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Heh, Sweeney's opinion on DirectPlay

civguy · 2001-06-27T20:26:04

In case you haven''t seen this: --------- Mark - Another question for ya. Same thing, Winsock VS DirectPlay8 I don''t know of any games using the new DirectPlay8 (Which was completely rewritten). Any news on that? Does DirectPlay actually use Winsock itself? Tim Sweeney - The answer here is much easier. DirectPlay is a bloated heap of junk kept alive by who-knows-what internal political forces at Microsoft. Everyone wishes they''d just kill the thing. Windows Sockets (the other Microsoft networking API, by the way!) is much better. All of the other DirectX8 components are excellent, though: Direct3D, DirectSound, and DirectInput.

Networking and Multiplayer Programming

Started by civguy April 17, 2001 03:55 PM

33 comments, last by civguy 23 years ago

Anonymous

April 25, 2001 02:37 PM

Thanks for the info, i was misinformed. Well it seems kinda pointless to discuss this much further. People will use what they want or is most convient for them, i suppose.

Later

-ddn

Buster

100

April 25, 2001 02:57 PM

Sweeny must be stupid, or a slacker. DPlay8 is easy and works better than WinSock or CAsyncSocket.

We are using "guaranteed" UDP with DPlay and it''s flawless.

Hey Sweeny, watever dude! Go back to Unix dumb-ass.