any reason why ms are killing direct play and what they will replace it with? It will mean that stuff like topspeed multiplayer will be non playable. Not sure about railracer, or any of the vipgameszone stuff, railracer has its own custom made server. At 10:42 a.m. 24/03/2007, you wrote: >Hi Gary, >I know many people have interest in a net play feature, but I don't >simply have time to work that in to the 1.0 release. >One of the major factors I have elected not to make a net play feature >is that Microsoft is fasing out DirectPlay in DirectX 10 which games >like Topspeed use for network game play, and haven't really given us a >real alternative to it. >So with DirectPlay going out of DirectX it seams I would have to come up >with some custom network code on my own using standard Winsock code >which is a bit more complicated than DirectPlaywas. >I suppose I could come up with a reasonable compromise of using >DirectPlay for an early release and try and conver to Winsock later, but >that might be begging for trouble later on when people go DirectX 10. > >Gary Whittington wrote: >> Hi Tom >> >> AS an old owner of Raceway, that being two copies, I even wait longer if the >> game comes out with a net play feature. >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org >To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >any subscription changes via the web.
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