A few questions

Hi,
i am new to this online only gaming (mostly because i see no point in paying monthly fees) so i have a few technical questions:
First, would i be able to run Guild Wars on a Athlon XP 1,6 ghz, with 768 mb ram, a Geforce 4 TI 4200 64mb? Thats my second pc on which my sister would play. I have a Athlon XP 2,6 ghz with 1,5 gb ram and a Geforce 5900 FX.
Second how much hdd space is required for Guild Wars on full instalation, a bit low on that on my second pc :/.
Third my second pc access the net through my first one, it has no direct connection to the net. So i think the ip address is the same. Does that have any effect on playing at the same time? Or that the company will think i am cheating? Or will it cause no problems at all (we would buy two games).
Fourth i dislike german languege, therefore i would import the game from the UK (much cheaper too) would it have any effect, as maybe that since i am in austria must have a german version in order to can play, or doesnt that matter?

1. both those computers will run the game. and if anyone says your vid card can't hack it, they are wrong.. since I'm playing fine with only 512 MB ram and a GeForce 4 Ti 4200 64mb 4xAGP vid card :P

2. 889 MB (933,134,336 bytes)

thats how big my GW directory on my HD is. But do note that I haven't gotten too far - so I haven't needed to d/l the files for all the other area's in the game yet, just basically the area's from the start of the game (all n00bie area's, and 2 area's post n00bie area). Game box says you need 2 GB tho, so maybe with all files d/l'ed thats about what it'll take - I don't know for sure tho ;/

3. no idea, sorry.
4. no idea either, sorry.

As for the computers, they should be fine to play Guild Wars. There is no way that the two computers will have the same IP and have the first PC acting as the gateway/being networked. An easy fix would be to get a switch or router; they're dirt cheap nowadays anyway for a decent one and easy to configure. I can't remember during the install, but I think there was an option to choose language

Are you saying there's no way they'd have the same IP? or no way he could run 2 different copies because of same IP?

If your saying that there's no way each computer would have the same ip - then your wrong. the public IP address put out for that shared system would be the IP comming via the connection out, which is one the one computer. the 2 diff computer's would have different INTERNAL IP address's - this is to deal with the networking and connection sharing.. but external systems don't EVER see those internal IP's (and if they do, your net security is blown and non-existant and you should get a Firewall very quickly ). All the external systems see if the external IP thats tagged to the net connection - thus the trafic from either computer to all external points would look to be comming from the SAME IP address.

the exteral IP is given to you by your ISP - this is the IP that the GW server's and such see. Once it hits your home system, the external systems can't see/know of your internal IP's since they are deligated by internal controls, while the net connection's ip is deligated by an external control. you have contral of the internal ip, but not the external IP. The IP you get from your ISP is your net connections IP - you could have 1 computer or 100 connected to that connection through the standard router.gateway setup and all the external systems would see if that 1 IP that is associated and tagged to your net connection.

Which is why he's worried he can't play GW on both computer's at the same time, even with 2 legitimate GW copies.

Frankly, thinking about this I don't see why it would caudse a problem. NCSoft would be *IDIOTS* to prevent ppl on same-ip home networks from playing GW at the same time - this would prevent ppl playing from Uni's, work, etc.. and how many ppl share flats/apartments and share their network?

Seriously, I don't see why it wouldn't work - as long as both copies had legitimate CD-Key's of their own, I don't see why they would be prevented from being run/played at the exact same time.. even with the same IP address they'd have (and using a router wouldn't fix this issue, seeing as the external ip that the GW server's would see would stll be the exact same IP... tho it would relieve the stress from he comp acting as gateway for the other....)

Sorry I can't quite explain clearly wat i'm trying to say! *sighs* I know what I want to say, but trying to write it out is a different matter. LOL

but I've been there, done that. And had a home network with 2 flatmates all sharing the 1 connection - we only ever had 1 IP that external systems ever saw. We did play some online games together, and in some of them we had to e-mail the company running the games as they prohibited ppl from same IP from working together / helping each other / etc to stop abuse of "multies" .. all because our external ip they saw was the exact samw and would see us as "multies".. heh.

PS. Is there a way to share the same bnet connection and make it seem to external systems (ie say GW server's), that each system on the home network has it's own external IP (which is different to the internal IP used in the network...)? I'll be honest in that i have no idea if it's possible or not.. and likely it is possible if you have the right equipment and knowledge .. wich most ppl who setup home networks wouldn't know of or have access to anyways

Yes, there is an option to select the language durning install.

Thanks for the answers.

And well the question is, does that mean that only the install process is in that languege or the game is then in that languege?