is there a way

[c44151]

At gaming centres were they have got multiple games playing at one time is each game on a computer and how might they run with a cd or with out a cd. I f you were to set one up amd or intel Most centre I found use amd. so which speed would be good for some gaming and future games. video cards nivida or ati for half life 2.

[ShawnD1]

Was your post translated into english by Babelfish? It's hard to understand what you are asking.

1. That game is on each computer. LAN is much too slow to transfer data for gaming. I've actually tried playing Quake2 where the game was on a different computer in my LAN and it caused the biggest lag ever. The games are definitely installed on every computer.

2. To play the game without the CD, you need to make an image of the CD on your hard drive with a program like CDSpace or Alcohol 120%. I use CDSpace myself and it works great.

3. For CPU, I don't know what would be considered a good speed for future games but I would definitely go with an AMD processor. AMD chips are not as fast but the money saved could be spent on a faster video card.

4. When asking whether ATI or Nvidia is best for HL2, the answer is ATI. Nvidia has a real problem with DirectX 9 right now. Currently, ATI cards are like twice as fast when playing HL2 (literally).

[soulja]

to get a game to run without cd, get daemon toolz, but u gotta copy the cd as .bin or clone cd way, img, long as it has the .cue file ur good to load that and ur on ur way,

[Dax_Brandy]

yeah, i also recommend using alcohol 120% for game cd imaging. AMD paired with ATI cards..

good luck.

[c44151]

sorry I had a hard day at work and was tired

[Redwolf]

First, you need to rip the Cd images with something like Alchohol 120%. Then you need a program to emulate CD drives. A good free one is Dameon tools ( http://www.daemon-tools.cc/portal/portal.php ). If you have troube with some games, you'll probably need to prep the image for Safedisk 2 use with Insekktors. That program patches the image and controls the CD drive to use them properly. Yes, it works with Emulated drives.

Now, you need a MONSTER computer to play 2 games at once, and a way to play either with 2 monitors or with one monitor, but switching back and forth between desktops. There are 3rd party software that do both (the latter needs no 3rd party soft, but you have to know what you are doing to get ti to work right).

[ShawnD1]

Playing 2 games at once is actually quite easy if you have win9x.
Windows 98 and ME seem to suck bad at multitasking, they give huge priority to whatever program you have selected. If you have something like Quake and Quake2 running at the same time, power is given to whatever game is currently being used. You could play Quake with no lag at all, shrink it then go to Quake2 and have no lag in that either.
However, you can't play 2 games at once on Win2k or XP without a level of difficulty. The multitasking abilities of 2k and XP would make both games lag unless you had some weird third party software.