Phase 3 or beta or whatever the next step is

[Junibeater]

In the next set of tests and stuff will you have to get accept by them for testing or will you just be to download and play?

And I know its been said many times before, but I\'m still skeptical about the game being playable by people with my internet. (21.6kbps, and I\'m miles from anywhere in a 160 year old farm house.)  Can someone with internet relatively as bad as mine give me some insight.

[Chestar]

Well with 21.6kbps you will definetly need atleast 512 RAM, (and even then expect some lag) and the testing version is MB, which you can uninstall and remove from your comp once CB is released, so that should open up some space, but the age of your house doesn\'t have much to do with it... hope to see you in CB

[Moogie]

Net lag and graphical lag are entirely unrelated. I don\'t see why he needs 512mb RAM if he has a slow Internet connection.

However, to avoid graphical lag, he\'s right, you\'ll need a pretty decent system. But you\'ll still probably suffer quite a bit from network lag, so just make sure you\'re not running any other bandwidth-using programs and you\'ll be fine.

Oh, except if you use AOL. Then you\'re sheet-outta-luck, I\'m afraid.

[Shadowfalcon]

When I at home, I play starcraft lag free over 14.4kbps, and I\'m pretty sure CB will use less bandwidth than any RTS. Im sure you\'ll be fine.

Unless you\'re on AOL. I feel sooooo sorry for you then,

[Efflixi Aduro]

Dude, get a Dell(tm). Oh! I mean get satalite internet.
You dont need to be near anything and its pretty decent. Not as fast as cable or dsl but its sure better than 21 K

[Junibeater]

ok, a few things
1. I do have a plenty good system so no worries there
2. I stated my house\'s age to show the fact im living the past and in a crap hole, so there is a little lag difference due to somewhat unstable phonelines.
3. I don\'t use AOL so no problems.
4. My parents are too poor and stuborn for satilite, so overall i guess it should be a good experience.

Thanks for your help.

[Zorium]

Why don\'t you buy a 56k modem, it wont be a massive improvement but its better than nothing (unless of course your phone lines are really bad/ your capped at 22kbps).

-Zorium

[Harkin]

i think its what happens at my moms, her crap phone lines max at 36kbps .... just his..max lower at about 21kbps

[Moogie]

56k is more expensive these days than Broadband. And totally not worth it.

[Typhorean]

Don\'t worry about it.  I live in a 120-year-old house in the fly speck town and we also only have low speed dial up available. (in this case, 33.6k)  I was playing an a box with WinXP AMD Athlon XP 1700+, half gig of RAM, Nvidea GeForce 3 5200 with virtually no lag.  When other people were lagging My fps dropped to around 25-30.

In MB, at least, bandwidth simply does not matter.  Once you have it downloaded, of course.

[Harkin]

wow Typhorean, almost the same computer as I have here, cept I got 3Mbps broadband and a Geforce 4 Ti4200 128MB card... but im glad for this PC... games play smooth as anything...

interesting note: on my old : 800Mhz Duron, 256 SDRAM 133, with my Geforce 4 Ti4200 128MB card in it ran BF:Vietnam, UT2K3 and many other games perfectly... i was impressed, b ut no i have more than a 200% overall performance boost I can put Morrowind on higher detail settings, I had to have the view distance low on the 800...

[Seytra]

Sattelite internet isn\'t good for gaming AFAICS. Firstly, it only uses the satlink for downstreaming, while the uplink goes through your phone line, and secondly, the distance between the sattelite and the sender and receiver station will cause severe transmission lag. It\'d be fine for downloading PS, though.

[Adeli]

Moogie, be careful of thinking like that, you need to take his location into account. Here dial up is pretty cheap, except for exceedingly stupid ISPs.

Harkin, over here, apparently all phone lines have a max of 36. I find this amusing as I know many, many people that connect at faster speeds.

[Harkin]

here we pay $45 for Comcast Cable Internet... way mopre expensive than most dial-up ISPs and Sprint DSL at $25...

my mom lives in an old house... built by her grandfather... lines i think have never been replaced... so they are quite old... anyway I could never go back to dial-up...

[Icebreaker]

It\'s quite possible he lives in a rural area where broadband internet is not available.