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bknoth2

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Can I have V14 and V13.5 installed on the same machine?
« on: May 18, 2018, 03:55:41 am »
I tried installing V14 on two machines with V13.5 on them and V14 overwrote V13.5 both time. It seems like others have installed both on the same machine. Is it possible? Did I miss an option during installation? (Win 10 platform)

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Re: Can I have V14 and V13.5 installed on the same machine?
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2018, 06:53:30 am »
(Re-)Install V13.5. Rename the program folder from EA to EA13.5. Install V14. You can launch V13.5 directly from program files/EA13.5/EA.exe

The same way you can keep as many EA versions as you want.

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Re: Can I have V14 and V13.5 installed on the same machine?
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2018, 09:06:16 am »
What qwerty suggests is basically running one version as zero config.

See our user guid for how to do this officially. Zero Config Client Support

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Re: Can I have V14 and V13.5 installed on the same machine?
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2018, 09:30:21 am »
Thanks Simon and qwerty,

I figured there was a simple answer.

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Re: Can I have V14 and V13.5 installed on the same machine?
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2018, 09:40:36 am »
(Re-)Install V13.5. Rename the program folder from EA to EA13.5. Install V14. You can launch V13.5 directly from program files/EA13.5/EA.exe

The same way you can keep as many EA versions as you want.

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We also take the precaution of renaming the .exe we don't want to be the "default" to something other than EA.exe.

We also sometimes use multiple instances of the same version to help with our large overnight processing tasks - each .exe has it's own name so we can figure out who's doing what.

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