see the option for 'Profiles' and you can add from there - you'll figure it out.

Perhaps this will allow you to have two Characters under the one CD Key, but like I said, I've never tried it.

Give it a go.

Nope still uses the same character because your character data on the hive is saved to your CD-Key. Profiles are just for different names/looks/controls.

[zanfu 0]

I just did this myslef. it works with steam/non steam.

All you have to do get the cd key from the Windows registry for Arma2 OA

(Arma2 can be the same, only need the one cd key) So if you want multiple accounts, just buy more Arma2 OP..

Then you can just change between the 2 cd keys in the registry, you'r profile will still be the same ingame (this only inclues you'r name and skin)

Here is a link to a thread that tells you how to do it.

Look at post #7

http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=12556

What you could do is to install arma2 OP arrowhead on you'r m8's laptop, just to get the cd key from his registry.. and he can use that to swap to his acount on you'r computer.

hope that helped

edit: I think you might just be able to use 2 steam accounts, and when you want to swap accounts, you just start opperation arrowhead on that steam account and it will change the CD-key for you in the registry. (not 100% sure if this works)

Edit: i just tried this. and it works. So if you don't want to mess around in the registry, just do this ! Good luck :)

[machomanugget 26]

hey guys,

no its a not a profile thing.. i want to buy another copy while its on sale for 14.99

i have a steam version on my own admin windows user account

i want my son to have his own arma2 combined operations (seperate cd key)

i just need to know if 2 windows accounts are needed (i dont really want him on my administrator account) i will make him his own log on to my pc..

If i buy him a retail arma2 combined ops and install it on a seperate windows login (no steam version) will this be alright?

i searched and read the other posts already before posting.. thanks for the ideas tho.. they dont really mention what i need info about tho unfortunatley

Cheers

EDIT: Zanfu did you use 2 steam accounts on 1 windows user account log in? or did you make 2 user accounts for windows?

[zanfu 0]

I use 2 steam accounts on the same Windows user. (only have 1)

But I have heard of peoples running it on two different Windows users, and it seasm to also work (just alot more work, patching two times etc)

I think it is inportant that you choose to install to just the one Windows user for every install of the game if you do it this way (Think it is a option when you install, to install to all users etc ?), not sure how the cd-keys are stored in the Windows registry when you have multiple Windows users accounts

but I have not tried this myself so I can not confirm if it works :(

EDIT: I don't think it matters if you use a normal retail arma2 combined ops, or steam version.

Safest bet would be to install on the same windows user account and just swap steam accounts, or if you know how to change the windows regisry that would be the best way