Our ReVolt Pub

I would like to point out a bug, where in German language, instead of the players' names, it always writes just an "r".
Like: "r has joined the room" (of course in german)


EDIT: Another one: my RVHouse stops working (crashes) quite frequently. I simply get an error message: The program stopped working.

Ahoy!
I guess the server is down again

Kipy @ Mar 19 2014, 02:34 PM wrote: Ahoy!
I guess the server is down again

Sorry for the long response time .

The server was down (no idea why), but I've restarted it.

arto @ Mar 23 2014, 10:02 PM wrote:

Kipy @ Mar 19 2014, 02:34 PM wrote: Ahoy!
I guess the server is down again 

Sorry for the long response time .

The server was down (no idea why), but I've restarted it.

Don't worry, we are happy that you fixed it, thank you

A simple question.
It is a common issue for me, that I log in to house and it kicks me in the first minute always.. why?

ARTO, can u make abc blacklist again? he still doing useless hackings again with name Juest

Kipy: Screw you.
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Oh Hello there
it's RST, yay

Arto, please ,ban this guy forever

this is going deja vu all over

Bring Platform to the Martix

Seriously, Abc... again?
I beleived you you weren't that pathetic little child anymore, who found a more anonym and technical way to express his "inner beauty", than torturing little animals.
Guess I was wrong...

Balint12 @ May 17 2014, 05:23 AM wrote: Seriously, Abc... again?
I beleived you you weren't that pathetic little child anymore, who found a more anonym and technical way to express his "inner beauty", than torturing little animals.
Guess I was wrong... 

LMAO. Screw you, mfer. you're just in my DDoS blacklist.


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EDIT: man, this sucks, now i have to keep open rvhouse all the time, zach somehow "fixed" rvhouse authentication in a way i cant access (maybe i could without being online or "blacklisting" login server)

Mladen's been helping me out with this port-forwarding ordeal, but I don't always get online at the same time he does - so I'm kinda lost sometimes and have to rely on shitty web tutorials. Not to mention our modems aren't the same, there's obvious differences in what he tries to guide me and what I actually find.

So I've print-screened (ugh, is that even a word?) some parts of my little odyssey so you guys can tell me if I'm doing stuff the right way (and if I'm not, correct me )

And now I get this?... this is ridiculous, no wonder few people dare to go through with playing online. *facepalm*



Help anyone? This is seriously watering me off, ugh.

RV House and its bugs.. a neverending story. I'll give you a hand.

Phantom helped me out with this, and it turns out the ports needed are 2300-2400 TCP/UDP and 47624 TCP/UDP. Just though I'd highlight that because like me, many players must have been portforwarding the wrong ports all this time.

As it stands now, the RV House's router/firewall help page is obsolete and outdated. This should be fixed to prevent new and old players alike from configuring their ports the wrong way...

I've been part of this community ever since the original game came out, almost 15 years ago (not always actively in the forums), and only now I gathered willpower to go through this ordeal of portforwarding and all that stuff. This scares away potential new online players, sadly enough - if a newcomer doesn't even know how many versions of the game there are, how to you expect them to have the hard work of configuring ports to play online? Not everyone knows a lot about computers, especially young kids who are rediscovering this awesome game, much like we discovered it when we were little.

This must have been asked countless times, but isn't there a better method to connect and get RV House working and doing everything manually?...

No, RVHouse needs a full rewrite, currently it uses the "old" way, standard ports and DirectPlay loobies, P2P library sucks and it still uses registry data to detect the game, and the ports info are in RVR Help, RVH "firewall help" and even in a MS page (DirectPlay ports one).

please read my guide also, and rvr help got that info too

Agree that it needs a full rewrite. Or at least an update to fix bugs. Otherwise it is condemned to demise in its current state. It's no surprise that fewer and fewer people use RV House these days. I've been using GameRanger for a long time now to play with my group of friends and it's absolutely easy to set things up there. The only thing new players need is the 1.2 patch and they're ready to play, nothing else.

New people care about simplicity, if it's not simple they just won't play online and they are right, and sometimes it looks like the admins in this community don't see this or don't agree with the concept. Setting things up via RV House is nothing but a pain in the bottom. If you're not a developer or if you don't have a good friend that has the time and advanced knowledge to help you, you can just forget about playing online via RV House. Now that the new Re-Volt Zone registration is also restricting many new people to create accounts, RV House looks like a small bunker with a death wish.

Hey Phantom, little help here: this window pops open sometimes (not in the modem you configured though - well at least yet).



Is there something wrong or is it just RV House being buggy?

MightyCucumber @ Oct 13 2014, 02:24 PM wrote: Hey Phantom, little help here: this window pops open sometimes (not in the modem you configured though - well at least yet).



Is there something wrong or is it just RV House being buggy?

You're behind a NAT and thus can't access P2P, that is decentralized network, it pops because of unable to connect, probably ISP doesn't allow p2p (peer to peer)
Did you allow RVH in firewall?

Central server down. When was it supposed to die definitely? Next year?

Where's Benny and Arto!?

Finally the sh**thouse dies!

Phantom @ Dec 19 2014, 10:09 PM wrote: Central server down. When was it supposed to die definitely? Next year?

Up again.

Kipy @ May 15 2014, 05:53 PM wrote: ARTO, can u make abc blacklist again? he still doing useless hackings again with name Juest

Sure if it's necessary. Sorry I didn't notice this before. But if he's still a problem it can be done again.

Hey, it's nice to see you here again arto. Do you want still make an update on rvhouse or is there nothing what you can make better?

Btw, merry christmas arto!

arto @ Dec 24 2014, 06:44 PM wrote:

Kipy @ May 15 2014, 05:53 PM wrote: ARTO, can u make abc blacklist again? he still doing useless hackings again with name Juest 

Sure if it's necessary. Sorry I didn't notice this before. But if he's still a problem it can be done again.

Don't do that, he seems ok now (yet)

Thanks for turning the server up again and merry christmas.

May I ask what are your current thoughts about RV House? Should we wait for a peaceful demise or wait for an update?

Hey, not to seem ungrateful (being that I just made this account now for the purpose of posting this) but the RVZT server is down again... I recently had a wave of nostalgia come over me for some LAN re-volt and would like to spark that back up if possible.

out of curiosity, is the server having like... funding issues? Is interest dwindling? I'm not sure what to make of the forum's current activity level.

Thanks in advance!

-Asdam

Asdam @ Jan 5 2015, 03:42 AM wrote: Hey, not to seem ungrateful (being that I just made this account now for the purpose of posting this) but the RVZT server is down again... I recently had a wave of nostalgia come over me for some LAN re-volt and would like to spark that back up if possible.

It's running. Anyone else having problems?

RV_Passion @ Dec 24 2014, 07:03 PM wrote: Hey, it's nice to see you here again arto. Do you want still make an update on rvhouse or is there nothing what you can make better?

Btw, merry christmas arto!

I'd like to make an update, but it seems unlikely I have time to dig into it anytime soon

Late merry christmas to everyone and happy revolting new year !

By the way, who owns or has the right to edit rvhouse.revoltzone.net? Arto/Zach/Huki?

Phantom @ Jan 5 2015, 10:53 PM wrote: By the way, who owns or has the right to edit rvhouse.revoltzone.net? Arto/Zach/Huki?

Zach.

In theory I should have rights also, but there was some access rights problems.

arto @ Jan 5 2015, 09:33 AM wrote:

Asdam @ Jan 5 2015, 03:42 AM wrote: Hey, not to seem ungrateful (being that I just made this account now for the purpose of posting this) but the RVZT server is down again... I recently had a wave of nostalgia come over me for some LAN re-volt and would like to spark that back up if possible.

It's running. Anyone else having problems?

No, since you did the reset everything seems to be fine.

The server is down again.
PMs can't work properly, I get empty PMs from rv_house. And players can write after they exit (picture below).

Server still down ...
Is it dead ?

sebr @ 22 Feb 2015, 09:54 AM wrote: Server still down ...
Is it dead ?

^^

The app sucks, P2P sucks, when will this be changed!?

Kipy @ 15 Feb 2015, 11:22 AM wrote: The server is down again.
PMs can't work properly, I get empty PMs from rv_house. And players can write after they exit (picture below).

The VPS went down due to some sort of attack. I have just restarted the server.

If it's not working in within hour or so, let me know and I'll look more into it.

Abc @ 22 Feb 2015, 08:45 PM wrote:The app sucks, P2P sucks, when will this be changed!?

It'll be changed anytime you have time to work on it. The sources for RV House are out there under GPL license so that the Re-Volt community has the future of RV online gaming in its own hands. So please change it to how you like and provide patches.

Much appreciated and thanks in advance!

arto @ 22 Feb 2015, 09:20 PM wrote:

Abc @ 22 Feb 2015, 08:45 PM wrote:The app sucks, P2P sucks, when will this be changed!?

It'll be changed anytime you have time to work on it. [...] So please change it to how you like and provide patches.

+1
Perfect answer, arto. One will soon realize that providing an effort oneself is not as easy as asking someone else to do the job, and that's it is easy to criticize, but hard to act. Oh, and suddenly, one will lower its level of requirement...

If you still want to race when the server is down sebr, just go to GameRanger. People have been playing there a lot and they seem to be moving, so don't need to do anything abc.

Phantom @ 22 Feb 2015, 06:30 PM wrote: If you still want to race when the server is down sebr, just go to GameRanger. People have been playing there a lot and they seem to be moving, so don't need to do anything abc.

+1
GameRanger is a better option than killing self by coding a new rvhouse!

Could some supply some specific details about GameRanger,
ie : Where is it ?
What OS do I need ?
What do I need to do to ensure my system and Network/Router will allow me to play ?
Any other details ?

Thanks.

Manmountain @ 22 Feb 2015, 07:02 PM wrote: Could some supply some specific details about GameRanger,
ie : Where is it ?
What OS do I need ?
What do I need to do to ensure my system and Network/Router will allow me to play ?
Any other details ?

Thanks. 

Download GameRanger and read more about it (homepage)
Any os works
All the information you are looking for is in the site basically.
it supports a wide range of games, runs on Mac and Windows.
Any router with UDP 1600 open just works (it uses a VLAN "hack") having dmz or game ports opened is better and preferred tho but the point is that it requires less than rvhouse or any standard non-NAT aware program.

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arto @ 22 Feb 2015, 05:20 PM wrote:

Abc @ 22 Feb 2015, 08:45 PM wrote:The app sucks, P2P sucks, when will this be changed!?

It'll be changed anytime you have time to work on it. The sources for RV House are out there under GPL license so that the Re-Volt community has the future of RV online gaming in its own hands. So please change it to how you like and provide patches.

Much appreciated and thanks in advance!

Sorry, I still don't have the programming skills yet and not much time for that.

I am still for RVHouse and against GameRanger.

Kipy @ 22 Feb 2015, 07:30 PM wrote: I am still for RVHouse and against GameRanger.

-censored-

Abc @ 22 Feb 2015, 11:33 PM wrote:

Kipy @ 22 Feb 2015, 07:30 PM wrote: I am still for RVHouse and against GameRanger.

-censored-

I'm still for RVHouse (Arto rules )
But as yet untested GameRanger.
I was quite a fan of GameSpy back in the day...

Manmountain @ 22 Feb 2015, 07:37 PM wrote:

Abc @ 22 Feb 2015, 11:33 PM wrote:

Kipy @ 22 Feb 2015, 07:30 PM wrote: I am still for RVHouse and against GameRanger.

-censored-

I'm still for RVHouse (Arto rules )
But as yet untested GameRanger.
I was quite a fan of GameSpy back in the day...

Call gameranger a replacement of GS. GameSpy Arcade Admins have moved to GameRanger and have their full support!

ETA: Back to square one as 6 hours later it is back to not connecting to P2P again on 64 bit version.
That's rather annoying as I thought it was fixed!
The question now is why would it work for a few hours and then quit working again?

I've been having a problem connecting P2P in RV House for a couple of days. A few others have been having the same issue.
I have Win7 32 bit and Win7 64 bit installs. When I boot to the 32 bit system it always connects as it should, but the 64 bit install quit working properly. I can still race in house, but P2P never connects so I don't see everyone in the room.

I checked router, firewall, re-installed house and everything else I could think of but everything seems to be set properly.
What fixed the problem today was copying the full RV House folder from the 32 bit OS and replacing the 64 bit OS RV House folder with it. When I start RVH it fully connects on both systems now.

I then compared each file in the working and non-working RV House folders that I have and the only file that is different is the kadc.ini. My question is what exactly does the kadc.ini file do?

Thanks

I still like House better than GameRanger.

Both work fine for me. However, Ido prefer RV_House. I think it works a bit better.

mmudshark @ 10 Mar 2015, 02:19 AM wrote:I then compared each file in the working and non-working RV House folders that I have and the only file that is different is the kadc.ini.  My question is what exactly does the kadc.ini file do?

P2P Library is called KADC, the ini its the p2p "config", contacts folder is the peer list that kadc reads.

P2P connectivity is very flaky and its more a luck-like system

UPDATE:

I can get back to fully connected on the 64 bit version if I copy the 32 bit RV House folder and overwrite the 64 bit system's RV House.
Close rvhouse, copy the rvhouse folder from the system that works, and paste it and overwrite the files on the non-working system. Reenter house and it's blue.
If I close house and reenter, I'm sure it will be green again though.
Santi started having the same problem and this fix works for him too. I need to find out WHY this is happening and get a permanent solution.