Multiboxing D2R without 3rd party programs or VM

Shupershuff wrote: 3 years ago

Outside of using multiple physical computers, it's not possible to multibox without using a 3rd party program (ie you either need handle or procexp which are both 3rd party apps) or one or more VM's. As noted above Blizzard don't have an issue with multiboxing. Just 3rd party apps manipulating the game. I think given handle and procexp don't actually impact game play at all, whilst they are still against ToS by definition of being a 3rd party app, they should be fine. I've not heard of anyone getting in trouble for it. As long as you're not adding any automation into the game you're fine.

Anywho, I wrote a PowerShell script earlier this year to handle multi-boxing. Kind of got sick of dealing with shortcuts etc. I added a menu and other features to it and eventually published to GitHub a couple months ago. If this is useful or interesting to you, you can check it out here: https://github.com/shupershuff/Diablo2RLoader/

There's a couple of other good options I've spotted on GitHub too. If you go looking make sure to use something that's open source and not some dodgy .exe.

I will say this though, script or not, if your current method involves opening the battlenet client or having to duplicate the install directory (taking up precious disk space) then you're doing it wrong. The best way to do it without using anyone's script or program, is to create shortcuts to d2r.exe and add parameters to the shortcut eg: d2r.exe -username <bnetaccountname> -password <AccountPW> -address <us/eu/kr>.actual.battle.net. Once the instance is opened obviously you'll need to kill the "Check for other instances" process handle using either handle.exe or procexp.

Whilst a lot of the earlier D2r multi-box guides that came out were great at the time, they are outdated now. The zeegers video shouldn't be used for advice in 2023 (or 2022 for that matter).