PlaySound will conflict with DSound if I''m in exclusive mode on the DSound, yes, but sound is one of the last things I plug in, and if I need the PlaySound debugging technique at that point, I have a call in my DSound wrapper that does more or less the same thing.

I don''t use MessageBox because most of the time when I use this, I''m setting up DDraw and I don''t have FlipToGDI set up yet, so there''s no guarantee I''ll get to see my spiffy message box.

-fel