server bandwidth and latency leppie::AllocCPArticle(Generic DFA State Machine for .NET);

Hi I know this does not answer your question, but I hope you know about the problems with ArrayLists. If you dont know these problems, these are what they are. Once you have set up an array to hold a certain number of items, it works fine. When you start increasing the size dynamically, speed drops bigtime, especially if you have large arrays or lots of them. The way it works, is if it can store 10 ints, and you add another 1, it will make a new array, and copy all the items into it, and hopefully delete the old one.

Isn't this something that was fixed in DirectX 9.0a? I was having problems with the IDE even finding the proper files until I installed this new version and then they went away.

have you tried looking into double buffering? or maybe vsynch? i havent done any work with directx, but those two things are prolly what you'll need.. still a newb.. cut me some slack :P -dz

Does it matter how large the .exe file gets? I used to program in DOS and the eventual .exe size was a big consideration. If it doesn't matter with Windows and .NET then embedding them is the way to go. For ease of use. EvilDingo