LAN-only play

[kidder_sinc]

Hi,

 

As part of an after-school club, we want to have a big LAN battle with Red Alert.

We have some standalone dual core Laptops running Win7. They have no Internet access. (THey are connected a LAN that we set up with some cat5 and a hub.)

 

Can we use this software? I downloaded the Installer, installed and ran it, but it wants to download updates when I run CNCnet

Is there a way of bypassing this because we don't want to play online - only LAN.

 

Thanks in advance

[FunkyFr3sh]

you can get the updates and then zip the game folder and put it on the pcs, start cncnet5.exe with the -noupdate param

you will need to set up an irc server on one of the pcs

 

more details here:

http://cnc-comm.com/community/index.php?topic=2685.0

[Nyerguds]

I don't think they really need cncnet for that, funky. RA LAN should work fine without it.

[FunkyFr3sh]

he could do that, tutorial for that is in the linked thread as well

[kidder_sinc]

Hey, thanks for the tips guys,

 

Just for the record, I took one of the laptops home and let it update.

I then copied the RA folder from that laptop to the others.

 

Running RA95_spawn.exe allowed me to do what I wanted, - that is, go to multiplayer and then network.

We've had some great massive LAN battles already.

 

Cheers!

[FunkyFr3sh]

good to hear you guys could get it working