You can get dotnet 3 in windowsupdate. Actually if you load everyting in the site all optionals to you will get dotnet. I havn't found any issue. Everything is going dotnet at some point. If you can do c++ which is a hard thing then go for it. I myself think though we should try staying up with the times. If not we may as well use vb6. At 07:59 a.m. 13/07/2007, you wrote:
>Hi all, >I am throwing this out here for public discussion. Since this effects >all of you as well as me I think this needs public discussion. >As you know I have written two games that requires the Microsoft .Net >Framework and DirectX 9.0C using C#.Net. Well, since choosing this path >I've had nothing but headaches and trouble getting those technologies >working on end user systems. In most cases the game runs, but now and >then there is a system or more that can't simply be fixed, and the games >won't run reliably. I think allot of this boils down to using new >non-standard Microsoft technologies, and these new technologies are not >reliable for mass distribution. At least, not until all of this is >packaged as a core part of Windows. They are a part of Vista, but those >versions are not completely compatible with the versions I am using so >that means the older ones needs installed nullifying the fact they are >there in Vista already. >My current thought is after Montezuma's Revenge is released I should >rewrite the USA Games engine in C++. The reason is I can use core MS >Windows technologies such as the standard Win32 API, and even support >DirectX 8 or 9 with no problems. Since I won't require the .Net libs for >DirectX upgrading to the latest DirectX won't be as necessary as it is >now. The major advantage here will be improved performance, greater >security, and games should in theory just install and run without having >to install a bunch of other things before hand. >Obviously, it is too late for Montezuma's Revenge and STFC 1.0 at this >point, but if we decide to go with say C++ I could write a new engine, >and convert USA Raceway to C++. Therefor, when Raceway is released we >won't have to hastle with figuring out which version of the .Net >framework is installed, if the DirectX managed components are installed, >if they are up to date, and so on. What does everyone think? > > >_______________________________________________ >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. > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.4/897 - Release Date: >11/07/2007 9:57 p.m. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.4/897 - Release Date: 11/07/2007 9:57 p.m. _______________________________________________ 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.
