Under the hood, DirectPlay is built on the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) to allow it speedy communication with other DirectPlay applications. It uses TCP and UDP ports 2300 to … See more

DirectPlay was traditionally one of the components of DirectX that received less attention, but for DirectX version 8 it received a major overhaul and became a relatively lightweight networking library. However, as part of Microsoft's unveiling of XNA See more

• Microsoft's DirectPlay documentation
• Microsoft DirectX 9 The last SDK to ship with DirectPlay headers and libraries.
Some alternative libraries which serve the same purpose as DirectPlay
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• The primary interfaces (methods of access) for DirectPlay are:
• Secondary interfaces are: See more

DirectPlay Voice was introduced in Windows Me as part of DirectX 7.1 for multiplayer games. It is a voice communications, recording and playback API that allows … See more

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