D2r Multibox - Topic

For anyone interested, you can automate the process of searching and killing the handle in Process Explorer, though you need the command-line version of it called Handle, it's from the same person who made Process Explorer and can be found googling Handle Microsoft.

To find the process, you run something like this:
handle -p D2R.exe -a "BaseNamedObjects\DiabloII Check For Other Instances" | findstr /C:"D2R.exe" | findstr /C:"Sessions"

which outputs:
D2R.exe pid: 17600 type: Event 550: \Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\DiabloII Check For Other Instances

Then you grab the PID (17600 in this case) and handle hex (550 in this case) and then you can run this to close the handle:
handle -p 17600 -c 550 -y

If you're good with coding, you can set it up so you just double-click the .bat script and it automatically kills the handle.

So in theory it seems like this should work. However, I was given errors when trying to do it via command prompt. Works great with the GUI version.

https://imgur.com/a/esUQVNr

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#193

Oct 20 2021 09:43am

Quote (kingmaker @ Oct 19 2021 12:26am)

oh god! how many licenses do you have? :o

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Oct 20 2021 09:51am

Quote (deathdiereaper @ Oct 20 2021 08:32am)

So in theory it seems like this should work. However, I was given errors when trying to do it via command prompt. Works great with the GUI version.

https://imgur.com/a/esUQVNr

That's the error you get when you don't run in admin mode. Similar to Process Explorer needing to be run in admin mode, handle needs to be called from a command window that's in admin mode.

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Oct 20 2021 09:54am

Quote (Pixol7391 @ Oct 20 2021 10:51am)

That's the error you get when you don't run in admin mode. Similar to Process Explorer needing to be run in admin mode, handle needs to be called from a command window that's in admin mode.

Ah good call! just did it in admin powershell

edit: so since the pid and hex change each time, it's not much faster to use batch files than it is to use GUI

Although, if someone could return the first part as a string and isolate the pid and hex, maybe with a vbs file instead of batch? if you could have it automatically grab the pid/hex and then close the handle then it would be phenomenal but I don't know if that is possible...

This post was edited by deathdiereaper on Oct 20 2021 09:58am

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#196

Oct 20 2021 10:06am

Thank you VTF!

If you were unclear as to what this meant like me:
"Make sure you allow multi boxing through your battle.net app before you start!"

1. click the 'gear' next to the PLAY button in the battle.net app
2. select 'Game Settings' in the menu that appears
3. select 'App' from the menu on the left
4. check box next to 'Allow multiple instances of Battle.net'

Hope that's helpful to someone out there