[GLLUG] Laurel Park Room

[Caleb Cushing]

I think I'm going to now really try to get us a game playing box for our
open source show off... I'll ask cedega for a license for this purpose, I
don't want to pay them... But I have no problems giving them free
advertising. My machine can work but I really need an nVidia video card,
prefferable a much newer one than my ATI Does anyone have one they could
lend for the purpose of this box? or have an Idea of how we could acquire
one? just basing what I want on price... I'm looking for something that
would run retail of $200 because we need the box to keep up... the rest of
my specs are up to spar but my videocard is ancient. It'll run modern games
but not well all the time. If it can run them well it can'r run them pretty.

If you guys don't like the idea of trying to do this let me know.

On 3/7/06, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ever hear of a patch? or a mod? they may also want to connect to play on
> an online server, half-life 2 requires steam authentication from there
> internet servers to play (there is a legit way around it but I wouldn't
> expect people to have it done, and it requires internet to do) they wouldn't
> need access to our subnet. but trust me they'll want the internet, and
> they'll need it open... because games can use all sorts of various crazy
> ports... If they have to run it through the same internet line as us they
> may hog it, we still might want to consider installing a box as a router
> that can handle connection throttling that way no one person can hog the
> line. LAN parties are fun but setting them up can be a pain, I used to go to
> one that occurred once a term at baker and it always took us two hours to
> get people in there and up for gaming, because people would come in... need
> to install the game we were playing, then they would have to get a patch, if
> we were playing with mods or custom maps, they needed to get those...
>
> I remember we were playing counterstrike source (which will most
> definitely be there) but we were using a hack. well i owned it legally but I
> was 1 of 2 of maybe 30, and I had to get the crack because the legal version
> didn't work with the crack. We can also expect a very large increase of
> piracy if the gamer's are in the same room...
>
>
> On 3/7/06, Charles Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Why do gamers need access to our network?  Let them set up their own and
> > we won't have to worry about their traffic.  They don't need internet
> > access for LAN parties.
> >
> >                                 Chick
> >
> >
> > Caleb Cushing wrote:
> > > you can expect them to bring fairly powerful gaming machines. you can
> > > also expect that our problems have just doubled... perhaps we should
> > > try to get Tom to one of our meetings if feasibly possible. We need
> > to > take his network design into account with ours, because more than
> > > likely they'll end up using more external bandwidth than us. They'll
> > > use it for things other than simple web browsing.
> >
> >
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