This is perfectly possible. My advice is as follows:
Set a date by which time all clients are to be updated by. Make this midnight before the LAN starts. Then after that tell all the attendees to right click on steam and choose exit (NOT Exit and Logout) Then when they turn on their PC's at the LAN steam clients will say they cant connect and will be in offline mode. Make sure the servers are updated as well to the same stage as the clients. Test this theory out with a machine before the lan - take the server and client offline to make sure they can all see each other and connect. This should minimise probs for the land event. If all this fails tell the people attending to bring their CS 1.5 installs as a backup just in case this all fails. Regards, Matt White [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wicked Sent: 12 May 2004 13:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [hlds_linux] LAN Party / Steam no-internet I'm going to be running a private lan party this august and I'm trying to figure out if I can use the new steam version of cs, or if I'm stuck with the old 1.5. I ran the party last year and even though steam was out we played 1.5 because that is what our server was using. Now we are all steam based and I'm not sure if they even have 1.5 installed. Is there a way to play steam based cs at a lan party without internet access? Can clients play steam cs without net access? Do I need internet access at my LAN Party if we play cs 1.6? I'm trying to find a way to get even a simple dialup for the event, so at least we could auth and stuff, but I'd rather not have to worry about it. Do I have to worry about it? -- Matt _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
