diff --git a/build/jenkins/pipelines/windows.Jenkinsfile b/build/jenkins/pipelines/windows.Jenkinsfile
index c001798c5d..a321d52b01 100644
--- a/build/jenkins/pipelines/windows.Jenkinsfile
+++ b/build/jenkins/pipelines/windows.Jenkinsfile
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 // This pipeline builds the game on Windows (which uses the MSVC 15.0 compiler from Visual Studio 2017) and runs tests.
 
 def visualStudioPath = "\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2017\\Community\\MSBuild\\15.0\\Bin\\MSBuild.exe\""
-def buildOptions = "/p:PlatformToolset=v141_xp /p:XPDeprecationWarning=false /t:pyrogenesis /t:AtlasUI /t:test /nologo -clp:NoSummary"
+def buildOptions = "/p:PlatformToolset=v141_xp /p:XPDeprecationWarning=false /t:pyrogenesis /t:AtlasUI /t:test /m:2 /nologo -clp:NoSummary"
 
 pipeline {
 	// Stop previous build in pull requests, but not in branches
diff --git a/build/premake/premake5.lua b/build/premake/premake5.lua
index ab7ffefd6f..37f8d31b6f 100644
--- a/build/premake/premake5.lua
+++ b/build/premake/premake5.lua
@@ -418,6 +418,8 @@ function project_create(project_name, target_type)
 
 	filter "action:vs*"
 		buildoptions "/utf-8"
+		-- disable LNK4221 warning, to avoid spending energy ordering projects in linker invocations
+		linkoptions "/ignore:4221"
 	filter {}
 
 	project_set_target(project_name)