Building a dedicated gaming server

Crumpy1

Crumpy1

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Hi,

I have never built a server before of any kind and need as much help as possible to setup a small dedicated gaming server to play games with my mates from our own houses.

The system i am hoping to use is an old Pentium 4 32bit desktop computer, 2gb ram, 80gb sata HDD etc. I need to know what the best server os is for this sort of server(i have acsess to windows 2003 and enterprise 2008 but if there are others i may have to buy a copy). The server is really only to play age of empires 2 at the moment but would like to use it to play games similar to empire total war and F1 2011 in the future.

Also if anybody can direct me to a site or can tell me how to setup clients on a server so only i and people i allow can use it, and how to go about configuring games to use this server as a lot of the games i want to use are so old they no longer have server access through the developer.

Is this possible to acheive this with this spec system? Also how does a server work do the games run on the sever or do they run from each PC? This is only because the HDD is small in this machine so i need to know whether i need to invest a small amount of money into making it larger if the server is where the information is stored.

Hope that made sense to everyone, ANY help at all is appreciated.

Many Thanks
 
fluff said:
Some of those games don't require a server. I don't think you really need one...
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I am aware that these games are still available online to play currently. However we wish to use mods and hacks to the game which is not currently allowed with other servers.
 
I agree. Unless you are hosting the server in a data centre that will give good speeds to all connected players, you will gain very little benefit over having one of the players hosting it.
 
s0ck said:
I love the sound of paging in the morning ;)
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lol
Boot times and shutdown times are rarely over 2 and a half minutes; memory usage is around 39% most of the time. It doesn't really do much, just AD, IIS, TVersity server and a file server. :cool:
 
I've got a few R2 Core machines each with 512Mb RAM.
Only ones that page a little are the ones running DNS.

Just goes to show you how much crap goes into the Windows GUI.
 
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