[SOLVED] Seamless Coop and Vanilla Elden Ring. Can I launch both without having to uninstall?

[Friends with Benedicts]

So playing again with my friend on Coop mode sparked a fire on me. Literally, I want to create a pyro (never did in any of souls games) and do a single player run on this.

Can I play the vanilla Elden Ring even tho I have the Seamless Coop version installed on my folder?

They use different exe but Im afraid that since my folder files aren't the original ones I have a chance to getting banned from FROMSOFTWARE servers?

I tried googling for this but I only get results on save transfer and I dont want to transfer any save. My coop toon will stay coop only, I dont mind.

Thanks in advance guys

[Born To Noot]

Seamless coop has been made to be completely separate from the main game. It does not modify the vanilla game files.
If you just installed it normally, and didn't mess up with your game files or the different savefiles, it should be fine. They have a different file extension.

The mistake to avoid is to take your seamless coop savefile and put it in the vanilla game.

Just launch the game normally on steam to play vanilla

[Friends with Benedicts]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Born To Noot:

Seamless coop has been made to be completely separate from the main game. It does not modify the vanilla game files.
If you just installed it normally, and didn't mess up with your game files or the different savefiles, it should be fine. They have a different file extension.

The mistake to avoid is to take your seamless coop savefile and put it in the vanilla game.

Just launch the game normally on steam to play vanilla

I read about that and I have zero intention to actually transfer such saves.

Thank you so much for your reply I'll mark it as solved.

Wont test it today Im tired af, but might on the weekend.

[Shyney]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Friends with Benedicts:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Born To Noot:

Seamless coop has been made to be completely separate from the main game. It does not modify the vanilla game files.
If you just installed it normally, and didn't mess up with your game files or the different savefiles, it should be fine. They have a different file extension.

The mistake to avoid is to take your seamless coop savefile and put it in the vanilla game.

Just launch the game normally on steam to play vanilla

I read about that and I have zero intention to actually transfer such saves.

Thank you so much for your reply I'll mark it as solved.

Wont test it today Im tired af, but might on the weekend.

Did you play vanilla with leaving the seamless coop files inside the game folder? Can you confirm that this is not going to get you banned? Currently Im always moving the mod files to a backup folder outside of the game folder every time I want to play vanilla but its a hassle and I would rather just launch the vanilla and coop version seamlessly :D

[Friends with Benedicts]

Yep! I played vanilla and seamless together. Although I havent joined a single pvp or online match of any sort while playing vanilla (since I played very very little). But Id feel very safe, I googled many people and found no claims of someone being banned for seamless co op!

[Friends with Benedicts]

The way it works is that when you join fromsoft servers, you are never doing so by using seamless coop. They made it so it is impossible to do both.

[nfinite.recursion]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Shyney:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Friends with Benedicts:

I read about that and I have zero intention to actually transfer such saves.

Thank you so much for your reply I'll mark it as solved.

Wont test it today Im tired af, but might on the weekend.

Did you play vanilla with leaving the seamless coop files inside the game folder? Can you confirm that this is not going to get you banned? Currently Im always moving the mod files to a backup folder outside of the game folder every time I want to play vanilla but its a hassle and I would rather just launch the vanilla and coop version seamlessly :D

The only files you need to worry about are external .dll files added to the same folder as eldenring.exe because .dll files automatically load which trips EAC. AFAIK, Seamless Coop has its own executable file (doesn't automatically load) and a folder where its resource files are kept (also doesn't automatically load).