Low Spec Network Gaming

[MattO]

G'day all,

I have just set up a network at home and I would like to test its gaming capabilities.

I have 2 system on the network:
PC 1: Athlon 2500
PC2: PII 350

Can anyone recommend some free network games which will run well on both of these systems, I know they wont be at the cutting edge of graphics but as long as they play well I wont mind.

thanks for any info

[Soulhunter]

Somewhere I read that id software released Quake1 and Quake2 under GNU-GPL...


Bye

[Nic]

AFAIK: The code was released under GPL + LGPL, but not the data files needed to play the game (levels, textures, etc)

@MattO: http://www.the-underdogs.org/ has lots of old games, some with ropey multiplayer support ;)

With the P2, get the cheapest 3d card you can, buy half-life then install counter-strike (probably better to look for the pre-steam versions...we used to play it on a LAN when I was at Uni and our machines were only 400mhz)

But there are better forums than this for this kind of info,
-Nic

[MattO]

Thanks I'll check it out.

> But there are better forums than this for this kind of info
nic, I know but I was here so I thought I'd ask ;)

[killingspree]

jup, i can second that, with a used graphics card in the range of a TNT card, counterstrike will run just fine on the PII 350. had one myself, played A LOT!

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[Mug Funky]

i had a buttload of fun with these on my crappy home network years ago (a p-120, a p-100 laptop, and a celeron 433 with 8mbps coax network):

- Doom
- Duke Nukem 3d
- Quake (made custom levels with a 3dsmax plugin)
- carmageddon (ran choppy as hell on the laptop)

had not so much fun with these (cause i kept getting my bollocks kicked):

- warcraft 2
- C&C Red Alert

i'm sure you can pick up quake cheap as hell in a bargain bin.

[jernst]

Try this game (fps) had a lot of fun with it. I have a fast system but I get thousand of fps so it should be very fast on your system too:

http://www.cubeengine.com/


Available on win32 and linux.
Licence: gpl
Multiplayer and single player mode.