Certain games can't load dpwsockx.dll despite being present.

[akagemegane]

There are certain games that appear to be finicky with the presence of dpwsockx.dll despite it being in the current game's directory. The only games I know are like this are Fire Fight (1996 game by Chaos Works) and Necrodome (also a 1996 game from Raven Software)

Though in Fire Fight, this log shows the error like this:
1lg_comm(137) net initialized
1ee_netw(301) * Net::open - DirectPlayCreate failure. Error code 80004005

[akagemegane]

The shareware builds here if needed :
https://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Fire_Fight.html
https://archive.org/details/necro_sw

[solemnwarning]

What steps are you going through to set these games up?

Fire Fight silently crashes when I try launching the multiplayer mode and Necrodome won't start due to dplay.dll not being available in Windows 10.

[akagemegane]

What steps are you going through to set these games up?

Fire Fight silently crashes when I try launching the multiplayer mode and Necrodome won't start due to dplay.dll not being available in Windows 10.

Should mention, I recall getting around that when using DxWnd for Firefight.

Also odd about Necrodome because it worked before. I recall renaming dplayx.dll to dplay.dll fixed it?