Originally posted by BodwadUK
I hit one major problem in direct play and that was ILLEGAL OPERATIONS when a call is incorrect.
Write bad code and bad things could happen I have never gotten an illegal operation error with DirectPlay and I've been using it for years.
Originally posted by BodwadUK
Thats why i define it as difficult along with the fact there is very little help out there for directplay.
Try the tutorials here - http://rookscape.com/vbgaming/ and here - http://www.directx4vb.com/ There's plenty of resources out there if you just look.

Originally posted by BodwadUK
Winsock is easier face it!!
At the expense of power and the need to write more code to do things.