My friends and I are trying to play Cortex Command on split screen using screen sharing, however, the game lags too much for the viewers in order for it to be playable.

We have gone through TeamViewer, TightVNC and I think we tried remote assistance over msn, and on none of them were we able to play the game without FPS issues.

Are there any more optimised screen sharing applications which people have found useful for playing CC on split screen? Or is there any way in which to optimise those applications better?

Thanks in advanced.

Item One: How remote? LAN, or internet?
If LAN, then what kind of network between them?
If internet, what's the lowest bandwidth between the two of you?

Them Two: Are you setting the compression settings yourself?

I've made LAN work "ok" on a pair of macbooks, wifi N and max compression in default built-in VNC.
Keyboard was wonky though.

Over the internet, and I am not sure, I will have to ask them next time.

TightVNC seems to be the only one with compression settings, what does that do/what is that?

Anything over the internet is going to be very slow unless you have a very good connection on both ends.

I think there must be a way to get it working without an amount of lag to make it unplayable.

It hasn't yet been done, and we don't have Onlive yet... If you can do it though, all the more power to you.

Move to Sweden.

Really? That's strange.

Maybe there's some kind of application sharing program which is on the internet somewhere, rather than a screen viewer which includes things all over the desktop and/or the screen, even when selecting a window. I don't know where to look for it, though.

Or some kind of os optimisation programs?

You could try messing with the delta time on CC.

Wait, is the FPS problem going on with the screen capture program, or CC?

I can play it fine, but for the people playing it through the screen sharing application, apparently the fps is barely 1 'or something'.

I don't know what the delta time is.

It affects the speed at which CC calculates stuff, if I'm correct.
But, that wont help you.

I think Tinychat has application sharing

There is also this thing called Elluminate that might work out.

I just tried Tinychat, but it only appears to have screen sharing, rather than application sharing, and it's extremely slow.

Also, is this here - http://www.elluminate.com the elluminate you are talking about? I have to buy that in order to use it for longer than 30 days.

Yeah, well, its a possibility. I'm pretty sure you can get a trial room that you can keep, you just cant have more than 3 people in it. Not sure how it would fair with the actual screen sharing though.

Oh, I see. Well we can only play 3 player on coop anyway, as one team has to be the ai.

I'll try it out.

Is the trial version of elluminate live what I want? Which can be found directly on the main page?

Also, how did you find out about this by the way?

Allright, well, I installed it, and opened a new room; application sharing seems to work but I can't find out how to allow all users access to the application rather than just the host and another person.

Have you tried/used this before?