Bought 2 CE copies of game , subbed for 2 6 monthes subs, wont run 2 games?

If he's already tried logging them in, and found out that they wont work at the same time, I'm pretty sure he's probably already popped them open and registered the keys. No way to sell them now(at least, not unless he wants to break the EULA).

no kdding especially since money is no object, and also this sounds like a technical issue

The reason this will not work is because the game runs in elevated state. So as far as your system is concerned you are running the game as the Top Level Admin. So when you try to run the second copy the systems says it is already running.

There are a couple things you could try.

Load up one version of SWTOR normally, then right-click the SWTOR shortcut and select "Run as Administrator" to load up a second client. Usually when you can't load up multiple instances of the same application, the bottleneck is the user account. Now, if SWTOR is not designed to support running multiple instances then you risk having resource access conflicts when running two clients at once. Ex: Both accounts load up in the same space port, one account loads everything fine but the second account doesn't load any textures because the files were locked by the first instance of the game. Often leads to critical, game crashing errors.

The other thing you can do is duplicate your SWTOR install folder. Create a second SWTOR shortcut on your desktop that points to the second folder. Make sure you load the original, then the copy in order to run two instances of the game. You end up taking twice as much room on your harddrive, and you have to patch anything twice, but you should be able to run two copies of the game with no problems.

Create a new user account om your windows install and use runas to run swtor.exe second process under that account. Should elevate without issue I think!

Yea... I've never had a positive experience with "mulit-boxers". I personally don't see the point of it, and the first thought that comes to mind when someone does it is either they're going to:

1. Level up multiple characters side by side, either to sell, farm gold (which could be sold), or dominate the crafting/gathering market.

2. Stomp in WZs (damn 4 box ele shamans in WoW, not even funny, and he was in my guild). These guys made BGs in WoW no fun (admittedly, they were semi-rare), as they were generally fully PvP geared (before rated BGs).

3. Possibly legitimately level separate chars for themselves, to be used by the owner only, for end game raiding/PvP. Though why they would want to do this is beyond me, raiding was fun and all, but not fun enough (for me) to want to run several times a week.

In either case, multi-boxing puts a sour taste in my mouth. I realize that it's not necessarily against the rules, but at the same time I wouldn't feel as though I were "earning light side points". I think if people really want to level multiple chars, they should do it like the VAST majority of players do. This is all just my opinion though, I wouldn't mind more insight on why people multi- box.

Nobody says that 1 computer per client is "broken". My understanding is that's working as intended.

WoW allows multiboxing after several years of request.

The problem with multiboxing, is that most of the time people would use a third party program to multibox.

For instance: If I hit 1 on my Trooper, it will use an attack. But at the same time, 1 would heal my trooper from my healer.

For more advanced example: I can hit say 2 but nothing happens on my Trooper, but pressing 2 heals on my healer.

But, for most of the time, people can follow each other and heal when need by switching monitors/client to heal.

But, follow is broken right now.

Many? A very, very small minority dual- or multiboxes.

To OP: I have no sympathy for you. I've been on the receiving end of multiboxers in several MMORPGs, and I find it really annoying to run into 4,5,6 synchronized characters hitting you all at the same time. It serves you right if you wasted your money, and it gives me satisfaction that you feel some frustration. What goes around, comes around.

I bet Bioware makes it their top priority to allow the very small minority of multiboxers to run the game multiple times on their desktop simultaneously. Just imagine all the billions they would make off the few multiboxers.. and all the other "trivial" issues can wait.

Beware of the sarcasm.

I feel the OP's pain- I bought 7 copies of the CE to play on my $22,000 computer running 5 3-D monitors... No worky. I even drove 3 of my $450,000 Ferraris to 4 Best Buy's to interface with 30 Geek Squad dudes to assist me. No go. What gives BioWare?!

I would think that if I throw enough money and power at something, it should just work the way I want it to.