Online Game Night #14
Thanks Acrid for the good Age Of Empires II game! Might have been even more fun with other folks too though. :)

Those Who Played
1) Acrid 2) JAG

The next online event we will be playing Quake 3 on Wednesday, September 26th, at 8PM.

Online Game Night #13 - View Log
Disruptor had a few problems with Roger Wilco, but aside from that, it seemed much better this evening. I still have to test a few more options with it though. And we had the "usual" connection interrupted in Q3 a few times, which I had hoped lowering our "cl_maxpackets" to 30 would help. It seemed to be better in that it didn't last as long, but wasn't completely resolved.

Nate "Todesengel" Traxler joined our online event for the first time testing connection speeds with a 56K modem. Unfortunately, his pings were over 400 and it didn't even seem worth playing for him. He said that he should be getting DSL here pretty soon. Also, Matt "Empty" (someone I met at Lantrocity last Saturday) almost made the game too but couldn't get the Jaguar Mod Pack downloaded in time. We look forward to playing with both of them in the near future!

Those Who Played
1) Disruptor 2) Dr. Death 3) Duck	4) Ham_Sammich 5) JAG 6) Mr. Buns
Almost made the game...
1) Nate "Todesengel" Traxler 2) Matt "Empty" Whitaker

The next online event we will be playing Age Of Empires II - The Conquerors on Thursday, September 20th, at 8PM.

Also, online game night will be moving to Wednesday nights at 8PM starting September 26th. Let me know if anyone has anything conflicting with that night.

Detonator XP Drivers Version 21.81 Released!!
NVidia has released their newest GeForce video driver pack that will support GeForce cards for any OS. Let's hope we can get even higher frame rates now! Thanks to Nathan Traxler for the lead. Download them here!

Release Highlights:
-Performance increases of up to 50%
-Highly optimized DirectX® and OpenGL® pipelines
-New OpenGL 1.3 ICD with NVIDIA extensions
-NVIDIA’s patented Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) all products supported in single driver binary

Online Game Night #12
A pretty smooth evening. The Roger Wilco voice program worked great earlier in the week, but got hung tonight and had to be restarted on the server. Thanks to all of those who played:

Those Who Played
1) Bad Mojo 2) Disruptor 3) Dr. Death 4) Duck	5) Jackal 6) JAG 7) Mr. Buns

The next online event will be (Thursday, September 6th, at 8PM).

The following Thursday we will be playing Age Of Empires II (September 13th).

Online Game Night #11
Well, the new server seems to fair well! Thanks to Duck for providing it. We'll still probably need to continue tweaking, but the 768K bandwidth up and down has made all the difference in the world! Thanks to all of those who played:

Those Who Played
1) Disruptor 2) Dr. Death 3) Duck	4) Jackal 5) JAG 6) Mr. Buns
Almost made the game...
1) BadMojo

Along the "tweaking" lines, I found a pretty kewl web site describing how to maximize your network settings.

http://guides.barrysworld.com/quake3/TweakingQ3/

The server had the following settings for most of the evening:

seta rate "25000"
seta snaps "40"
seta cl_maxpackets "40"
seta cl_packetdup "0"

If you’re on DSL/Cable, then this might be what you use in your config too… This is the recommened setting for LAN play so in the future we all may need to tone it down a little. The next online event will be next week same bat time, same bat channel (Thursday, September 6th, at 8PM).

Online Game Night #10
AOE2 was a blast! Been a long time since we’ve played that one! It really felt like a Mini-LAN party. Thanks to all of those who played:

Those Who Played
1) Blazan 2) Christal "Genghis Bunny" Stroup 3) Duck	4) JAG 5) Ozone
Almost made the game...
1) Acrid

Next Thursday night (August 30th) at 8PM we will be playing Quake 3 but on the new server that Duck is providing! More details to come. We will be doing more testing on Mon/Tues. night next week too. I’ll email everyone with the details just before in case you’d like to play with us. The testing that we’ve done already has proven to be very exciting!!

Tonight's Game Night Post-phoned
The Age Of Empires II Online Event has been rescheduled to Thursday, August 23rd at 8PM. The following Thursday (the 30th), Quake 3 Arena will be running on our new server.