I posted something in the BoroLAN Forums about hosting a LAN party this month. The 14th seems to be the best date. It’s actually the only Friday this month I can host it on, so that’s it. If you can make it for that date please contact me and let me know. That way I will know if there is enough interest to make it worth the effort. I will make some calls as well. I hope to see you all there.
I played around with installing games to ram today. Unfortunately, since I only have 4GB of system memory, I was somewhat limited on which games I could install to it.
I installed Half-Life from cd first. It didn’t work. I found out that the unupdated non-steam version of Half-Life does not get along with Windows XP 64. It can’t recognize the way Windows handles the memory. The error I got kept telling me Half-Life requires at least 16MB of ram. Next I installed steam to RAM and ran Half-Life through that. This time the game launched, and I do mean launched. It was up in mere seconds. The load times were amazing. I hit a loading screen while running down a hallway on my way to get the HEV suit. It looked like the game just stuttered for a quarter second. The only other indication was the text “Loading” that was barely there long enough to notice. The first computer I played this game on took roughly a full minute to load a new area.
I wanted to test with Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, or Portal, but they all require much more space than I can provide in RAM. With another 4GB of RAM I could make a 6GB RAM disk and that wouldn’t have been a problem. It turns out that no matter how much computer I have I will always want more.
For those interested there will be a LAN Party at my house on Sunday the 31st of this month. That is one week from today. We will be starting after the church picnic. I’m not sure of an exact time, but probably around 4:00pm. The games are Call of Duty 4, Team Fortress 2, and Supreme Commander. We’ll play until we get tired of playing, or 6:00am, whichever comes first. Please call, text, or email Chris, Hooper, or myself to let us know that you are planning to attend. I hope to see you there.