How to host a LAN game please?

[assuntaortu]

I'm sure it's easy, and I'm fairly computer literate, but how do you do it?

[M1GHTY B34NZ]

Not sure if this is still accurate because it's from 2018 but this might help

https://www.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/8xs6at/help_lan_servers/

Are both PC's your playing from able to access the internet?

If so and your internet speed isn't total bunksauce, you could just Host a game, set it to private, and dedicate at least 2gb of ram per 1 extra player
In my personal experience while messing around with this I was able to host a game with 2 other people with only 3gb dedicated to memory, and that was just with 8gb of ram to begin with

Hope this helps

[assuntaortu]

Thanks, I was able to make it work from the link you gave me.
But why don't they just tell us how to do it? Adding the -nosteam to the server and client worked on LAN, without running the dos server.

Thanks for your pointer, I think there should be a sticky post outlining the steps for multiplayer LAN and online.

[M1GHTY B34NZ]

I'm glad I was able to help.

I feel the same way, unfortunately it's a game in development and they're constantly changing/adding things. Until it gets to a build they're comfortable calling "complete" we can't expect any clear "how-to's." Personally, I don't mind, but it definitely is irritating at times.

[WiseCog]

I think we should be happy some devs still add LAN. Having to look up the guide is fine as a tradeoff, but would be a plus if it were easier. There are so many games I wish I could play offline and MP. The reason being I love to play with family and I own a house in the forest which LAN is simply far superior to "online" servers in every way (there are days when the internet doesn't even work properly out there).

I bought this game on GOG purely because it has LAN. I will 100% eventually buy this game on steam as well, just because I want to support them. I bought DST on steam purely becuase it has LAN (wish they also were on gog). I always support LAN and Hotseat games.

[Merlink]

Hi everyone, I'm trying to do it but can't. I don't understand the Reddit post... How to "start the server" with -nosteam? I already started the game with that, but how to do it with the server? I'm "starting the server" from the "Host" option of the menu, but don't know how to add the -nosteam to it.

[Shady Allie]

Originally posted by Merlink:

Hi everyone, I'm trying to do it but can't. I don't understand the Reddit post... How to "start the server" with -nosteam? I already started the game with that, but how to do it with the server? I'm "starting the server" from the "Host" option of the menu, but don't know how to add the -nosteam to it.

Are you running the dedicated server?

EDIT:
there are two bat files inside the folder.
drill down in your files to get to your steamapps/common/Project Zomboid Dedicated Server/

in there, find the file

StartServer64_nosteam.bat

run that one.

I might be mis-reading your post. ignore me if you want...

[Merlink]

Thanks for your answer. I didn't know the existence of those files at the moment I wrote that question. Although I don't have exactly that file, I have a steamapps/common/ProjectZomboid/ProjectZomboidServer.bat
When I open it, a cmd starts, and runs a server I can join from the game (only with -nosteam on it). I can't make my friends join the server though.

[Merlink]

They can join now :)
Now my problem is that I don't know how to run the specific game we were playing before. When I run that .bat file, it just runs a server I don't know which one is

[woker123]

i have radmin vpn its a lan server emulator it works perfect end im able to host servers with ease with radmin or arma end even the old man of war games so pls show me how to host a lan server so i can try to play it with my frends