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Is there a way to open two wwise projects at once?

+3 votes 
Is there any way to either open two projects simultaneously and span them across screens or open two instances of wwise?
I want to look at an old project I made as reference when building a new one.

Not easy to keep opening and closing each one.
Is this possible?
in General Discussion by Bernard R. (Audiokinetic) (35.8k points)

1 Answer

+2 votes
 
Best answer
1. Show system settings
 - Hold the keys [Windows] and [Pause|Break] on keyboard to show the System dialog
 - Click the "Advanced system settings" (on the left)
or
 - type "Advanced system settings" in the start menu
 - select "View Advanced system settings"

2. Go to "Advanced" tab
3. Click "Environment Variables" button
4. in the System Variables, click "New..."
5. Variable name: WWISE_MULTIPLE_INSTANCE
6. Variable value: 1
7. Click OK on 3 dialogs

Now you can restart Wwise twice.  Be aware of not opening the same project twice, you may get into trouble
by Bernard R. (Audiokinetic) (35.8k points)
selected by Claude B. (Audiokinetic)
How can this be done on a Mac?
asked Nov 14, 2016 in General Discussion by Monet G. (100 points)
How can this be done on a mac?
by Monet G. (100 points)
In a Mac, if you select both projects in quick sequence from the Wwise Launcher, both will open as separate Wwise instances. This may be considered a bug, however, and fixed down the line.
by Beatrix Moersch (3.3k points)
On Mac this is already supported by default, the trick is in the file Wwise.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Wwise/support/wwise/cxbottle.conf , where there is a line "WWISE_MULTIPLE_INSTANCE_NO_ASK"="". To disable the multiple-instance behaviour, simply comment this line out by prepending ";;"
by Beinan L. (Audiokinetic) (1.2k points)
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