ALL lan threads merged here

Ok guys, was playing starcraft earlier in the 5 star, it was a bit slow to load and connect, but once the game was running, on all low settings it had a pretty high frame rate.
I was playing a 1v1 with jhax and latency wasn't a problem either.
But i got 3 error messages while playing the game, something about the ATI accelerator failing, the first two just tabbed the game out and i could continue my match with jhax no problem, just a little lag on my end. But the third time the game wouldn't go back in. Unfortunately i didn't have time to stick around for another game as i had to pick up the gf.
But i had a little chat with the owner.

Here's the info:
He has 32 pc's in the XGC center on liffey street, he's charging 300 euro for 32 people for the 12 hours, 10pm to 10am.
He has Starcraft 2 installed on all the machines and all the machines are identical. Keyboard + mouse + headset with a large enough screen, but we won't be availing of the high resolution for sc2
As for the crashing issue, he says that the pc's in the 5 star are run 24/7, so it was bound to crash, we can restart the pc's in the XGC if there are any issues.
He also said that when they have dota tournaments, they frequently save the matches as they go along, just in case someone's machine decides to crash, so perhaps we should get that kinda thing rolling.

He has a bunch of ps3's and xbox 360's in the xgc aswell, if people get bored. Plus SC1, wc3, cod 4, cs 1.6 and source? eve online, WoW and a bunch of others i didn't look for.

He did mention that he doesn't know how the broadband will hold up with 32 players playing at once. But i was in the cafe playing online with lots of people around online at the same time, and latency and lag weren't really an issue.

I'm ready to drop in a deposit tomorrow of 150, if you guys wanna give me the go ahead to book the XGC for the 28th of jan

Additional crash info: There was no fps lag or in game lag before the crash, just a cut to black screen + a warning saying "auto-detect" and then it went back into the game

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

What flavour of pringle? This is far more urgent than the status of the gfx cards.

Ya know the pringle flavoured pringles, those.

As for the gfx card, they're the same as the 5 star, but i played a 1v1 online in kulas ravine, ZvZ both with 150 food we had a battle, not so much a problem for those pc's, so it should be fine for the lan. Unless murphy's law kicks in.

Those that wanna bring laptops, you're gonna need to say that you are bringing one and you also gotta show up a little bit earlier to get set up, as the guy who knows all the techie stuff won't be staying much later than 10pm.

We've booked the XGC on Liffey Street. They have 32 pc's, all the same spec and then a few slots for laptops, you'll need an ethernet slot on the lappie.

Good news also, they have age of empires 2 on the pc's, so that should be lol-tastic. Also Dawn of War-Dark Crusade, AoE3, Starcraft brood war etc. so as i've mentioned before, it **** goes wrong with sc2, we've a lot to keep ourselves occupied for the night


2nd Also, The venue has a bunch of xbox and ps3 units, (by units i mean no games or controllers, just the box itself) So if you wanna bring some controllers and games along, you're welcome to. But there will be another group there using the xbox's for some xbox-ey reason, so there may not be any available. If you wanna use a ps3/xbox it'd be an extra 10 euro for the whole night. The owner will let a couple people use a machine for free, but if lotsa people wanna use consoles, they gotta pay

so i need royal to do a revised attendance list, also can someone draw up a tourney plan with the revised peeps and can they run it on the night/?