playing 2 versions of the game?

Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945 is a turn-based World War II strategy game stretching across the entire Eastern Front. Gamers can engage in an epic campaign, including division-sized battles with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results.

The critically and fan-acclaimed Eastern Front mega-game Gary Grigsby’s War in the East just got bigger and better with Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: Don to the Danube! This expansion to the award-winning War in the East comes with a wide array of later war scenarios ranging from short but intense 6 turn bouts like the Battle for Kharkov (1942) to immense 37-turn engagements taking place across multiple nations like Drama on the Danube (Summer 1944 – Spring 1945).

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Maximeba
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playing 2 versions of the game?

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I want to play two versions of the game. Is there a way to install the game so I can play 2 separate versions at the same time on the same computer?
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Shiva the Destroyer
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RE: playing 2 versions of the game?

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Yes, just install to 2 differently named game folders and set two different shortcuts to the individual "WarInTheEast.exe" files located in the two main game folders.
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thank you
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RE: playing 2 versions of the game?

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OK, I set up two different folders with two different short cuts. When I run the updates in one game both games end up with the same update. What am I doing wrong? Sorry, as you can tell by this post I'm not a computer jockey.
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The Update should only be installed in the location you installed last. Also the version shown in the game menu bar is read from the OS registry, the actual game .exe version is shown in the bottom right corner of the main menu.
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Shiva the Destroyer
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RE: playing 2 versions of the game?

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ORIGINAL: Denniss

The Update should only be installed in the location you installed last. Also the version shown in the game menu bar is read from the OS registry, the actual game .exe version is shown in the bottom right corner of the main menu.

Correct. Also, if the OP wishes to update 'both' installations, it will be necessary (using Windows Explorer) to judiciously manipulate the installation folder names around to accomplish it. (i.e. The registry stores the folder location name of the LAST installation)
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RE: playing 2 versions of the game?

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Thanks, for the info.

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