Here is some general info about the LAN party.
Our mission is to game for about 36 hours straight, without sleeping.
Sissies can always go home to get a nap. (just joking ;-)) What do I have to bring along? ? :
Extra info :
I would like to close the place down at 18:00h on Sundays. If you made any mess (empty bags of chips, etc), please dump it in the trashcans which will be in the room. (please sort your stuff... cans in blue bag, paper in grey bag, etc) There's are toilets right next to the room. For those of you who sweat like pigs and smell like shit after 2 hours of gaming, please bring along some deodorant and don't make your neighbour suffocate. ;-) hehe. Make sure your computer is in good shape. It would be quite sad if you top-notch Pentium3-500MHz is totally beaten to bits by a mere P2-266MHz when it comes to performance. (Hi Igor ;-) - This will stay in this info-section till the end of times. hehe ) Throw away all the junk that you don't need and which only slow down your system. (i'm thinking about motherboard-temp-sensors, resident software like virusscanners, etc) For example, on my system, there are only 2 (two) icons in my system-tray (next to the time-clock). 1 to adjust my sound and 1 to adjust my resolution/refresh. I sometimes feel that some people try to impress other by having loads of icons in their systemtray. People who don't know a lot aobut this stuff, should look around for new drivers of their videocard on the internet. New BIOS-updates for video and mainboard. And install DirectX 8.1 This will already improve most of the performance issues together with the removal of unnessecary junk. Ideal is to perform a complete new install of Windblows a couple of days before the LAN-party (after formatting your HD) with the new drivers+bios updates Then you'll have a very clean system. This can be acheived very quick and handy by the use of "Norton Ghost". In this way, you can adjust your computer so it performs excellent for LAN parties and make a ghost-image of your start-up drive. If you arrive at the LAN, you only have to make a Ghost of your current system and safe this. Then you can install the LAN-Party ghost image and you have a 101% clean fast gaming system. When the LAN is over, you can overwrite your LAN system with the Ghost-image which you saved in the beginning. |