Gamespy Arcade Software, Servers and voice chat

[Jamie]

Originally Posted by moose1am

I downloaded the 103 patch and it asked me if I wanted to install game spot now or later. Didn't give me the option to not install it in the text message.

"Install Later" means "Don't install at all"... They're just being clever, that's all. I promise.

I found gamespy nothing but advertising. Way too much information for what I wanted. Looking for something simple to use to play multilayer games. Also I noticed that after installing the gamespy software that my McAfee Virus Scanner went bonkers.
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I noticed that my zone alarm was asked to give the gamespy access to the internet as a SERVER. I don't really like doing that either. Is it necessary to let my computer internet connect act as a SERVER to play DW online?

There are many SpyWare and Firewall applications that aren't especially high on Gamespy Arcade. It's up to you whether you feel that is justified or not, but to me I endorse the product and hope that it will help promote the multi-player aspect of Dangerous Waters.

I suspect that when I installed gamespy software that it made some changes to my sound cards or windows sounds.

I'd be HIGHLY doubtful of that, but that's certainly possible I suppose.

Is anyone really going to use the gamespy servers? I see where you have to sign up to use them. Nothing is free and I don't mind paying a small fee to use them but what I hate is auto renewal fees that many sites use. I find them hard to figure out how to cancel the auto renewal thing. So I am very Leary of signing up on anything these days until I figure out all the details of how to unsubscribe etc. My first visit to the gamespy site was last night and it was late and I was too tired to read all that stuff.

The Ad supported version is entirely FREE. If you don't like the ads (i.e. and your Spyware scanner will not like it, as you discovered) then you can upgrade to the full version for some specified amount. But the ad supported version should have no effect on the performance of your computer, its drivers, or any hardware settings in windows...

It's up to you, of course.