Hi everybody!

I just started to make my very own multiplayer shooter exclusively for lan games. Ive read a lot of things about bps and latency and stuff and how to optimize games for internet play. Hower i ask myself what would be the best way to optimize it for lan. Should i let the server do most of the work because latency is low? Should i set dplay_entrate and dplay_smooth to zero?

I hope you can give me some good tips.

best regards,
kingda_ka

I think you dont need to optimize it this much for lan. It depends on what pc's are in your network. if there are a realy wooden one you might get a problem if you let do it the clients but if your server-pv isnt strong enought you also might get "lags"
with modern pc's I cant imagine there is anything you need to do. I have not done this much with 3dgs just some tests but if you dont try to connect with to much people(I think a lan game won't make it up to 10-20) you wont get problems if you just write it as you wish.
Just end your work on it and try a test will help better than 100 posts here
(but you could tell us your experience)

lomacil

For LAN you dont need to optimize the script cause LAN is much faster than Internet.
But you should keep in mind that when the server dont do all the work you can easily hack the game down. As example you are reloading, but server dont give you bullets. The client of YOU is doing that. Now you can use cheat engine or any other memory hacker tool and chnage the ammo+=1 to like ammo+= 9999 and he have unlimited ammo
If you letting the client scan for enemies the game will be dead.
The client can trick the server and will get unlimited kills in one second.
Please keep this in mind!