Lan Party Server Help Needed

[danzig]

Some friends and I are getting ready to have our first "larger" scale lan party (about 32 people) . I was wandering if it possible(or feasible) to use one server for Q3 AND UT at the same time. The server is my Win 2K Pro , FCPGA 566@852 , 256 meg PC 133 machine . Thanks

 

[Wizkid]

I wouldn't recommend it for maximum performance, but it may be good enough... if that is all you can get for servers, then it will be good enough to have a good time

 

[danzig]

I do have an extra laptop we will not be using to play on - (cough,cough) Compaq Prettysario Cyrix 200 Media GX

 

[cot]

The cyrix may do better than you think.

The integer unit is reasonably fast, it's the floating point unit that is wimpy

A lot of the FPU burden of 3D games is that of the renderer, which is not relevant for a dedicated server. I'm not sure just how much FPU use is done by the dedicated server, but I'm pretty sure it's way less.

I remember someone I know running an 8 person Q2 server on a P60 or somthing similar - worked fine.

So why not load up Q3, start a DEDICATED server, run some bots, and join on a networked client machine.

It would actually do better with real people since the bot AI wouldnt have to run.

cot

 

[danzig]

I think I will try the laptop that could . It's cheaper than building something else . Thanks dudez

 

[1KrazyFool]

Just use the one machine. Make it easy on yourself. That CPU can handle both fine. I run two UT servers on one box just fine. A celeron 400 no less. Don't kid yourself trying to run a server off of a laptop. Go with one easy to admin machine.