gt4 lan and or online

[Freelancer]

hey i have played gt 4 for a while now and i must say its a great game.
My friend and i love to do multiplayer races and want to do it with more people. before we drag a other ps2 or 3 to my house i want to know something about lan.

can we play with 4 people with 2 playstations?

and about the online what do people use and where do i get it?

i have the pal version

thx for all that reply

 

[Duke]

Read This - conveniently stickied at the top of this board. Look under "Miscellaneous".

 

[-Cheezman-]

Nope, you can only play with two people with two Playstations. You can't enter 2 player mode in LAN.

That means if you want to play with 4 people, you need 4 Playstations, 4 TVs and a HUB.

If you want to direct link two Playstation consoles together for full screen two player (meaning each player has their own screen), then, you need a crossover cable, and you need to configure both Playstations.

This website covers just about everything: http://mastergt.250free.com/GT4/LAN_GT4/GT4_LANs.html

Online play is covered here: https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=55956

Also be warned, you can't use cars from simulation mode in LAN, only cars you marked as your "favorite" in Arcade mode.

 

[Freelancer]

ok thx all then ill just have to wait till gt 5 and hope its for 4 players but i think its not going to be

 

[RealWeirdo]

i surely hope GT 5 is online for about 4 till 8 players

 

[MasterGT]

ok thx all then ill just have to wait till gt 5 and hope its for 4 players but i think its not going to be

I can't imagine GT will ever allow 4 players on one console.
The way they push the hardware, it ain't going to happen.

Cheers,

MasterGT

 

[Freelancer]

but make gt5 atleast lan for 2 players on 1 console that isnt so hard

 

[-Cheezman-]

but make gt5 atleast lan for 2 players on 1 console that isnt so hard

Rendering wise, yes it is very hard. That would consume a lot of graphical power, to render two different screens with one console, in a graphic intensive game... it would only work if you wanted really bad textures and very nasty looking cars.

Just go into two player mode in GT4 as is, and look at the graphics compared to single player mode... huge difference in quality.

 

[RealWeirdo]

i think that the Ps3 is capable of good graphics in 2 player mode with splittscreen
he's allot more powerful as a Ps2

 

[MasterGT]

It's all relative.

When you push the PS2 hardware to its maximum already, something has to give when you try to double its workload.

Now, do the same thing with the PS3. If it is already under a heavy load (GT5 should be using pushing hard), how do you expect it to be able to handle twice as much? It can't, for the same reason.

If GT5 is not pushing the hardware hard, then something is very wrong.

Cheers,

MasterGT

 

[-Cheezman-]

It's all relative.

When you push the PS2 hardware to its maximum already, something has to give when you try to double its workload.

Now, do the same thing with the PS3. If it is already under a heavy load (GT5 should be using pushing hard), how do you expect it to be able to handle twice as much? It can't, for the same reason.

If GT5 is not pushing the hardware hard, then something is very wrong.

Cheers,

MasterGT

Exactly.

You have to understand how a game works before you can even make a judgment on "I think it can do it".

If it were two player, on two different screens from one console. That one console has to render two TOTALLY different scenes at the same time, and same speed. That is simply too much work load on a CPU. GT5 will undoubtably put stress on the PS3, perhaps not as much as games will at the end of the PS3's life, but, still quite a bit.

And yes, the scenes ARE different. If one car is three car spaces ahead of the other one, that is a difference in the environment, and the car will probably not be the same either. So that means the PS3 is rendering two different cars (lots of detail, high poly count) and two different scenes (lots of detail and high poly count).

 

[Freelancer]

bu tyou have a multiplayer in gt4 to so i cant see wy not put it on lan with 2 players

 

[MasterGT]

Yeah, 2-player LANs are way better than 2-player mode, any day.

The problem with the PS3 is the up front costs mean fewer of your friends have a PS3, so people will still need a good 2-player mode.

Cheers,

MasterGT