[Info-vax] Interesting View of Graphics Driver Futures

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 1:11:03 AM UTC+12, Neil Rieck wrote:
> Back to gaming, the two popular modes are standalone and multiplayer.
> Multiplayer requires low latency which usually means small packets. Packets
> sent to-from the hosting server do not include any video. What is sent are
> packets instructing the client "move character here", "shoot there", etc
> which are then implemented by the client software (think character generator
> ROMS of 40 years ago; one 8-bit byte renders a 6x9 bit pattern).

Easier to cheat...