Mirage Source

Guys what i dont understand is we obsess over bits, and bytes so much;

if you look at mainstream online games they spam the hell out of the server and client, they have 32897423987432 more packets sending constantly than MS does; yet we still get some little lags on MS.

Why is this? Simply because its vb6.0?

Well, it's obviously cause vb aint so good. But never the less, the largest part is how it's programmed. I don't encounter any lag in my game now. And nor do the players. Of course it highly depends on how many players you got, but a MS game can for sure carry tons of players as long as you've spent a lot time fixing the source up.

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Winsock plays a part in it too. These mainstream games have custom socket handlers and shit like that.

These commercial game servers also run on 100 different computers with a fiber connection to the internet

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I'd just like to add a little note about this tutorial, if I may.

Any variable declared of a custom Enum type will be 4 bytes.

I even made a quick test program to confirm this.

I had one form, and one module.
In the module, I had this code:

In the form, I had this code:


When I ran the program, I got a message box containing this:


I felt I needed to bring that to light since it was mentioned in the tutorial that it would make the packet ID be 1-2 bytes, but it will indeed be a full four bytes.
Of course, the way to make them 1 or 2 bytes is to have a bunch of constants set as bytes or integers. But by nature, all Enums are of data type Long.

P.S. I believe I may still have a copy of Verrigan's "binary packet" MSE where he tweaked all of the stuff. Granted, I can't check until I can get back to my computer at home.

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Convert it to byte.

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You mean a bunch of byte constants?
Or:

Note: No clue if that'd even compile, I don't feel like pulling up VB6 right now. =x

I'm assuming you mean byte constants... which would be the best way to do it.

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cByte I think it's called.

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Oh, wrap all of the Enum variables with CByte(packetID) before you stick it on the packet.

I get it. =x

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