Multiplayer games on old computers

Malentor · **Joined:** Thu Apr 21, 2011 2:15 pm **Posts:** 45

jet800 wrote:

GeForce2 Mx 400 was a pretty good video for it's time.

I had one of those, iirc.

Gez · **Joined:** Fri Apr 15, 2011 2:54 pm **Posts:** 188

greenlight wrote:

Well I tired DooM, but it runs only at about 10-20 fps.

What Doom? The original game in DOSBox? Outside of DOSBox? A port? If a port, which? Was it a software one or OpenGL? Capped or uncapped? I'd recommend you try at least PrBoom+ and ZDoom for software renderers, GLBoom+ and GZDoom for OpenGL.

greenlight · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2012 4:43 am

I tried the shareware version without any emulation (winXP can run it natively). When facing a wall it ran smoothly, but when looking at many objects or an explosion the frames dropped to 5-10.

My results so far: On the computers in the other room (geforce 6100 nforce 405 onboard chips), which had the Nvidia drivers installed open arena ran perfectly at 90 fps (with slight drops down to 50). But as I tested this during a lesson, I couldn't do a proper benchmark :roll:

I think the geforce2 mx 400 are not quite as good, but still should be able to run openarena (at least on low settings).

Aliotroph? · **Joined:** Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:49 pm **Posts:** 205

Any computer that can run XP should be able to run Doom at max framerate (35 fps) all the time. That said, if XP can run it with the sound working then MS has added some sort of compatibility layer and that could be very poorly implemented.

Anyway, playing network games with vanilla copies of Doom frustrating and primitive. You'd definitely want a port that's designed for it. Everyone else's recommendations would be better than mine. I never play DM games anymore.

greenlight · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 1:35 pm

As openarena runs sucessfully on the systems (at least with the correct drivers) there is no need to play doom online. I think OA will do the job for a while, maybe I find some other games that can run on the systems with the onboard geforce6100 chipset (it supports directx 9.0c).

Bloodshot · **Joined:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 12:44 pm **Posts:** 72

Get Quake 1 and Winquake. It's software, so drivers probably won't be an issue, and it supports lan play for up to 16 players if you set it up right.

Great fun.

I think it requires like a 4 or 8 mb video card, so you're good on that xD

Also Tribes 1 and Tribes 2 are both freeware

PlanesWalker1337 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:31 am

let's see quake live is pretty good and doom is abandon ware so you go to abandon ware you can get it free and back in my day we had doom on our computers. :lol:

Aliotroph? · **Joined:** Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:49 pm **Posts:** 205

Doom is most certainly not abandonware. You can buy it on Steam.

Gez · **Joined:** Fri Apr 15, 2011 2:54 pm **Posts:** 188

PlanesWalker1337 wrote:

doom is abandon ware so you go to abandon ware you can get it free

Abandonware (n.): words used by entitled kids who want to download free copies of games without paying for them because they are old. To convince themselves they aren't doing anything illegal or immoral, they claim that the game is "abandoned", which means that it is no longer available from official channels because its creators and publishers abandoned it.

Oh, look, here is Id Software's official website!

Soooooo abandoned. Why, everyone knows that "direct links to buy it from three different sellers right here on the front page of the creator's site" is exactly the definition of "abandoned"!

jet800 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:03 am

FYI, nothing about kids related to abandonware:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware

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