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Lan Party Question

Shoe-EaterShoe-Eater Registered User regular
edited July 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
Hey Guys, Im thinking of hosting an old school lan party.

havent done this in ages.

has anyone had any success using Vista and or Windows 7 for a lan party or should request that everyone show up with Windows XP installed?

In thinking of running old games like:

Starcraft
Battlefield 1942
others in the same era

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  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited July 2009
    I think the only real problem you might run into is those games possibly not being Vista compatible.

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  • Shoe-EaterShoe-Eater Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    You don't think there will be any problems with the network connection or computers not being abel to find each other with a vista/windows 7 and XP

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  • ChubblyChubbly Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Disclaimer: This is my experience with 7 and is probably worse than most.

    I have found networking in Windows 7 an absolute nightmare. Configuring the network is no longer just a setting your IP in the network adapter properties, it is a maze of menu's and frustrating user issues. Again, this might just be my bad luck but worth considering.

    Note though: I had no trouble with the 7 -> XP connection but people connecting the other way ran into a range of issues with permissions and logins.

    One man's opinion for your consideration.

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  • theSquidtheSquid Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    XP is frankly the easiest of the Windows family >= XP to configure firewall-wise, just be prepared for a lot of firewall related BS. Specially when people have custom firewall software.

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  • RookRook Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Vista, super easy to network, can't imagine windows 7 is too different.

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  • SporkAndrewSporkAndrew Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2009
    Shoe-Eater wrote: »
    You don't think there will be any problems with the network connection or computers not being abel to find each other with a vista/windows 7 and XP

    I just recently (3 weeks ago) was at a small LAN party with my friends and we had 5 Vista machines, 2 XP boxes and a W7 box. We set them all into the same IP range (192.168.1.2-10) and subnet (255.0) and had no problems. All we had to do was turn off password protected sharing to allow file sharing and for every game that we loaded we had to make sure to alt-tab out to allow it through the firewall.

    And even then afterwards I found out that some people had just left their computers DHCP'd and had just grabbed an IP from the switch, and two were on completely different workgroups. It's a doddle basically.

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Workgroup membership doesn't affect TCP/IP multiplayer games. The only thing that matters is being in the same subnet and making sure your firewalls are correctly configured or off.

    Also, this rarely applies, but for some of the older games that use IPX as the LAN protocol, I've never been able to get IPX/SPX working on Windows Vista.

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  • CasualCasual Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Flap Flap Flap Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Shoe-Eater wrote: »
    Hey Guys, Im thinking of hosting an old school lan party.

    havent done this in ages.

    has anyone had any success using Vista and or Windows 7 for a lan party or should request that everyone show up with Windows XP installed?

    In thinking of running old games like:

    Starcraft
    Battlefield 1942
    others in the same era

    I had a LAN party recently where there was a couple of people running vista one with XP and one with windows 7. It all worked fine.

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  • ChalkbotChalkbot Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Just echoing I hosted a LAN party (8 people) and I have a Vista machine. There were no problems networking. We even played some older games like Starcraft.

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  • tsmvengytsmvengy Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    For starcraft you will have to have the latest patch that includes UDP network support. IPX networking does not work on Vista.

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