Does anyone have a great wealth of Networking articles or tutorials? I have been to and done all of the major ones, but any other ones that people have would be nice.. Right now I am working on a simple Multiplayer Pong game with UDP and having some problems.. It works great with TCP/IP but UDP ends up with problems happening here and there. So I figured I am in need of some more tuts or articles especially those that focus on UDP. Thanks in advance

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Original post by netflow It works great with TCP/IP but UDP ends up with problems happening here and there.

what are the problems? you are properly handling lost packets, yes? UDP isn't guaranteed delivery, so if your code is assuming that the packets will get there then that's your error. typically games will use a combination of UDP & TCP for non-critical and critical data, respectively. If you're sending everything via UDP then you have to expect hiccups.

-me

I highly recommend Network Programming for Microsoft Windows, Second Edition by Anthony Jones and Jim Ohmund.

Kuphryn

ah thanks a bunch.. I Will look it up

got me started
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1059.asp