Switching database/doctrine.

[Fish]

Switching database/doctrine.
I have stock + 101, and 101+LWAMI.
Can I do the same with 101+103beta? :-?

[MaHuJa]

Best you can do is the dual install - it's been documented how elsewhere on the forum.

Essentially, you install the first, patch it as you want it, save the registry entries to a file, remove said entries, and install a second copy. Save the new registry entries to another file. Then load up the registry entries of the version you want to play.

I think it's somewhere around - local_machine\software\sonalysts combat simulations - or if you need the walkthrough search the forum for something like "beta dual install"

If you want to minimize the extra space used, you can junction the folders not modified by the patch - such as the world folder, and probably the audio folder. (Requires NTFS; which requires win2k or XP)
See http://www.elsdoerfer.info/ntfslink/ for the software needed for that.

[Fish]

Best you can do is the dual install - it's been documented how elsewhere on the forum.

Essentially, you install the first, patch it as you want it, save the registry entries to a file, remove said entries, and install a second copy. Save the new registry entries to another file. Then load up the registry entries of the version you want to play.

I think it's somewhere around - local_machine\software\sonalysts combat simulations - or if you need the walkthrough search the forum for something like "beta dual install"

If you want to minimize the extra space used, you can junction the folders not modified by the patch - such as the world folder, and probably the audio folder. (Requires NTFS; which requires win2k or XP)
See http://www.elsdoerfer.info/ntfslink/ for the software needed for that.

Thanks MaHuJa, but not what I asked. :roll:

[LuftWolf]

No, you cannot swap 1.01 with 1.03b as if it were a mod, it overwrites too much stuff to make that viable.

It's much better to do the dual install.

[Fish]

Thanks Luftwolf.
II don't like to pore in the registry, easy for you perhaps but scary for me.

[LuftWolf]

Interestingly, once you export the registry file (which is totally safe, you can't mess anything up in the registry like that) and save it to your desktop, it really is very simple, as you only have to click on the .reg file you created to install it into the registry.

So if you have two versions of DW .reg files, swapping them out is as easy as clicking on one or the other and saying yes. :up: