Hi guys i am quite new to network programming (i have ust finished my CSocket implementation etcetc...) - so i have a little question: Is windows'' socket API enough fast for games like Counterstrike? (I was trying to write something like ping and it hadn''t seemed very fast) OR is there some other and a little faster/cleaner method how to implement network under windows? it is just a performance question... thank you exa_einstein

Winsock is about as low level as you can get when doing network programming for Windows.

WinSock is the fastest available. Counterstrike uses it. If you have performance problems, the problem is not in WinSock.

The only other alternative is DirectPlay. If you care about performance, it''s common to not want to use DirectPlay.

Yes, winsock is a very good solution. I highly recommend raw winsock. Stay away from MFC and other winsock wrapper classes.

Kuphryn

And for the love of god stay away from async sockets (WSASelect, WSASend, etc)

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Original post by Evil Steve
And for the love of god stay away from async sockets (WSASelect, WSASend, etc)

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I think you''re confused. There''s no such function as WSASelect() and WSASend() adds functionality for overlapped, not asynchronous sockets.

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Original post by SiCrane

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Original post by Evil Steve
And for the love of god stay away from async sockets (WSASelect, WSASend, etc)

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I think you''re confused. There''s no such function as WSASelect() and WSASend() adds functionality for overlapped, not asynchronous sockets.

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Whoops, thats what i mean