[austeros]

are the requrements for this as much as for running the game itself? I guess what i am wondering is does it still have the same video requirements, or is there a way to run the server with out a good graphics card.

It might help people respond to your question if you mentioned which game you were thinking of running a dedicated server for specifically.

[austeros]

sorry... unreal tournament, for example.

[IEEE1394]

In a word: no.

I've hosted LAN games of UT using a 9500/120 with 64MB RAM upped to 128 using Virtual Memory.

I had to run UT in software mode at first because the gfx card hasn't got enough VRAM. After that it's sweeeet. I had 4 people playing off it on 10Mb ethernet and getting pings of ~80.

[austeros]

excellent, gives me good reason to upgrade this old imac =)