winsock performance

Networking and Multiplayer Programming

Started by exa_einstein April 06, 2004 07:10 AM

5 comments, last by exa_einstein 20 years ago

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April 06, 2004 07:10 AM

Hi guys i am quite new to network programming (i have ust finished my CSocket implementation etcetc...) - so i have a little question: Is windows'' socket API enough fast for games like Counterstrike? (I was trying to write something like ping and it hadn''t seemed very fast

) OR is there some other and a little faster/cleaner method how to implement network under windows? it is just a performance question... thank you exa_einstein

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SiCrane

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April 06, 2004 07:14 AM

Winsock is about as low level as you can get when doing network programming for Windows.

hplus0603

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April 06, 2004 04:11 PM

WinSock is the fastest available. Counterstrike uses it. If you have performance problems, the problem is not in WinSock.

The only other alternative is DirectPlay. If you care about performance, it''s common to not want to use DirectPlay.

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kuphryn

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April 07, 2004 09:48 PM

Yes, winsock is a very good solution. I highly recommend raw winsock. Stay away from MFC and other winsock wrapper classes.

Kuphryn

Evil Steve

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April 08, 2004 07:39 AM

And for the love of god stay away from async sockets (WSASelect, WSASend, etc)

SiCrane

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April 08, 2004 01:23 PM

quote:Original post by Evil Steve
And for the love of god stay away from async sockets (WSASelect, WSASend, etc)

I think you''re confused. There''s no such function as WSASelect() and WSASend() adds functionality for overlapped, not asynchronous sockets.

Evil Steve

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April 08, 2004 07:41 PM

quote:Original post by SiCrane
quote:Original post by Evil Steve
And for the love of god stay away from async sockets (WSASelect, WSASend, etc)

I think you''re confused. There''s no such function as WSASelect() and WSASend() adds functionality for overlapped, not asynchronous sockets.

Whoops, thats what i mean

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