Hi, I have Mech Warrior 3, and you can play multiplayer peer to peer. It has the feature where you can either set the hosts ip, or search for games, how do you search for games on DPlay 8?

> how do you search for games
> on DPlay 8

Setting the ''pdpaddrHost'' pointer of IDirectPlay8Peer::EnumHosts() to NULL, your computer will enumerate game hosts on the local subnet (i.e. what''s connected to your local or home router). Beyond that, most games use a provider facility such as GameSpy or MSN GameZone to exchange the list of available game hosts on the entire net.

-cb

And will that just find all the hosted games on a network? or all of the games being hosted on the internet...

> And will that just find all
> the hosted games on a network?

Just the local subnet. If you have a router at home (LinkSys, DLink, etc), then you will only list the computers at home.

For the entire Internet, you need to either buy the SDK of a games provider (MSN, GameSpy, etc), or build your own.

-cb

Thanks alot!