[QUOTE=krh234;35192987]i also have another question
we need a copy of the steam folder for each account your going to idle on right? so if you got like 5 accoutns thats like 100gb of space for steams u need :/
and did the people here buy sandboxie or did u get it through other means.[/QUOTE]You need a steam folder for each account, but don't need to copy the steamapps folder, which is the largest. You make symbolic links to your steamapps folder which saves a lot of space. Mouseketeer recommends making one copy of steamapps to link to but I link to my main steamapps and don't have any problems.
This thread explains more about the process of setting up your idle account folders and Sandboxie: [url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1102531-Advanced-Mann-Conomy-How-to-idle-with-multiple-accounts[/url]
thanks for reply but one part is very pissing me off big time
he wants me to copy and paste these lines in but my folders are set up way different then his with different names
mklink /D steamapps <main steamapps path>For example:
cd C:\"Program Files (x86)"\Steam
mklink /D steamapps "D:\Games\Steam"Or if you didn't move steamapps:
cd C:\Idle\Steam1
mklink /D steamapps "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps"
ok NVM found out the name: C:\Users\Kev\Desktop\steam2\steamapps but still i dont know what to input in the cmd. anyone have any idea what to put in ? thanks if u can help
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[QUOTE=krh234;35224606]thanks for reply but one part is very pissing me off big time
he wants me to copy and paste these lines in but my folders are set up way different then his with different names
mklink /D steamapps <main steamapps path>For example:
cd C:\"Program Files (x86)"\Steam
mklink /D steamapps "D:\Games\Steam"Or if you didn't move steamapps:
cd C:\Idle\Steam1
mklink /D steamapps "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps"
i dont know what to enter. the folder with steam apps in it is called steam2 not that other bullshit with Idle in it or w/e. here is a picture
i dont know what to put in the cmd thing because my folder does not have a big line of words saying stuff like C:/program files and all that jazz. just steam2[/QUOTE]
Substitute the path and folder name you're using for each idle account when you change directory and the location of the steamapps folder you want to link to.
man i dont know what that means really. but i updated my post right before u posted.
cd C:\Steam2
mklink /D steamapps "C:\Users\Kev\Desktop\steam2\steamapps"
i tried that and it didnt work either
[QUOTE=krh234;35225119]man i dont know what that means really. but i updated my post right before u posted.[/quote]
cd C:\Steam2 [B]this should be the directory of the alt steam account you want to idle[/B]
mklink /D steamapps "C:\Users\Kev\Desktop\steam2\steamapps" [B]this should be the path of your main steam installation[/B]
The important thing to remember is that for each alt steam account that you want to idle, you need to make a new folder and copy the contents of your main steam folder into it, except for steamapps. It is to this folder you need to change directory to before using the mklink command.
For some reason it signs in all the steam accounts and then it stops doing anything. (Also on my third account it wont sign in at all (2 errors, not enough hard drive space (lol there's 200 gig's left) and no internet connection? )
Anyone that could possibly help me out? :)
Thanks in advance.
Edit:
It tells me on every account that no connection could be made :s
I keep getting this error, over and over and over. Anyone else?
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/XR9s9.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=stategamer;35229809]For some reason it signs in all the steam accounts and then it stops doing anything. (Also on my third account it wont sign in at all (2 errors, not enough hard drive space (lol there's 200 gig's left) and no internet connection? )
Anyone that could possibly help me out? :)
Thanks in advance.
Edit:
It tells me on every account that no connection could be made :s[/QUOTE]
Perhaps your router isn't forwarding the ports correctly?
[editline]22nd March 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=blksith0;35239158]I keep getting this error, over and over and over. Anyone else?
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/XR9s9.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
I have that error on rare occasions. I usually terminate the sandboxes, empty the sandbox contents and then delete any account folders linked to those accounts to give myself a clean sandbox.
[QUOTE=Moussekateer;35239374]Perhaps your router isn't forwarding the ports correctly?
[editline]22nd March 2012[/editline]
I have that error on rare occasions. I usually terminate the sandboxes, empty the sandbox contents and then delete any account folders linked to those accounts to give myself a clean sandbox.[/QUOTE]
Alternatively, you can turn of the friends overlay in game. To do so, open Steam on each account and do the following:
Settings > In-Game > Uncheck Enable Steam Community In-Game
Hm. TF2 updated today and now all the accounts launched are validating, is this normal behavior?
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/lL0tH.jpg?1[/IMG]
I did the Copy GCFs procedure, also.
[editline]23rd March 2012[/editline]
Well that doesn't seem to happen anymore, however now I consistently get this error when launching an account that's sandboxed.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/qtWJ5.jpg[/IMG]
Any advice to fix that there?
I can't launch all the accounts because of the No internet or No space issue. Though, running it unsandboxed works. Something's wrong with the idle setup.
[QUOTE=Boben;34991618]Can you add to options launching steam's in /low priority?[/QUOTE]
Reposted.
These are the two errors i keep getting:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/UDLBk.png[/IMG]
:S
Check a mk links for yours account. And,.. may be you have a small hard drive disk? Or due wrongful mk links steam start try to download TF2 on your small hard drive disk.
[QUOTE=loolpaso;35258069]Check a mk links for yours account. And,.. may be you have a small hard drive disk? Or due wrongful mk links steam start try to download TF2 on your small hard drive disk.[/QUOTE]
I still have 300 gig available, so that cant be the case. Probably the mlink mistake, but if i click on the shortcut thats in each of the idle account folders, it doesnt go anyware (I thought it would have gone to the shared one)
MK links works just fine when I press EM they go to the main steam folder. The problem is that, it simply won't work because when start it with sandboxie it tells you that a file is way to big for sandboxie (gcf file) therefor it's obvious that you get the connection and disk issue because they try to download gcf files to each specific idle folder and not using the mklink.
[QUOTE=stategamer;35258185]I still have 300 gig available, so that cant be the case. Probably the mlink mistake, but if i click on the shortcut thats in each of the idle account folders, it doesnt go anyware (I thought it would have gone to the shared one)[/QUOTE]
mklink should go to steamapps folder of main steam folder.
[QUOTE=blksith0;35257110]Hm. TF2 updated today and now all the accounts launched are validating, is this normal behavior?[/QUOTE]
Be sure to run an unsandboxed instance on one of the accounts.
[QUOTE=GreenDolphin;35258937]Be sure to run an unsandboxed instance on one of the accounts.[/QUOTE]
No matter if unsandboxed or sandboxed, just update TF2 on one of them before.
I understand that this is supposed to be completely legit and that nobody has gotten in trouble from it etc....but I have one question...
Has anyone actually asked anyone from Valve whether or not this is considered cheating? I mean, running multiple TF2 instances at once seems legit....but I don't wanna get banned.
[QUOTE=Locutus.;35259289]I understand that this is supposed to be completely legit and that nobody has gotten in trouble from it etc....but I have one question...
Has anyone actually asked anyone from Valve whether or not this is considered cheating? I mean, running multiple TF2 instances at once seems legit....but I don't wanna get banned.[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure they talked about this on r/tf2.
It pretty much came down to, that they are ok with it, since your are not manipulating the game in any way like the (previous) idling method, where manipulating was involved.
You also might want to take a look at this guy : [url]http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/User:Nooch[/url]
[QUOTE=Jake Tower;35227352]cd C:\Steam2 [B]this should be the directory of the alt steam account you want to idle[/B]
mklink /D steamapps "C:\Users\Kev\Desktop\steam2\steamapps" [B]this should be the path of your main steam installation[/B]
The important thing to remember is that for each alt steam account that you want to idle, you need to make a new folder and copy the contents of your main steam folder into it, except for steamapps. It is to this folder you need to change directory to before using the mklink command.[/QUOTE]
yea i know i did all that but when im using the CMD nothing works when i put in my lines. i dont know what to type in there because its different then what the OP made it
so what i need help with is when using CMD what should i put down in that so i can link the main steamapps to my alt folders?? because i dont know what to type in there since everything is different then what the op did. i thought if i gave the name of my folder someone might know what to do for mine and tell me the line of words to put in
folder name: C:\Users\Kev\Desktop\steam2\steamapps
how do i transfer that into the code name for cmd? thx
krh, did you make a copy of your steamapps or are you using the original?
Either way, you have to have a copy of the Steam folder for EACH account, then you make the "mklink" in each accounts steam folder to your copied/original steamapps folder.
So you could have it like:
C:/SteamCopy
. .blksith1
. . . .<copy a steam.exe in here and run it>
. .blksith2
. . . .<copy a steam.exe in here and run it>
. .blksith3
. . . .<copy a steam.exe in here and run it>
But then you gotta have the steamapps, so we make them all have a mklink thing to just one steamapps folder.
So it would be:
mklink /d "C:/SteamCopy/blksith1/[b]steamapps[/b]" "C:\Users\Kev\Desktop\steam2\steamapps"
(Assuming that your steam2/steamapps folder has all this junk inside it, the GCFs and your user folders)
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/qx5ZF.jpg?1[/IMG]
Do that for each account.
So after that, you have a steam directory with a working steamapps folder for each account that you want to idle.
[QUOTE=B-Rabbit;34587416]Awesome program and doesn't have virus in it!
[URL="http://virusscan.jotti.org/en-gb/scanresult/6f434c37d0451a2aafabf08db5f88fa0dad72533/247d7c792d9c0e7fb8bb29d85812ece02cb0594d][t]http://i.imgur.com/is9xS.png[/t][/URL]
After trying it, it's TF2 text mode idling but more user friendly (and easy to manage if you want to idle with X amounts of chars).
To anyone trying to idle, first add account, then press on it, push yellow button named "Idle Unsanboxed" and you're ready to go.[/QUOTE]
How did you scan like that?
[QUOTE=Mr_Awesome;35276879]How did you scan like that?[/QUOTE]
Any of these.
[url]https://www.virustotal.com/[/url]
[url]http://virusscan.jotti.org/en[/url]
[url]http://www.novirusthanks.org/[/url]
[QUOTE=blksith0;35269822]krh, did you make a copy of your steamapps or are you using the original?
Either way, you have to have a copy of the Steam folder for EACH account, then you make the "mklink" in each accounts steam folder to your copied/original steamapps folder.
So you could have it like:
C:/SteamCopy
blksith1
<copy a steam.exe in here and run it>
blksith2
<copy a steam.exe in here and run it>
blksith3
<copy a steam.exe in here and run it>
But then you gotta have the steamapps, so we make them all have a mklink thing to just one steamapps folder.
So it would be:
mklink /d "C:/SteamCopy/blksith1/[b]steamapps[/b]" "C:\Users\Kev\Desktop\steam2\steamapps"
(Assuming that your steam2/steamapps folder has all this junk inside it, the GCFs and your user folders)
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/qx5ZF.jpg?1[/IMG]
Do that for each account.
So after that, you have a steam directory with a working steamapps folder for each account that you want to idle.[/QUOTE]
yes right now i only want 3 accounts to run at once. i already have 2 completely copied and im trying to work the 3rd with having everything coppied but the steam apps. im trying to link my steam apps from my main steam folder into the 3rd one without steam apps
the only thing i need help is what to wright in the cmd. mklink /d "C:/SteamCopy/blksith1/steamapps" "C:\Users\Kev\Desktop\steam2\steamapps" wont work becase i dont have anything named steamcopy or anything like that. im just confused what to put in the CMD for MY version of folders. everything is just all fucked up becuz everyone has different names then what my folders are called so im confused
but thanks for reply. maybe i could take more pictures of my stuff and someone would know what to put in the cmd? man this last step is just pissing me off. if i had more room i would just install the folders with steam apps
Uh. You put the file path of whatever YOU have. I don't know what your folder structure is like though.
mklink /d C:\Users\Kev\Desktop\steam2\steamapps
ill try that but i doubt it will work... this is fuckin bull shit! 2 complicated
ya nope dont work
ill give someone 2mannco keys if they go on team viewer with me and can help me
Can anyone help me?
I don't know what to do with the Steam API key. I see that it's only in the main settings window, which means there can only be one key? For which of my 8 accounts should I make the key for?
[QUOTE=timothyli;35278674]Can anyone help me?
I don't know what to do with the Steam API key. I see that it's only in the main settings window, which means there can only be one key? For which of my 8 accounts should I make the key for?[/QUOTE]
You can make it for any account.
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