runing R5 and R6 at the same time

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runing R5 and R6 at the same time

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Hi,

I really like to work with R6 but I have some neat 32bit ffgl plugings (R5) which have not yet been converted to 64bit. Thought I could spout these text animations from R5 to R6 but I can't open R5 while R6 is running and can't open R6 while R5 is already running.

Anyone else having this issue?

(Windows 8.1, GTX 1060..)

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Yeah, that's not possible on windows.
Works on a mac though.
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Re: runing R5 and R6 at the same time

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damn

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If you have a spare machine, you could run R5 on that and Spout->NDI to Resolume 6 on the other machine via Ethernet.
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Re: runing R5 and R6 at the same time

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Could running one program as a different user on the same computer work under windows?

Also, I found a small bug when doing this on OSX. R6's comp FPS will be set to 5.x when you launch R5. I'm referring to the composition FPS setting under comp>settings...

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Re: runing R5 and R6 at the same time

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DayVeeJay wrote:Could running one program as a different user on the same computer work under windows?

Also, I found a small bug when doing this on OSX. R6's comp FPS will be set to 5.x when you launch R5. I'm referring to the composition FPS setting under comp>settings...
I would guess not as the same resource/service is still running across the entire platform, regardless of which user is tapping into that resource/service. I think the problem is that you can't have two instances of the resource/service "arena" running.
Could be wrong though? :)

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Re: runing R5 and R6 at the same time

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On windows if you go to computer mangement -> users and groups and then create a new user, you can then run Arena as that user using the the "runas" command that you could put into a shortcut. I used command prompt:

runas /user:<UserName> <program>

You may have to specify and enter the user's password to start the program. Resolume data is saved the same as normal except under the other users home folder.

I tested that both versions 5 and 6 can run at the same time - have not tested how this impacts performance if at all.

That being said: It doesnt sound like a good idea at all to be running 2 instances (and versions) of Resolume at the same time.

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Re: runing R5 and R6 at the same time

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What t13 describes is exactly what I was talking about. I'm glad to hear that it works

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Re: runing R5 and R6 at the same time

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Sure I could use a second machine but in my clubs often there isn't enough space to set up two machines (bar table 80x80cm etc.)

Performancewise I wouldn't load too many stuff aka a whole VJ set in R5 alongside R6 as I can't play live in two apps anyway (switching windows, no way). It's just about loading my beloved old flash content and using text animations with FFGL plugins that haven't been ported to 64bit yet.. Anyway I guess my computer would still run two instances of Resolume without sweating too much (R5 only uses 3GB Ram, not too big composition, good experiences running vvvv besides R etc..)

it would be great if arena.exe would just be re-named into arena5.exe and arena6.exe. Or maybe Resolume 2.41 with Spout output. Shouldn't be impossible :P

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