Remote desktop sharing

[ashwinkm]

Does anyone know how to share cricket 2004 with a friend over netmeeting. I tried sharing it with my friend , so he could see me bowling , but he was only able to hear the commentary and had a blank screen. This would be great fun to do as we would both be able to see the game at the same time but from two different cities.Both of us have cable modems with good bandwidth. I even tried changing the graphics settings to the same on both computers but he is not able to view the video.

 

[Ramz]

something is probably wrong with the connection then..

 

[ashwinkm]

Nothing is wrong with the connection because we are able to share other applications , except cricket 2004

 

[hi ppl]

Cricket 2004 is a game...

 

[Ramz]

^^yep it certainly is

 

[hi ppl]

So it won't work to see it from remote.

 

[SaiSrini]

the person playing probably needs to have another pc (a laptop would be easy to position near the main pc)

 

[Ste]

Another alternative is using ShareItNow - http://www.download.com/ShareItNow/3000-2654_4-10308912.html?tag=lst-0-6 . This seems to work when Mr Koala and I tested and I could see his Cricket 2004 game (in windowed mode). However it was very slow, this could be to do with our internet connections or perhaps the settings of ShareitNow.

Maybe someone else could give it a go?

Ste

 

[Kev]

you could also try something like tightVNC, it's freely downloadable

 

[ashwinkm]

I tried share it now but the game was rather slow despite both of us having a cable modem with good speeds.- i just broadcast my match on webcam and my friend could watch it- its more fun playing with someone else- we can make decisions about bowling changes, field placement etc wish they had online play

 

[SaiSrini]

how does the person who is watching make decisions on the field placements and bowling changes?? you play against the cpu and the cpu makes those decisions

 

[sachinisgod]

he means they can discuss those decisions together and make the necessary changes(field and batting order etc)...he doesnt mean that they played against each other....

 

[ashwinkm]

Yesterday for example I was bowling against England. We had them 5 wickets down but then they started playing well. My friend suggested a bowling change to Yuvraj Singh (Not something we would usually do). It worked immediately and we got a wicket . We then were through to the tail . I wanted to get the tail to face Zaheer . So we changed to the field and allowed Flintoff to get a single and then brought in 3 slips and a gully for Gough and bowled across his stumps and got him out to an edge at gully. We also make combined decisions about bowling changes , field placement , strategy etc. Bowling this way is a lot more fun !!
There is not much to do when you are batting though..