2 steam instances at once?

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I'm trying to run 2 instances of steam at once, to run Ark: survival ascended on 2 steam accounts. What's the best way to accomplish this?

I read that there's a thing called Sandboxie that can do it? does anyone have an experience with it? where is it obtained? is it reliable?
 
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I'm trying to run 2 instances of steam at once, to run Ark: survival ascended on 2 steam accounts. What's the best way to accomplish this?

I read that there's a thing called Sandboxie that can do it? does anyone have an experience with it? where is it obtained? is it reliable?
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I'm trying to run 2 instances of steam at once, to run Ark: survival ascended on 2 steam accounts. What's the best way to accomplish this?

I read that there's a thing called Sandboxie that can do it? does anyone have an experience with it? where is it obtained? is it reliable?
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You'll need a second windows license to run a VM but any will work.
 
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Steam Community :: Guide :: How to run two Steam accounts at once on the same computer

Sometimes you need to run multiple Steam accounts on the same computer, for example when having a second account as a mule. Read this guide to learn how to set this up without using virtualization
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I set steam to always ask which account to use when logging in
I set up steam family sharing between my two accounts
Each account owns a copy of the game I am running twice
I have two .bat files on my desktop: (you can make them in notepad and then rename them to .bat)
I double click the first .bat file and select my 1st steam account, wait for login to finish
I double click the second .bat file and select my 2nd steam account, wait for login to finish
to launch whatever game i use the steam interface instead of a desktop shortcut

<steam1.bat>
set VPROJECT=steammulti
start "Steam1" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe" -master_ipc_name_override steam1

<steam2.bat>
set VPROJECT=steammulti
start "Steam2" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe" -master_ipc_name_override steam2 -userchooser
 
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very cool. so i couldn't get the bat files to work, cus maybe i'm bat file retarded, but i manually put in the cmd lines and indeed have 2 instances of ark running, pretty cool. however when i launched the second it closed the first. i presume because they're installed in the same place?

I wonder if installing it in another place or renaming the Exe would prevent this.

Edit: i launched 2 but battleeye won't start a second time, preventing the whole operation it seems. telling one to launch without battle eye launches both, but to connect to official server it says you have to restart with battle eye.

excelent try. may not be possible with battle eye, i found threads online of folks trying to figure it out. great info either way.
 
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