S2: Net play via KALI report.

Try Kahn and see if it works better.

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> After about a week of lurking on KALI, I finally found someone to play > Screamer II with. For the uninitiated, S2 is a rally-car game that > supports 4-player IPX. Crashwise, it is unrealistic as you can smash > into anything and just bounce back into the action, but otherwise > (physics, gearchanges, graphics) it is a sim. Something of a hybrid, I > guess. > We got it to work, but it was messy. Best we could manage over a 28.8 > link (p133 64meg/cyr166+ 32meg) was a low-res 256-color low-detail game > at about 1-3 fps. It was vile. My normal time on the England track is > about 3:45, this game it was 4:54. Our pings were in the 400 range. > So to answer the question I posted last week, yes, SII *works* with > KALI, but not well enough to be worth playing. > I've got 20 bucks in my pocket burning to pay for whichever service > supports S2. :)

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After about a week of lurking on KALI, I finally found someone to play Screamer II with. For the uninitiated, S2 is a rally-car game that supports 4-player IPX. Crashwise, it is unrealistic as you can smash into anything and just bounce back into the action, but otherwise (physics, gearchanges, graphics) it is a sim. Something of a hybrid, I guess. We got it to work, but it was messy. Best we could manage over a 28.8 link (p133 64meg/cyr166+ 32meg) was a low-res 256-color low-detail game at about 1-3 fps. It was vile. My normal time on the England track is about 3:45, this game it was 4:54. Our pings were in the 400 range. So to answer the question I posted last week, yes, SII *works* with KALI, but not well enough to be worth playing. I've got 20 bucks in my pocket burning to pay for whichever service supports S2. :)

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> Try Kahn and see if it works better. > > After about a week of lurking on KALI, I finally found someone to play > > Screamer II with. For the uninitiated, S2 is a rally-car game that > > supports 4-player IPX. Crashwise, it is unrealistic as you can smash > > into anything and just bounce back into the action, but otherwise > > (physics, gearchanges, graphics) it is a sim. Something of a hybrid, I > > guess. > > We got it to work, but it was messy. Best we could manage over a 28.8 > > link (p133 64meg/cyr166+ 32meg) was a low-res 256-color low-detail game > > at about 1-3 fps. It was vile. My normal time on the England track is > > about 3:45, this game it was 4:54. Our pings were in the 400 range. > > So to answer the question I posted last week, yes, SII *works* with > > KALI, but not well enough to be worth playing. > > I've got 20 bucks in my pocket burning to pay for whichever service > > supports S2. :) > -- > -^Dragon^ on Kahn > Get Kahn at http://stargatenetworks.com/

A friend and I tried Screamer2 on Kahn last night. We had good ping times consistently less than 300ms. Game play was very much as Lars described it: vile. Apparently, the game is sending a lot more than just car positions with each packet. Along the same lines, N2 is also less than perfect. Most of the time, things are ok, but as the cars approach each other, the warping gets unbearable. We are racing only two cars, no AI and latency is being reported in the .13 - .16 range. Question: do the modem setup strings in the Win95 dialer make any difference? Modem init strings in the NASCAR games are critical for acceptable performance via modem play. Are there optimum settings for connection to Kahn as well? Also, has anybody determined what the best "Advanced Settings" in the Kahn Control Center are? At least LinksLS works good! FORE!!! Patrick. ================================================= ===--- Patrick O'Neal (PatrickO on Hawaii) ---=== ===------- Shamrock Racing Enterprises -------=== ===-- (Remove NOSPAM from my reply address) --=== =================================================

CON (Kahn) suX.. Kali r00lZ

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> Try Kahn and see if it works better. > > After about a week of lurking on KALI, I finally found someone to play > > Screamer II with. For the uninitiated, S2 is a rally-car game that > > supports 4-player IPX. Crashwise, it is unrealistic as you can smash > > into anything and just bounce back into the action, but otherwise > > (physics, gearchanges, graphics) it is a sim. Something of a hybrid, I > > guess. > > We got it to work, but it was messy. Best we could manage over a 28.8 > > link (p133 64meg/cyr166+ 32meg) was a low-res 256-color low-detail game > > at about 1-3 fps. It was vile. My normal time on the England track is > > about 3:45, this game it was 4:54. Our pings were in the 400 range. > > So to answer the question I posted last week, yes, SII *works* with > > KALI, but not well enough to be worth playing. > > I've got 20 bucks in my pocket burning to pay for whichever service > > supports S2. :) > -- > -^Dragon^ on Kahn > Get Kahn at http://stargatenetworks.com/