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Neverwinter Nights seriesNWN2: Is it possible to use two installations at the same time, one English and one German?(4 posts)(4 posts)
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Posted July 25, 2015
I'm interested in playing some German language modules for NWN2 but my regular installation is English and I hate mixing the languages. Is there something to be said against installing the game another time, in German? So that I could play English modules with the English installation, German modules with the German installation? Would that terribly mess up things in the registry and the game? I imagine they might use the same documents folders?
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Posted July 26, 2015
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Leroux: I'm interested in playing some German language modules for NWN2 but my regular installation is English and I hate mixing the languages. Is there something to be said against installing the game another time, in German? So that I could play English modules with the English installation, German modules with the German installation? Would that terribly mess up things in the registry and the game? I imagine they might use the same documents folders?
Why not make two different Windows accounts, one with English locale, and one with German. Install the game in each local account, not global. Log out of one and into the other to swap languages.
Posted July 29, 2015
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Leroux: I'm interested in playing some German language modules for NWN2 but my regular installation is English and I hate mixing the languages. Is there something to be said against installing the game another time, in German? So that I could play English modules with the English installation, German modules with the German installation? Would that terribly mess up things in the registry and the game? I imagine they might use the same documents folders?
You can start the game with the -Home switch.

http://forum.bioware.com/topic/475079-installing-modules-separately-home-shortcut/
Posted July 29, 2015
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Hickory: Why not make two different Windows accounts, one with English locale, and one with German. Install the game in each local account, not global. Log out of one and into the other to swap languages.
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olnorton: You can start the game with the -Home switch.

http://forum.bioware.com/topic/475079-installing-modules-separately-home-shortcut/
Thanks for these two suggestions! I'll probably try the second one first, since the first seems a bit roundabout, but on the other hand it might prove a general solution for all those games that force my OS' language on me without giving me a chance to choose myself. I hadn't thought of creating an alternative English Windows account to trick these games into letting me play them in English. It would certainly beat having to switch my OS language every time I want to play one of these games and then switch it back afterwards.
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