Hosting

[Aztek]

Couple quick questions about hosting:

1) What specs are good to have on the host PC? IE does it matter if it has a good video card or does it needs lots of CPU/RAM, etc?

2) Is there a substantial performance hit by running the host on one of the players' PCs?

Thanks,
Aztek

[CarRepairer]

You don't need a good PC. All you need is a fast connection. Every player runs the game on their own PC.

And you don't even need a fast connection if you use an autohost. Hosting a game on SpringDownloader uses an autohost by default. SpringLobby allows you to do so as well by checking the Relayhost checkbox.

[Aztek]

So basically it assigns one of the players to be the host ingame anyways?

[Beherith]

Since the simulation runs on each client, the host only transfers commands as overhead.
Using a relayhost delegates the job of handling the network traffic to the relayhost, so you dont even need a fast connection.

[Aztek]

What's a relayhost?

[Forboding Angel]

Using a relayhost delegates the job of handling the network traffic to the relayhost, so you dont even need a fast connection.

What's a relayhost?

What is this? Jeopardy?