Gamespy Arcade Software, Servers and voice chat

[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. Maybe I misread it. 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. Also found that the clicking noise that I get on my speakers when I click on a link was gone. I had to go into the control panel and restore my windows sounds back to the default setting. I like to know that when I left click on a link in Windows Explorer a Clicking sound is heard on my speakers. That lets me know that the click worked. If I don't hear the click noise (windows default) then I somethings will click the link again and get two versions of a web site showing on my desktop.

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

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.

Maybe if I know that many others will be using it I too will be tempted to try it.

Anybody using it now or intend to use gamespy servers in the future?

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?