dMw LAN VIII - Packing List & Steam Instructions

TeaLeaf · September 14, 2005, 03:44:38 PM

OK, this thread will provide a packing list so that you remember to bring everything you should bring to the LAN along with a guide as to how to ensure your steam is up to date. If you have something to add to the list then please post it here and I will edit it into the main list.

IMPORTANT:
Do this ON THURSDAY NIGHT ABOUT 10.00 PM. IF YOU DO THIS FRIDAY MORNING YOU MIGHT PICK UP A STEAM UPDATE THAT NONE OF THE REST OF US OR THE LAN SERVER WILL HAVE. THEN YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CONNECT TO THE LAN GAME!!!!

Thursday 10.00pm
1. Connect to the Internet
2. Start Steam

3. **CRUCIAL** If you DO have the 'do not save account details on this computer' checked then enter your password and UNCHECK THE BOX. If you don't you'll loose your password details from the login screen and will not be able to play CS at the LAN **CRUCIAL**

4. Log onto Steam
5. Click 'Exit' on the Steam menu and quit Steam
6. Disconnect from the Internet
7. Start Steam and when the dialog box appears click 'offline mode'
8. Make sure Steam starts and you can fire up CS
9. Exit Steam again
10. Try restarting Steam again.
11. Run a complete Anti-virus scan.
12. Go to bed
13. Wake up
14. Go to the LAN

In a nutshell just make sure you can connect to Steam without being asked for your password. If you are asked to type in your password you're not going to be able to play at the LAN

BattleField2
The same rules apply to BF2. If a patch arrives on Thursday night then download it and install it. We hope to have an internet connection at the LAN but you never know when it might fail, so be patched up to Thursday night when you arrive at the LAN.

THINGS TO BRING TO THE LAN

Hardware:
PC - Virus & Trojan Free!
Monitor & VGA/DVI cable
Keyboard with cable
Mouse with cable
Mouse Mats
Power cables for PC, monitor etc
Panel plug (so that you can plug all of your electrics into the one panel).
Extension cable (just in case you end up 10m away from the nearest plug.
Joystick/Steering wheel
Lots of spare HDD space
Headphones (no you cannot bring your speakers )

Software:
Driver software for any hardware that you bring (in case you need to reinstall).
OS software for those hard luck system crashes followed by format c:
Games software

Networking
Your PC must have a working NIC (network card)
Ethernet cable - preferrably as long as you can get (10m would be great)

Miscellaneous
Duck tape - to keep those trailing cables from being triped on.
Hardware spares (if you have any then bring them just in case somebody else needs to swap out a CPU or HDD etc).
There is a licensed bar 10 yards from the gaming room.
There is a high street with shops, cash points etc 20 yards from the gaming room.

Doorman · September 14, 2005, 04:19:46 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by TeaLeaf@Sep 14 2005, 03:44 PM
There is a licensed bar 10 yards from the gaming room.
There is a high street with shops, cash points etc 20 yards from the gaming room.
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There is a toilet 3 yards from the gaming room so NO peeing in the corner. :angry:

Especially my corner.

Blunt · September 14, 2005, 05:33:41 PM

I wondered why your corner smelt of wee

Sn00ks · September 14, 2005, 07:37:53 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by Blunt@Sep 14 2005, 05:33 PM
I wondered why your corner smelt of wee
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He's old, thats why :devil: :roflmao: :whistle:

sheepy · September 14, 2005, 07:46:32 PM

im starting to update steam/cz now.
i havnt played since the last lan due to my connection. and with my connection ithink its gunna take a weekrunning 24/7 in order to get the updates!
i really gotta get broadband, i just havnt had the time to organise it!

Doorman · September 14, 2005, 10:43:57 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by Blunt@Sep 14 2005, 05:33 PM
I wondered why your corner smelt of wee
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It wasn't me fer crissakes! It was them other dirty barstewards :angry:

sheepy · September 16, 2005, 08:03:39 PM

omg!

i have just started a 3 hour download to update CZ!!!!

TeaLeaf · October 04, 2005, 02:11:26 PM

Hopefully, some fortnight later Sheepy has finished updating Steam :norty:

Thought this thread deserved a bump as there are only a couple of days left before we all arrive at LAN VIII. :cheers:

TL.

MAD_ness · October 04, 2005, 06:48:57 PM

I know I'm not attending .....

but there has been an update today folks, so dont forget !!!!

DuVeL · October 04, 2005, 10:10:03 PM

While it was uploading, it reset some settings again of my Steam with my internetconnection speed. :angry:

sheepy · October 06, 2005, 08:14:12 PM

i think there has been another, big update since my last post! another big download!
138mins!
bugger.

Jamoe · October 06, 2005, 08:21:04 PM

ive got to download the lot otnight as my primary drive has foobed

Ranger · October 07, 2005, 01:48:52 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by TeaLeaf@Sep 14 2005, 02:44 PM
OK, this thread will provide a packing list so that you remember to bring everything you should bring to the LAN...
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MAy I just take issue with this statement...

I arrived at work this morning all packed up ready to go to the LAN first thing tomorrow (I am staying over at Paddy's tonight).

And much to my horror, I found several imprtant things were missing from your list - which I now have not got but am told that I will have needed.

Here are some of the things that are missing:

1) Underpants
2) Socks
3) Spare shirt
4) Spare trousers
5) Toothbrush
6) 'Deoderant' (?)

...And something that my friends girlfriend called a 'toiletries bag'

I now feel rather foolish, not to mention somewhat left out, that these things were not communicated to me.

I tried telling the girlfriend that I had intended to to the 'four way flip' with my current set of undies to make them last the weekend. But she seems to feel that this is less than adequate.

Yours syncerely,

Stinky-Ranger

smite · October 07, 2005, 05:35:20 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by Ranger@Oct 7 2005, 01:48 PM
MAy I just take issue with this statement...

I arrived at work this morning all packed up ready to go to the LAN first thing tomorrow (I am staying over at Paddy's tonight).

And much to my horror, I found several imprtant things were missing from your list - which I now have not got but am told that I will have needed.

Here are some of the things that are missing:

1) Underpants
2) Socks
3) Spare shirt
4) Spare trousers
5) Toothbrush
6) 'Deoderant' (?)

...And something that my friends girlfriend called a 'toiletries bag'

I now feel rather foolish, not to mention somewhat left out, that these things were not communicated to me.

I tried telling the girlfriend that I had intended to to the 'four way flip' with my current set of undies to make them last the weekend. But she seems to feel that this is less than adequate.

Yours syncerely,

Stinky-Ranger
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1) Don't wear any.
2) Go bare foot
3) Shirt? are we having a meeting?
4) Spare.... Trousers ....Spare ....why
5) Finger?....bit posh arn't ya.
6) Pfff You could never cover that smell