LAN Party Guide

Welcome to LanPartyGuide.com!

Tricked out computers, Mountain Dew, pizza, cold cathodes, and PC games... OH it's a LAN Party! I've put together this website to help others get their LAN games up and working.

I've definetly had my fair share of trouble with lanparty games, so I figured I would share my knowledge with everyone.

Also, CONTACT ME if you have ideas!

6/30/09 - No LAN Play for Starcraft II?

Let me be the first to say WTF Blizzard.

"We don't currently plan to support LAN play with StarCraft II, as we are building Battle.net to be the ideal destination for multiplayer gaming with StarCraft II and future Blizzard Entertainment games. While this was a difficult decision for us, we felt that moving away from LAN play and directing players to our upgraded Battle.net service was the best option to ensure a quality multiplayer experience with StarCraft II and safeguard against piracy."

The whole point of a LAN is the commerodery of being with your friends. Yeah we could play games online, but it's not the same. Worst decision ever.

Full Story

6/28/09 - X-fi 2.18.0013

This is the latest driver from Creative, and the first X-fi driver to support Windows 7. It also supports XP and Vista.

X-fi 2.18.0013

6/26/09 - Red Alert 3 v1.11 Patch

This patch fixes a handful of bugs, and does a lot of balance tweaking. It also includes two new maps for Red Alert 3 Uprising.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 v1.11 Patch (EN)

6/11/09 - Fear 2: Project Origin v1.04

This adds the Armored Front map pack, which includes two maps (Conductor and Decoy), as well as four unique character heads to swap out.

Download - 899.91MB

6/03/09 - Far Cry 2 v1.03

This patch incorporates several changes requested by the community, as well as a new 'hardcore' mode.

Far Cry v1.03 - 60MB

6/03/09 - Forceware 186.08 Beta

This new release has many bug fixes over the 185 drivers, and also includes PhysX System Software version 9.09.0428.

WinXP 32bit

7 | Vista 32bit

7 | Vista 64bit

If you just wanted the physx driver, here it is: PhysX 9.09.0428.

5/28/09 - ATI Catalyst 9.5

I've been a little lazy about posting this, but whatevz. I'm an Nvidia guy anyway. Go complain on the internet.

5/10/09 - LOL

I felt like making one. Let me know if you liked it!

*sigh* and for those of you who don't get it, go here and here and here. However if you had to click any of those the joke is no longer funny. FAIL.

5/08/09 - Forceware 185.85 WHQL

This newest WHQL release adds support for the GTX275, Ambient Occlusion, CUDA 2.2, and also offers a decent performance boost vs the 182 drivers in games like Crysis Warhead, Far Cry 2, Mirror's Edge, Half-Life 2, and Fallout 3. This release includes PhysX driver 9.09.0408.

5/05/09 - Unreal Tournament 3 v2.1

This patch seems to fix about a billion different things (hopefully the issues introduced in v2.0 are among them). You can see the fixes and download it by clicking the link.

Unreal Tournament 3 v2.1 patch

5/03/09 - Ocarina of Time Original vs Hi-Res

I took a moment to create this comparison video. It utilizes Federelli's hi-res pack, as well as MudLord's Rice video plugin and shaders. The bloom and HDR effects may be a little over the top, but there are plenty of other shaders to play with for this. I will be updating the Zelda page soon with info on how to get this up and running. ;)

Here it is with the shaders disabled

And here I have compared Federelli's hi-res to Dijipi's Celda. No shaders here either.

5/01/09 - Crysis Wars 1.5

This will update your installation of Crysis Wars to v1.5.

Download

4/30/09 - Forceware 185.81 Beta

This newest beta release adds support for the GTX275, Ambient Occlusion, CUDA 2.2, and also offers a decent performance boost vs the 182 drivers. This release includes PhysX driver 9.09.0203.

Download the newer 9.09.0408 PhysX Driver here.

Awesome Artwork

A good friend of mine decided to make this epic depiction of Link and Ganon. Check it out! Click the thumbnail to see the fullsize image.

See his deviantart page here!

4/16/09 - Fear 2: Project Origin v1.03

This patch fixes some AI path finding problems, leaderboard issues, and also includes the "Toy Soldiers" map.

Download - 336.21MB

4/15/09 - Dawn of War II Demo

Here's the demo! It requires Steam to play.

Download - 333.54MB

4/12/09 - PhysX 9.09.0408

This is the latest PhysX driver released by Nvidia.

Download - 39.2MB

4/11/09 - Call of Duty World at War 1.4

This patch adds 3 new multiplayer maps, and also tweaks a lot of multiplayer gameplay.

Download - 581.37 MB

4/10/09 - Dragonball Evolution

I know this isn't videogame related, but chances are there are a few Dragonball fans reading this. If so, please heed my warning: Dragonball Evolution is absolutely terrible. I found myself laughing throughout the film just because it was so poorly done and slapped together. Aside from the obvious things (where's Krillin?), there is absolutely no character development, they never hint at how Piccolo escaped his prison, everything just zips by with little or no thought, and the only part of the movie that actually even resembles Dragonball(z) is about 5 min long. I find myself wondering which was worse, the Super Mario Brothers movie or Dragonball Evolution.

So to reiterate, if you have any sort of respect for the series, do NOT see this movie. I almost wish I had seen the Hannah Montana movie instead of this. DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR MONEY! PLEASE!

Save your money, and watch it here if you must. Yeah I checked, it's basically the whole film.

4/9/09 - ATI Catalyst 9.4

This release includes the new ATI OverDrive� auto-tuning application which promises to accurately determine the best over-clocked engine and memory values for ATI Overdrive supported ATI Radeon� Graphics accelerators.

4/9/09 - Forceware 185.68 Beta

This newest beta release is optimized for The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. These drivers also offer a nice performance boost compared to the 182 series.

4/03/09 - Realtek HD Audio 2.21

This newest driver is compatible with XP, Vista, and even Seven.

Realtek HD Audio 2.21 Driver

4/2/09 - Forceware 182.50 WHQL, 185.65 Beta

This newest WHQL release has optimized single GPU and SLI support for upcoming PC games, and also includes numerous bug fixes. Includes PhysX 9.09.0203.

The newest beta driver promises big improvements in performance vs the 182 drivers. Up to 14% increase in Far Cry 2, 11% in COD:WaW, etc... Includes PhysX 9.09.0203.

3/29/09 - Audigy 2.18.0010

This latest driver adds support for a Dolby Digital Live (you will need to purchase the software pack). Do not use if you have the Audigy LS, Audigy SE, or the Audigy Value.

Audigy 2.18.0010 Driver

3/29/09 - Realtek HD Audio 2.20

This newest driver is compatible with XP, Vista, and even Seven.

Realtek HD Audio 2.20 Driver

3/28/09 - Red Alert 3 v1.09 Patch

This patch fixes a handful of bugs, and does a lot of balance tweaking.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 v1.09 Patch (EN)

3/25/09 - Forceware 182.47 Beta

Adds support for OpenGL 3.1 and GLSL 1.40 on G80 GeForce based graphics cards.

3/25/09 - ATI Catalyst 9.3

ATI has released a new Catalyst driver. This driver helps bump performance in a few games, and adds support for Window 7.

3/23/09 - DirectX 9.0c March 2009

This is the latest build of DirectX 9.0c

Download

3/17/09 - nForce 15.26 WHQL

nVidia has released a new nForce driver. This new driver includes support for nForce 6 and 7, and the new 980a chipset (a renamed 780a chipset for AM3). nVidia, stop renaming your same chips please. Your fanboys are getting angry.