System Requirements for Dom III

DominionsFan · #1 August 25th, 2006, 11:53 AM

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tibbs said:
Do you think I can run a DomIII server on a 200mhz pent machine with 256 MB RAM?

I was thinking of putting UBUNTU server on the machine for the OS though I have no experience with Linux yet.

Thanks,
Chris

ouch. what an old comp. I guess hosting a TCP/IP with 4-8 players wouldnt work on that very well...

Oh btw..Doms 3. requires a good internet connection to host TCP/IP games? Because my main comp is connected with a 6mbit dsl line, but it can go up to 24 mbit, since its not "locked"...I could run a mmorpg server on that even...however my laptop only got a 512k line. The laptop's hardware is pretty decent too, so it cant be a problem, only the slow 512k line I guess.
So my question is...the 512k line is good enough to host TCP/IP for 8+ players, or I will have to use my main comp for it?

tibbs · #2 August 25th, 2006, 06:26 PM

Yeah, it is old. And I lugged it and the LCD monitor all the way from Japan from my wife's parent's house. After all the work of carrying it here I have to use it for something. So you think it would only work as a play by mail server then? I am planning on running it as a text only server so I'm hoping it can host decent sized games and I was hoping tcp/ip would work as I do have a fast network connection.

I would be surprised if your 512kb connection couldn't handle an 8 player game. I wouldn't think this game would be that bandwith intensive.

quantum_mechani · #3 August 25th, 2006, 08:12 PM

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DominionsFAN said:
So my question is...the 512k line is good enough to host TCP/IP for 8+ players, or I will have to use my main comp for it?

People with even Dial-up connections play and host dominions all the time.

DominionsFan · #4 August 26th, 2006, 06:33 AM

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quantum_mechani said:

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DominionsFAN said:
So my question is...the 512k line is good enough to host TCP/IP for 8+ players, or I will have to use my main comp for it?

People with even Dial-up connections play and host dominions all the time.

Oh nice, so then my laptop will be good for hosting even. I was always hosting the Doms 2. games from my main comp, so I didnt knew that even my 512k laptop could work very well to host the games.

Gandalf Parker · #5 August 26th, 2006, 11:30 AM

Dom3 requires a good connection (stable, no burps) but it doesnt have to be a fat one (many many megs). The only lag that you are likely to feel involves the fact that it can play on much larger maps and you dont have to have the map to join the game. If you dont have the map then it sends you the image (not the .map text file, just the tga or rgb graphic part). With really giant maps that can be slow for some people. But the rest of the game runs like a champ once you get that image.

Of course agreeing on a map ahead of time and downloading it takes are of that problem for dialup people. But its also alot of fun to play on a map that was randomly generated for the game and nobody has played it.

Gandalf Parker

DominionsFan · #6 August 26th, 2006, 05:58 PM

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Gandalf Parker said:
Dom3 requires a good connection (stable, no burps) but it doesnt have to be a fat one (many many megs). The only lag that you are likely to feel involves the fact that it can play on much larger maps and you dont have to have the map to join the game. If you dont have the map then it sends you the image (not the .map text file, just the tga or rgb graphic part). With really giant maps that can be slow for some people. But the rest of the game runs like a champ once you get that image.

Of course agreeing on a map ahead of time and downloading it takes are of that problem for dialup people. But its also alot of fun to play on a map that was randomly generated for the game and nobody has played it.

Gandalf Parker

Well DSL is the best to host games, its absolutely stable, and the latency is excellent, much better then cable for example.
I always prefer smaller maps for TCP/IP games, because medium - large maps are requiring huge amount of time.
Btw Gandalf, I hope that you can join to some TCP/IP games.

Well the time difference is kinda makes it hard, but on weekends we can do it somehow I guess.

Gandalf Parker · #7 August 27th, 2006, 02:26 PM

Why? So you can have more sword fodder?

Im not much of an opponent.

But I will be running games on my servers. Starting slow at first since I dont want to promise more than they can keep up with without hurting their other purposes.

game.dominions.com will be handling small games. At the moment the settings are 640x480 and 30 province maps that are generated fresh for each game. Suitable for a 2 or 3 player blitz.

I also have an ai_blitz and chaos_blitz for variations later on. The ai one switches to 50 provinces and adds 3 AI's. The chaos one sprinkles random monsters all over the maps.

www.Dom3Minions.com is the better server and will be running large special games with a web directory for the game. Probably to start out it will be just a game for the first age that will autostart as soon as the slots are filled. (no pre-registering so dont bother)

DominionsFan · #8 August 27th, 2006, 04:50 PM

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Gandalf Parker said:
Why? So you can have more sword fodder?

Im not much of an opponent.

But I will be running games on my servers. Starting slow at first since I dont want to promise more than they can keep up with without hurting their other purposes.

game.dominions.com will be handling small games. At the moment the settings are 640x480 and 30 province maps that are generated fresh for each game. Suitable for a 2 or 3 player blitz.

I also have an ai_blitz and chaos_blitz for variations later on. The ai one switches to 50 provinces and adds 3 AI's. The chaos one sprinkles random monsters all over the maps.

www.Dom3Minions.com is the better server and will be running large special games with a web directory for the game. Probably to start out it will be just a game for the first age that will autostart as soon as the slots are filled. (no pre-registering so dont bother)

Gandalf but those will be PBEM servers only, am I correct?