directplay8 for game use

[sciophyte]

hi, i've got a server and my client for the game mostly written, when i have two clients on, sometimes it lags and one player doesn't move for a while, then it speeds around the map while the queue catches up or something, what flags should i be using for when sending these messages, i've tried priority low and priority high....i read a page that said use async, but it must be for an older version because the dpnsend_async isn't in the dp objects. any help would be appreciated.

here is how i have it set up

-client sends message.
-server receives message and loops through players to broadcast to everyone (except sender).
-all other clients receieve the positioning information and update the remote players accordingly.

thanks

 

[sciophyte]

nevermind, a silly mistake on my part, i was having the server parse update messages as well, which i wanted the server to have a local copy of all player information but i guess i can do without. just using high priority (all dplay messages unless otherwise specified are async) with a 10ms timeout, this seems to work great now. sorry for wasting the space.