willybeef 0 Posted May 29, 2006 hey iv always wonderd whats diff between direct play and sockets, iv never really use direct play but i dont know what it is lol !. if somebody could tell me i would be greatful thx Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
l etranger 5 Posted June 3, 2006 Directplay use TCP/IP protocol to handle OFP (old slow method), Sockets is the UDP resistance (newly) optimized netcode. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Smartti 1 Posted June 3, 2006 DirectPlay is/was part of Microsoft's DirectX. In case of OFP, DirectPlay allows the use of OFP's built-in voice communication system. About possible differences in performance, I don't know. I've been fine with DP server for years now. It works good enough. Of course sockets is the choice for non-windows server platforms. I also think that both DP and sockets use UDP Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
