DirectPlay

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming

Started by Kurasu1415 October 21, 2008 10:37 AM

5 comments, last by sirlemonhead 15 years, 6 months ago

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October 21, 2008 10:37 AM

Ok, so I am trying to get a setup where the player will run the client, the client sends basic info to a server, and the server takes more information from a MySQL database. It is similiar to the way an MMO works. I have heard that DirectPlay is horrible, and doesn't work. Would it be better to use DirectPlay, or just go straight Winsock? Thank you to anyone who can help.

sirob

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October 21, 2008 10:52 AM

I'm not sure it doesn't work, but I think it wouldn't be a wise choice to use DPlay. There are plenty off possible compatibility pitfalls, and now that it is no longer supported, they'll be hard to work around.

Also, since it's a more complex system than just WinSock, you have less freedom to do things the way you want to. While this isn't always an advantage, with todays Windows built-in firewall requirements and other issues, getting DirectPlay to play along might be very time consuming, to say the least.

Sirob Yes.» - status: Work-O-Rama.

Kurasu1415

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October 21, 2008 11:02 AM

Ah, I see your point. I was unaware that directPlay was no longer supported. I guess I will just learn Winsock 2 then. Any other suggestions?

Kurasu1415

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October 21, 2008 11:28 AM

Does anyone know what Network APIs are multi-platform? I am wanting to use OpenGL, so it would be nice to have multiplatform network APIs.

Evil Steve

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October 21, 2008 01:45 PM

Quote:Original post by Kurasu1415
Does anyone know what Network APIs are multi-platform? I am wanting to use OpenGL, so it would be nice to have multiplatform network APIs.

Plain sockets are about as cross platform as you can get (Or there's SDL_net, etc, see the Multiplayer and Network Programming Forum FAQ for a list). Basically, you can use WinSock, just avoiding all the WSA*() functions (Except WSAStartup and WSACleanup which you'll need some #ifdefs to make sure you call on Windows systems)