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Multiple installs
Topic Started: Aug 4 2015, 11:41 PM (1,387 Views)
tinpanalley
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Vod,5 October 2017
11:02 PM
The main game directories (containing NHL2004.exe) can be named whatever you want.

Interesting. Not working for me unless I call it NHL 2004. Maybe because that's what I installed to?
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tinpanalley,5 October 2017
3:28 PM
Vod,5 October 2017
11:02 PM
The main game directories (containing NHL2004.exe) can be named whatever you want.

Interesting. Not working for me unless I call it NHL 2004. Maybe because that's what I installed to?

As long as you use the launcher to start the game, it shouldn't matter.
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11:45 PM
As long as you use the launcher to start the game, it shouldn't matter.

I'll keep playing with it.
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I'm not 100% sure what the problem is but this still doesn't work. I have a theory. I'm running this Windows7 on my dual boot desktop. There's another HDD that has Windows 10 installed. For some reason, the regular documents folder isn't accessible to me for this Win7 install so I have to go to User\my name\Documents\... and it keeps changing My Documents to just Documents. No matter how many times I edit the ini it just won't go to the right folder. I think it has something to do with this inability to use the correct "My Documents" folder and for some reason the mydocspath instruction only able to go to that very documents folder I don't have access to.
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The folder is not necessarily \My Documents.

It's the one where the game automatically creates the \db and \ditties subfolders when you make a raw installation of NHL 2004.

You have to duplicate that one.

Let's just assume that folder in your computer is

C:\My Documents\Tinpanalley\NHL 2004

rename that folder to

C:\My Documents\Tinpanalley\NHL 2004 Vintage1 <- when you're not playing that version

then create another folder with

C:\My Documents\Tinpanalley\NHL 2004

and copy all the contents from Vintage1 folder there.

The game registry doesn't care how many times these folders are duplicated in your hard drive. It's always looking for the exact folder where the game was originally installed to.

Do same thing with your actual installation folder

rename
C:\NHL 2004 Vintage2

and create a duplicate of that folder and name it

C:\NHL 2004

Now you have two installations. It's so amazingly simple. It has nothing to do with Windows 7.
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tinpanalley,18 January 2018
2:48 PM
I'm not 100% sure what the problem is but this still doesn't work. I have a theory. I'm running this Windows7 on my dual boot desktop. There's another HDD that has Windows 10 installed. For some reason, the regular documents folder isn't accessible to me for this Win7 install so I have to go to User\my name\Documents\... and it keeps changing My Documents to just Documents. No matter how many times I edit the ini it just won't go to the right folder. I think it has something to do with this inability to use the correct "My Documents" folder and for some reason the mydocspath instruction only able to go to that very documents folder I don't have access to.

Open a folder and go to the navigation field or open the "run" window and type the following:

%userprofile%\documents\

The folder it takes you to is the default value of mydocspath.
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trent,18 January 2018
11:15 PM
Now you have two installations. It's so amazingly simple. It has nothing to do with Windows 7.

No, no.. I think you've misunderstood. What @Vod and I are talking about isn't how to have several installs of the game. We're talking about how to have several installs modified in the launcher.ini file so that you never need to change the name of the My Documents saves folder again by telling the launcher ini where to look for that install's saves.
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12:17 AM
Open a folder and go to the navigation field or open the "run" window and type the following:

%userprofile%\documents\

The folder it takes you to is the default value of mydocspath.

Ok, I'll try that today. See if it helps me modify the path as you were trying to tell me.

EDIT: Nope, it just won't work. I've done this over and over.

Let's call my NHL documents path [MY PATH] for brevity. I take my Vintage 02 [MY PATH] that contains the DB, EASO, USER, etc, create an "NHL 2004" folder in it and put the contents in there. So that I'm pretending [MY PATH] is actually the computer's default "User \ Documents" folder and can then find NHL 2004 which in this case is the only thing in there at all.
I'm then directing launcher.ini to [MY PATH] where it should ONLY find the NHL 2004 it's looking for and no luck. It just creates a new NHL 2004 in the real User \ Documents.
I can't explain it. There isn't some other line you also need to include is there?
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This has always been an iffy feature due to the way it works. It has a higher chance of being intercepted by security software since it's a process-wide hook. So if you have any security software, I would see if there's any evidence of it blocking this feature. There's some minor improvements in the next version, but it'll have to be rewritten at some point to increase reliability.
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This has always been an iffy feature due to the way it works. It has a higher chance of being intercepted by security software since it's a process-wide hook. So if you have any security software, I would see if there's any evidence of it blocking this feature. There's some minor improvements in the next version, but it'll have to be rewritten at some point to increase reliability.

Ok, I see. Well, it's not an antivirus thing. I only use that Win7 for playing games so I don't let it connect online anyway. To be honest it's not such a big pain anyway.
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