In order to speed up my AI building, I'm trying to run two games simultaneously.

I can launch two dedicated servers no problem, but I can't seem to get TT to run two games at the same time on the same computer (I'd run them on different computers if I had that option).

Does anyone know why this is, and if there is a way around it?

Thanks!

Reinstall TT but rename the folder directory from ie. Bravetree/Think Tanks/ to something like Think tanks backup.
or you could just copy the entire folder and place the copy elewhere.

Oh nvm :o

Done that - doesn't work. :S

I think Chilled Lizard pointed out that on the Mac you can duplicate the unix executable file named ThinkTanks OSX found in ThinkTanks/Contents/MacOS. Then you can launch multiple games by double clicking each file. I ran 8 games simultaneously on one Dual 1Ghz Mac and then entered a game from another computer on the LAN.

You may be interested to know that one game of TT can utilize 100% of the 1 Ghz processor it's running on. So you can well imagine that the 8 games were processor-starved. When I entered a game from another computer on the LAN, I found that it took 10 full clips to kill a lighty. When I pinged those tanks they were less than 10 ms.

This tells you something about players running TT with less than the optimum amount of processor. They can have great ping while seeming to "not be accepting bullet hits".

^ in realm-wars (another torque game for those who dont know) we call those "miss-hits"
rather annoying... :)

Hmmm... I've got a P4, 2.4Ghz system. So running 2 at once should be alright, correct?

One way to approach an answer to your qusetion is to use a resource usage measuring application. Mac OS X currently comes with an app called Activity Monitor that will show processor usage as a percentage. I'm not sure what the Windows equivalent is.

Windows equivalent is ctrl + alt + delete (on XP) and then a click on the processes Tab

^.. And then? :P

You read the graphs and charts
It reports on cpu utilization - page file size - etc
Try it

@ Rooster, do you mean sumthing like this?