KCP VS RakNet

Compare KCP vs RakNet and see what are their differences.

KCP

:zap: KCP - A Fast and Reliable ARQ Protocol (by skywind3000)

RakNet

RakNet is a cross platform, open source, C++ networking engine for game programmers. (by facebookarchive)
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KCP RakNet
6 6
14,497 3,029
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4.0 0.0
9 months ago over 2 years ago
C HTML
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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KCP

Posts with mentions or reviews of KCP. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-30.

RakNet

Posts with mentions or reviews of RakNet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-11.
  • Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard
    3 projects | /r/gaming | 11 Jul 2023
    Halo was mostly all about single player and early multiplayer/local multiplayer but their online netcode has sucked since Blood Gulch. Lots of games do networking horribly, I have been in gamedev making networking and I hate most of what people do. The ones that have a clean natting, based on enet style reliable UDP channels, RakNet style punch are better (RakNet was good until Facebook bought it). It has come a long way but also fallen back. Valve source netcode (on github) is probably the best and you can check it out here. They started with the best in Quake networking, then to Source.
  • Multiplayer Networking Solutions
    19 projects | /r/gamedev | 6 Oct 2022
    Raknet No longer worked on but from what I've read, it's complete and working. It has been used in many games between 2000 - 2010
  • Making a multiplayer server
    4 projects | /r/VoxelGameDev | 6 Jun 2022
    Inconsistencies can be prevented by ensuring the server handles all operations and does so in a given order, then transmits the results to clients. I wrote a little about this for my game Avoyd a long while ago. Clients (including a client running the server) send an edit request via reliable ordered UDP (e.g. using Enet, Raknet, Steam Networking etc.) and the server places these in a single queue then performs the edits and sends the results back also using reliable ordered UDP.
  • [Discussion] What are some old C++ open source projects you wish were still active?
    10 projects | /r/cpp | 5 Apr 2022
    RakNet. It's been forked but still not that active.
  • I want to make a game for Linux. Where do I even start?
    14 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 20 Nov 2021
    RakNet (UDP network library)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing KCP and RakNet you can also consider the following projects:

Simple-WebSocket-Server

ENet-CSharp - Reliable UDP networking library

netcode.io - A protocol for secure client/server connections over UDP

µWebSockets - Simple, secure & standards compliant web server for the most demanding of applications

C++ REST SDK - The C++ REST SDK is a Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. This project aims to help C++ developers connect to and interact with services.

Muduo - Event-driven network library for multi-threaded Linux server in C++11

POCO - The POCO C++ Libraries are powerful cross-platform C++ libraries for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile, IoT, and embedded systems.

evpp - A modern C++ network library for developing high performance network services in TCP/UDP/HTTP protocols.

yojimbo - A network library for client/server games written in C++

WebSocket++ - C++ websocket client/server library