Am currently making a multiplayer game using directPlay. When a player moves using the arrow keys a message is sent to the server which forwards this message to all other player telling them the new position of the player. When the other players receive this message the player model of the other player is moved by the required amount and the screen rerendered. This all worked fine when using windows api to handle keyboard input. I then needed to use diretInput so as to be able to have multiple key presses and smoother results. After doing this if one player moves around none of the others can move while that player has the keys pressed. When they stop moving the first player to press the keys can move and no one else can. Could it be to do with the cooperative level of directinput, ive currently got it set to : SetCooperativeLevel(hWnd, DISCL_FOREGROUND | DISCL_NONEXCLUSIVE); Does anyone else have any suggestions on how to resolve this problem? Thanks [edited by - Paul7 on April 3, 2004 3:06:50 PM]

yeah i realise that they`re independant of each other. Dont no how can be flooding the server, all i`m sending to it is the players position (a vector) and it works fine when using windows api keyboard response. Does using directinput cause a lot more messages to be sent to the server? Dont see y it wouldnt be able to cope with it though if thats the case? If it was that is there any way to reduce the number of messages sent?

Yeah I see what you mean now. Have fixed the problem by only calling the direct input function say 50 times a second, or something like that. It works fine now, thanks alot.