Ironworks Gaming Forum - View Single Post - Mper and dial-up no problem!

SpiritWarrior · 02-01-2003, 04:42 PM

Ok so on the manual it basically says that this game is not even worth playing online with a dial-up connection (maximum 2 players -why bother?). I read this and thought 'damn, I need to sort out DSL for myself' and left it at that.

However just yesterday out of curiousity I logged unto gamespy and into the NWN's servers, found a PVP arena module and entered.
To my disbelief it worked great. The game ran just as it does offline, and at many times there were about 7/8 players in the same room. No major lag, no stuttering - nothing! 'How weird' I thought and so tried another mod called 'Awesomeville' which was basically a lighthearted mod with some action adventures,pvp and rping tied into it (although most of the players were ridiculously powerful and high leveled) but here too it worked great.

Yes there was some occasional lag during high multiple video-taxing spells but this is not new as my video card aint the best and does this offline too. I'm wondering has it something to do with Directx 9...if you read the microsoft release notes they strongly recommend upgrading to directx9 as it fully supports 'mass multiplaying' and it 'increases game performance online'.
The only thing is I thought Directx has nothing to do with NWN's as this game is OpenGL...watcha think?

[ 02-01-2003, 04:50 PM: Message edited by: SpiritWarrior ]

02-01-2003, 04:42 PM	#1
SpiritWarrior Jack Burton Join Date: May 31, 2002 Location: Ireland Posts: 5,854	Ok so on the manual it basically says that this game is not even worth playing online with a dial-up connection (maximum 2 players -why bother?). I read this and thought 'damn, I need to sort out DSL for myself' and left it at that. However just yesterday out of curiousity I logged unto gamespy and into the NWN's servers, found a PVP arena module and entered. To my disbelief it worked great. The game ran just as it does offline, and at many times there were about 7/8 players in the same room. No major lag, no stuttering - nothing! 'How weird' I thought and so tried another mod called 'Awesomeville' which was basically a lighthearted mod with some action adventures,pvp and rping tied into it (although most of the players were ridiculously powerful and high leveled) but here too it worked great. Yes there was some occasional lag during high multiple video-taxing spells but this is not new as my video card aint the best and does this offline too. I'm wondering has it something to do with Directx 9...if you read the microsoft release notes they strongly recommend upgrading to directx9 as it fully supports 'mass multiplaying' and it 'increases game performance online'. The only thing is I thought Directx has nothing to do with NWN's as this game is OpenGL...watcha think? [ 02-01-2003, 04:50 PM: Message edited by: SpiritWarrior ] __________________ Still I feel like a child when I look at the moon, maybe I grew up a little too soon...