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Elara
09-06-2007, 07:06 PM
I posted this in another place as well...

Despite the issues reported about DL, I like the game overall...

I have only played THROUGH Fargrove so far (Solo), but want to try multi-player. I'm an old hand at RPG - Started with D&D in the 1970's... and I'm a network engineer for work, so I'm going to try to make a DEDICATED Dungeon lords server, that will run on it's own system. I had no trouble running DL/CE on a dual 866MHZ PIII system with FX5700 Nvidia. I have not had any major issues with the CE version. - BUT I run a *VERY* stripped Win2K OS that only reuires 60MB ram to boot in, so my other 2.6GHZ system blows most new computers away for playable game speed. I suggest most people make a dual boot system with 2 O/S installs - 1 for "stuff" and 1 for games. That way you can minimize the amount of junk running in Memory.

*ALSO* HUGE improvement to run 2 hard drives- and partition them. you can gain 40-150% HDD access increase by having Windows on one drive and Games on another. The smaller the drive paritions, the faster the game will run. (Applies mainly to the first partition you make)

I have 1 "REAL" copy and 3 I bought at walmart last week for $9 to use as LAN keys. I'm going to try one of them to see if the code is good or not.

I have a UT2004 server now, so I am familiar with hosting games. I'll let you know what success I have with the "dedicated server" idea. Let me know if any are interested in this project...??

-Bunny
chamr
09-14-2007, 08:55 PM
I'd be interested. My gaming group still picks this one up now and then, but only when there's less than 4 of us as the lag gets insufferable beyond that. Too bad, as this game is a total **** to play with friends. :D
Elara
09-20-2007, 07:54 PM
I finally got the second system running for DL. Had to up the video card.... I'm going to check with dreamcatcher to see if any of their ppl have toyed with making a DL server that runs w/o video or at least w/o needing a player to be setup at the start. So far I have determined that if I start the game on the server, and then kill that player, the game still runs fine, w/o any one playing on it.

I have 1.5MB/896K dsl for this system, so I have faster bandwidth UP than most connections (most are 384-512 up).

Let me know of you have any thoughts / ideas in set up. I'm going to tune the server game way back on video etc, and the fact that it will be running WITHOUT a player on it should help considerably for lag issues...

-Bunny
joe.moma41@yahoo.com
10-21-2007, 04:54 PM
hey today i bought a copy of DL at wallmart(10-21-07) for 9$ likie u did. I installed it and every thing but when i buble click it to play it it satrts up then crashes (just a black flicker)..... plz help me and pm me as soon as u get this with wat to do. :confused:




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mapes
10-21-2007, 07:37 PM
I have been reading in multiple other posts that you have to make sure like your chipset is not an Intel or some other kinds of types. I was wondering if there is a patch or something about this game that will allow it to play on the computer. I have all the other qualifications to run it just my chipset is intel versus anything else
bigruneboss
11-02-2007, 08:25 PM
is no one on under lan or wat my code isnt valid for collector's edition so i can go on the other 2 so if u wanna meet online tell me
SouthernYankee
11-21-2007, 06:03 AM
I too bought a copy of the game and installed it on one of our computers for my boyfriend. Works great, in fact, I started to play it and likes it so I tried to put it on my comp and couldn't. Thought it was because of a key or something so I went out and bought a second copy of the game for my comp. Installed quick and easy, no problems until I click on the icon to opent he game. All it does is flickers for a millisecond and I get nothing. Any ideas? Tried to go to the website for tech support or something but I get a page in Dutch :(
Percphs
12-21-2007, 12:52 AM
hey today i bought a copy of DL at wallmart(10-21-07) for 9$ likie u did. I installed it and every thing but when i buble click it to play it it satrts up then crashes (just a black flicker)..... plz help me and pm me as soon as u get this with wat to do. :confused:




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You prrrrobably don't have a good enough graphics card. I would suggest... buying a new one.... or else you won't be playing the game. That's what I had to do. I warn you, they're not cheap. Mine was +$100. But, hey, Christmas is next week.

The best of luck.

If not, just call DreamCatcher.