Online Gaming

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Online Gaming
By Alex Albl
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What is online gaming?

• Online gaming is basically playing games over the
  internet with other people and with the computer
  too.

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LAN Parties

• What is a LAN party?
• A LAN party is a temporary gathering of gamers
  usually bringing their own computers and or
  consoles and playing over a local area network.
  Can be from 5 to 2500 people.

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Dial-up Cheapest cost of a landline.
(Telephone line) Doesn't work for most
games. DSL 30 per month. (Much faster than
dial up.) Bottom line DSL is fine for most all
games. Cable More expensive than DSL faster
speeds.
What type of internet connection does gaming
require?
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Single VS Multiplayer Gaming
Singleplayer gaming is when you don't play with
or against anyone else but the games AI. The
reason for multiplayer Gaming is just to have
competitive social fun with either people across
the room or world or over a LAN.
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Hardware required

• Computer that meets system requirements for game.
  The easiest way to find out is just by going to
  www.systemrequirementslab.com. The main advantage
  of consoles is that they stay the same for all
  their 4-6yr life cycle MUCH SLOWER hardware
  advance then computers.

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Monitors for gaming

• For consoles any T.V. will do but an old e.g.
  from 10 yrs ago but it won't give you the image
  quality you want for gaming.
• For 150 a 20 inch LCD monitor will provide
  great gaming performance. In the case that you
  still have a CRT it will be just fine in fact it
  will most likely better than mid range LCD's
  made before 2006.

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How much do the games cost?

• New games generally cost 40-50. Wether they be
  boxed or downloaded legally via Steam.
• Some games such as World Of Warcraft require that
  you pay a 15 monthly subscription. Xbox-live
  costs 50 annualy.

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Acessories For Gaming

Accessories like mice,keyboards,joy sticks,
controllers, and racing wheels all are nice
accessories to have when gaming but for the most
part standard compounents are just fine.
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Accessories for gaming contd

• Here are some more pictures of nice accessories
  for gaming.

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Modding

• Gaming isn't as fun without having any modded
  hardware. Many people mod their PC's and X-boxes
  to show them off at LAN parties, just like people
  may do to cars.

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Security and Gaming

• Firewalls while essential can cause severe lag or
  make the game not work at all if configured
  poorly/ at high settings.
• Malware and Antimalware alike take up CPU
  resources and internet bandwidth thus while
  running in the background.
• In some instances getting your game to work may
  require you forward ports (poking holes) in your
  router firewall.

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Useful software

• Steam
• X-fire
• Fraps
• Hamachi
• Peazip
• Avira Antivir
• Microsoft Sysinternals

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• www.tweakguides.com
• www.gamespot.com
• www.pcgamer.co.uk
• www.pcformat.co.uk
• www.maximumpc.com

Useful links