building a sever

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:49 pm

i want to build a sever out of an old computer for my freind its going to be a sever for moh spear head what sofware do i need and how should i set it up.

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:55 pm

here

jk

here:
http://www.pcmech.com/byos/

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:58 pm

This will be for a LAN, I'm assuming, since you have dialup. You should just be able to download a program for it, or use the game to host a game.

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:04 pm

ok i will check the links thanks.

vskid: no it going to be online my freind has broadband and and he is going to have it in his house.

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:10 pm

ahhhhhhhhhh very funny

the batterys are low in my key board.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:25 pm

How old is this old computer? And for a game with that low of specs, I don't think you'd need a server as good as the one in ganonbanned's link.

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:29 pm

it a p1 i know that that probly wont run it but if it doesnt can i soft mod an xbox to be the sever.

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:39 pm

can i use windows 95 to be the sever.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:47 pm

This site has a couple dedicated server programs, one might work on 95.

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:50 pm

Use friggin QUESTION MARKS when you ask questions!!

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Sorry, had to get that off my back. carry on

Post by **Skyone** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:05 pm

dragon wrote:the batterys are low in my key board.

Seriously, what type of excuse is that?

Win95 will probably not run as a server.

Rekarp · Post by **Rekarp** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:16 pm

I ran a bf42 server once with a AMD Althon 2500+ and a gig of ram. It used WinXP tho and it did a nice job intill you got over 12 players but I blame my bandwidth for that.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:04 am

dragon wrote:can i use windows 95 to be the sever.

No. 95, 98 and ME both never had a built in networking and so unless you want to waste good ram having a network program installed and running I would suggest looking at a networking OS. If it needs to be Windows the lowest I would say go is NT 4.0, though 2000 would be even better.