Can you have alpha 8 and alpha 9 loaded on your computer ?

[Mese]

As the title says

Im really enjoying my latest alpha 8 game and want to finish it but I also really want to try out the new alpha 9.
So , do I have to uninstall alpha 8 before installing alpha 9 or can I play them as two seperate games ?

[Goo Poni]

It's just a zip folder. Extract it elsewhere and just make sure not to load up on your A8 world or save while playing A9 as they will likely still be present.

[laston]

I have 18 different version on my computer. Just each one is in a different folder.

[Feniks]

not on my it all crashes if i load old version for some reason.

[iame6162013]

not on my it all crashes if i load old version for some reason.

But you should know that you can't use an old version of a save file on a newer version of rimworld (you also can't use a newer version of the save file in an older version of the game)

[Mese]

well I tried and alpha 9 works fine ... but when I went to load alpha 8 all the mods had been x'd out and I had to 'allow' them again , saved the game closed to desktop , went back into  9 , closed out and opened 8 again and all the mods were x'd out again

Just not worth the hassle to play one game , sadly

Still I have alpha 9 so im not complaining

[skullywag]

Theres a tool on the tools section that allows windows users to have "instances". Might be worth a look.

Edit - this one
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=10250.0