How much of a system hog is setting up a server?

My friend and I are trying to set up a session together. The servers are all good but it is rare that we find servers using cars we want on the tracks we want.

Also there doesn't seem to be a follow friend feature...

My rig is the more powerful but I don't own the server/router. My mate does own his but he is playing on a laptop (it's not bad but not awesome!)

How much performance hit will my mate suffer if he sets up the server on his system? Would it be comparable to something like running Discord? If so, that's not a problem!

Thanks!

 

You probably won't even notice it running tbf.

Obviously if you planned to have 24 people join then you have to make sure your connection has enough upload to handle it, but for a handful of cars it's pretty negligible what resources are used.

Don't forget to forward the appropriate ports in your router / firewall to the correct internal IP of the server!

 

Awesome.

There should be just my mate and I most of the time.

That said, what if we race against, say, 10 other AI drivers as well as the two of us?

 

No such thing, AI cannot be used online.

 

Ah

My mate has setup the server but cannot conect to it. We can see it. I think it might be because we can't select the cars. I can see the car in the server description but I can choose it.

We wondered whether it might be the car we selected and the track. By mate can't get the server to change the track selection. <-- solved! Still can't see cars.

Now can't seem to change the available cars <-- solved! Still can't see cars.

If he connects as LAN he can select a car.

Any idea what he is doing wrong? We are noobs at this.

 

Ignore the above

Solved