[gameprogrammer] Re: Multiplayer networking advice

[Madison McGaffin <greyhill@gmail.com>]

If you're just starting with C/C++ databases, you might want to take a
look at SQLite ( http://www.sqlite.org/ ).  It's really fast, not hard
to use, and doesn't require an extra daemon/lots of configuration.

On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 21:33 -0500, Taylor Peterson wrote:
> > Would this be for security reasons, to know what IP's have logged in
> > for each account?  If you know how to use a database (or feel like you
> > want to try!) that may be a good place to log the ip address info
> > since it handles the storage in memory / to files issue for you.  You
> > could also store login information and even maybe player data in the
> > database tables, which would give you a neat interface to be able to
> > quickly update or search through your data.
> 
> Well.. I meant to keep a list of IPs to send data too with it.  Like
> whenever data is sent, the server looks at that list then sends the
> data to each IP on that list.  But I see what your saying with
> threads, although my knowledge of threads is a bit limited; I'm heard
> of them but have not really gotten into using them.
> 
> I know databases, but I've never used them with c or c++ only php.
> 
> So I guess I'll go into looking up threads.
> 
> On Jan 27, 2008 8:07 PM, Chris Nystrom <cnystrom@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Jan 27, 2008 6:56 PM, Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> >
> > > TCP/IP vs UDP
> > >
> > > If you don't know the difference between TCP/IP and UDP, TCP/IP is
> > > reliable transmisions while UDP is not necesarily reliable, but is a
> > > lot faster with less overhead.  If you have things in your game that
> > > if the information doesn't get to the player on a rare basis you'd be
> > > ok with it, you might want to check out using UDP for those thing, and
> > > using TCP/IP for the things that really really matter.  You can
> > > squeeze a lot more network preformance out of your game that way.
> >
> > I have found that UDP is a little more difficult to work with. I think
> > going straight to UDP might be a premature optimization. I suggest
> > keeping it simple and start with TCP and then if you have performance
> > issues, try UDP to see if it helps.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
> >
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