rec.autos.simulators

by **Jarrod A. Smit** » Thu, 13 Nov 1997 04:00:00

> Whats the score with this F1 Simulation from UBI, on the web site it says
> it supports 4 players over network. In the advertising in PCZone (UK) it
> claims 8.

> 8 is good news. I cannot understand why most of the latest releases only
> support 4 players. Is it a limitation of Directplay or what ??
> Where do we stand with Quake2? being a Win95 only release, I assume it
> will have the same limitation.

Note that the multiplayer support is only supported via a LAN. FIA was paranoid
about the internet and stipulated in Ubi's license that no internet multiplayer
could be included in the game. I suppose it may work via Kali or similar,
though.

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by **Redr** » Fri, 14 Nov 1997 04:00:00

>On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 13:09:38 +0000, Julian Anderson

>>8 is good news. I cannot understand why most of the latest releases only
>>support 4 players. Is it a limitation of Directplay or what ??
>>Where do we stand with Quake2? being a Win95 only release, I assume it
>>will have the same limitation.

>QuakeWorld (a Win95 application) already supports 32, and Quake2 is
>rumoured to support 200 (you'd need some stonking server though). I
>believe it's more to do with communication issues or game architecture
>than OS limitations.

Quake server running on Linux box is apparently smoother than Quake
server running on Win95.

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