starbound server question...

I want to renovate one of my laptops into a starbound server,

specs:
1.3 ghz dual core cpu
4 gb of ram
good wifi. well over 200kb(100kb for each player)

2 players
64 bit world with frackin universe installed + a few lesser mods.

how crappily will this run?

 

Don't do much exploration too quickly. It will struggle the most there. The name of the game is minimizing the workload on the system, so stick together whever possible, don't run fly to and run around every planet you see. Keep things small and local to one another so the computer doesn't have to work hard. Don't use wifi, use a cable and plug it into your router.

 

The second player(my brother) likes to live alone, and I live in a huge, busy base... so that's a no?

How about this old acer desktop?
Win Xp 32 bit
3.1 ghz dual core
1.5 gigs of ram
1 gb graphics card.
If possible I'll have to use that laptop to give it wifi because it has no wifi, just gigabit Ethernet.

 

Better CPU, less RAM. Graphics card is irrelevant for servers. Overall worse though. Servers need CPU power and RAM mostly.

 

For two players and fracking universe + busy bases etc, in summary a busy universe but 2 players, will it run rather well with very low amounts of lag?

 

The first one, the laptop, has decent RAM, but a terribly CPU. Laptop CPUs are slow compared to their desktop counterparts.

The latter one, I am guessing is a desktop, has a stronger CPU, but not enough RAM, and as I said, the graphics card is irrelevant.

The point is, the more each of you do, that has to be loaded into memory, so 1.5GB isn't going to cut it, considering Windows XP will eat up at least 800MB on it's own. For myself, playing singleplayer, I can surpass 1.5GB of memory usage for Starbound alone just by loading the game. Give me a large world with a colony and it can easily surpass 2.5GB.

Now, if you go running around and exploring a lot, that will cause a high CPU usage trying to generate the world chunks, which will in turn also drive up memory usage.

Overall, neither system you posted is a good option, but if you really want one, then the laptop would be better, but it won't be very good. And dumping Frakin Universe on that won't help at all.

 

Shoot. Well I'm screwed then. Thanks anyway.

The desktop actually has 2.5 but only 1.5 is usable,

 

You need an SSD if you want to get serious about it. From personal experience, I went from an old HDD to a mid-range SSD and my server sped up significantly.

 

Kinda irrelevant now. He has been banned