Quote (MP5_THuG @ Sep 30 2021 06:02pm)
Hyper-V does not natively allow GPU passthrough. You need to jump through some hoops for that. Run the VM as gen 2, turn off enhanced session and checkpoints. You will not have sound on your VM without enhanced session and in gen 2, if you really want it you will have to pass it through some other way. You will need to copy your video card drivers in the System32 folder to your VM, and run the powershell script for GPU Paravirtualization (GPU-P) on the host machine, you can find it all over the internet. If you have a second PC that can handle D2R at a reasonable frame rate, awesun > teamviewer, and Parsec is probably better (faster) than anything else for remote desktop D2R.
I don't understand why we respond to people bad-mouthing people who want to load 2 instances of the game. This thread is a "how to", not an invitation of opinion on whether it should be allowed. All of its uses are deeply rooted in the game culture over 2 decades no matter how much blizzard says "you don't need to mule anymore". Self rushing, MFing with 2 toons (1 tele, 1 kill), etc, legit utility and not botting. You think I want to sit there for half hour in a game while someone on JSP takes their time coming to "buy it now"? Hell no, I'll stick my other acc in a game with the item and continue playing until the other guy gets there.
Blizzard does not explicitly forbid one player manually controlling two instances of the game in neither their platform (b.net client) TOS nor the D2R TOS, and frankly this ain't D3 where you get 20 end-game uniques in a couple of 5 minute rifts, with personalized loot and full drop on each toon, where something like keystroke/mouse cloning would be "advantageous". If someone were to run fully optimized multiboxing 8 characters even with mouse/keyboard broadcasting/cloning it would not give an advantage in terms of loot because they would likely be clearing the zones significantly slower than a single player would. The only advantage out of it would be the fact that they're gaining experience on 8 characters, with a much higher chance of death on each character ;). Most players would not enjoy the experience of "multiboxing" in this way. All people really want is a way to load 2 clients and are willing to purchase a second account to have the utility of rushing themselves and sitting in trade games etc, among others. This great "advantage" just doesn't exist in D2 the way it does in D3 due to different loot systems. Additionally, the massive bots would not be affected by this strongly, as they can buy bulk cloud computing and proxy residential IPs, so as far as blizz is concerned they're all running on separate computers and separate IPs anyway. This constant reference to botting when players discuss loading 2 instances of the game is just ignorant.
I'm hoping that when they're done dealing with the massive crashes, they will just give us an .exe something like the SC2switcher and a login screen on the client. (By the way great job Blizz Devs, we, the players can see that you are working on fixes day to day even though Big Daddy Activision wanted to release an unfinished product). A large number of players are happy to shell out $40 for a second account for the quality of life utility it provides, they're missing out on these sales.
I hope this helps, and I hope some of the "anti-multibox" folks found it educational.
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also I'm curious because I haven't done the ol VMWare/sandboxie thing in a while and saw bnet has a multiple instances setting (use at own risk weird stuff happens) so ya, I'd be one of those willing to get another account. I can alt tab with the best of em.