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Old 02-23-2003, 04:17 AM
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i heard a few things about it and have experienced it also.

1st problem was win98 to win98 would only host one way :/
it would hand on 'loading'. so we just had to have one guy hosting.


recently we got a 4 way lan in my house (24/7 now :P)
XP home - XP home - XP home - XP home

ok we can play but it's not all smooth going. for some weird reason it can take a few minutes for the map to load from the server even on a 100MB LAN! we noticed something:

4 comps:

2GHz AMD
1.7 GHz Pentium Laptop
1.4 GHz AMD (me )
600 MHz P3


host is 2GHz AMD, starts server
everyone joins as soon as it is up
1.7 GHz is in the game after 20 secs later
1.4 Ghz is in the game after 3 or 4 mins later
600 MHz is in the game 5 or 6 mins later

this happens every singe time. i fail to believe that system spec makes that much difference but there is no other explination.

the 600 MHz upgraded to 2.1GHz and then repeatedley joined the game first.

then one day i joined a game mid way through and guess what? got in within a few seconds, extremley fast loading etc. so i quit and tried again and the same thing happened!

i cant explain this but all i know is that at the start if everyone tries to load things go hella slow.


ok i've not helped u out at all here :/
here is my check list for LAN gaming


+ same subnet
+ diff ip
+ file sharing enabled
+ ipx installed
+ same work group - somehting we forgot every time we set up hehehe
+ firewall settings to give full access to ur LAN ip's

u know what ur doing but hey it never hurts to check, i know lol!

it's unlikely that Nova can offer any useful info on this although i have heard positive things about thieir support recentley. if u could find more instances of this same problem, copy the info and send em an email. the more probs the better.


TFD and LW funnily enough are the least problomatic games we have played on LAN. i have the most probs cause i have 2 NICs, i think some games try to use the iNet IP instead of my LAN one. Ghost recon lets u choose ur card which is a great feature. i have failed to get Sturmovik and Battlefield to work, all the other comps can play but not me
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