speed up a lan game. Since this morning I've three computyers in a small lan
(PII400 64MB Voodoo2, P233MMX 64 MB Voodoo2 and a PII233 64 MB notebook).
I wonder whether making the laptop a dedicated server would increase the
performance, ok there's no accelarator onboard but since no racin would be
done on the computer I imagine that it would be better. I am not yet able to
test the performance difference, could anybody make any predictions?
I have two PCs (PII450 and PII300) connected over Fast Ethernet. I wanted
to see if I could get higher framerates on the 450 by joining a race hosted
on the PII300 (versus driving offline on the 450).
On the PII300, I reduced the 3Dfx graphical options to the absolute minimum,
set the minimum # sounds, and left the view set to the pit lane. The PII300
was a dedicated server, only used for hosting.
I only tried this briefly and didn't notice any real framerate difference.
However, I could only see a few cars ahead of me on the grid. I think this
is because my core.ini settings on both PCs are set for racing (joining and
hosting) over the internet (VROC). For a local LAN, I should probably
increase the server packet sizes to view more cars around me, from the
default of:
net_lan_server_send_size = 84 ; Server packet freq on LAN
For more information on core.ini settings, see Bart Westra's site at
http://people.a2000.nl/bcwes/gplol.htm#band
Brian
>speed up a lan game. Since this morning I've three computyers in a small lan
>(PII400 64MB Voodoo2, P233MMX 64 MB Voodoo2 and a PII233 64 MB notebook).
>I wonder whether making the laptop a dedicated server would increase the
>performance, ok there's no accelarator onboard but since no racin would be
>done on the computer I imagine that it would be better. I am not yet able to
>test the performance difference, could anybody make any predictions?
