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As promised in my last post, this guide is courtesy of Lex of Lex224 forums.

This is a quick guide to getting yourself playing games online. It’s a very general guide, not covering any game in specific but a basic walkthrough to playing online.

Internet

Obviously, to play games online, you need an internet connection. Online games depend heavily on the type of internet connection you have. More recent games with better graphics and detailed game-play will require broadband of some sort. As long as it’s 1mb or faster, I think you’ll be alright.

Of course even with dial-up you can play some online games. This does restrict the type of games you can play like online casino games and other small ones. I’ll not go into these types of games with this guide so I’m assuming you’ve got broadband or some other semi-fast internet.

Game

The number of online games increases each day. The majority of games released these days have some kind of online mode where you can play with people from all over the world, together, against each other or both. Some games have different types of online modes. You’ll need to try each of these modes to see which one you like best.

Joining an online game

Well, you’ve got a game with internet capabilities and an internet connection. What more could you want? To actually play! To play with people online, it is much easier to join a server than to make one. This is for a variety of reason such as internet issues and difficulty of the game to actually make one to your specifications.

So, you’ll join a game which already exists. When you start up the game, you’ll be confronted with a main menu. This is where you can select what to play, whether you want to play online, where you can change the games settings and other tabs which show you the games features. What you want to do is join a game in the internet. I don’t know exactly what you will have to click but it could be anything from ‘Multiplayer’, ‘Join Game’, ‘Internet’, ‘Servers’ etc.

When you find your way to the internet part of the game, you will be faced with a list of servers, or separate instances of the game, ran by other people on the internet in order for people to join. Here will also be other information. Click here to continue reading the guide at Lex224 Forums

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