Hi,
No, but it makes 'Wild Metal Country' not crash at start-up :-)
Fine. And it's easier to copy these dlls than the dlls + the registry entries :-)
After, if I continue to be motivated to hack on DPlay, I may take a shot at implementing a built-in version of 'dpwsockx.dll' (I never touched any Windows networking programming so it could be nice to change a bit).
Have a lot of fun!
Stefan