davebert
Member
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Hi guys,
  My first post and I am fairly new at gaming. I bought 3 copies of BF2 and installed them to 3 pc's on my LAN. One is for my father in law on the new pc I built him that he will take back home after the holidays. I patched them all to v1.5 and they all seem to be working fine. If we play on the LAN with only 3 people max would using one pc as the server be fine or should I set up the dedicated server on a spare pc that runs Vista 32 bit with 4 gigs and a Core 2 duo?

Last edited by davebert (2009-12-16 07:15:20)

Lucien
Fantasma Parastasie
+1,451|6906
I run a BF2 server from my 1.4ghz single core CPU laptop and it works just fine. Just host it on one of the game PCs, as long as everything connects smoothly it will be fine.
https://i.imgur.com/HTmoH.jpg
globefish23
sophisticated slacker
+334|6577|Graz, Austria
Dedicated server is always better of course, but recent computers should be good enough for running both the server and client.
After all, a 4th person could be playing on the dedicated server.

The biggest issues with BF2 are ping/lag/hitbox related anyway, which doesn't matter in a LAN.
davebert
Member
+1|5501
Ok great. I will try the it the easy way first. I have a 9550 but am on XP Pro 32 bit with 4 gb ram so that should work.

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