RACE 07 dedicated server help

[Yves Larose]

hi guys, i just installed the race 07 dedicate server and tried it but when i'm trying to connect it says that it can't connect so i was wondering if someone could help me please

thanks in advance

[Sascha Henken]

Moved into the correct forum section

[Andrew Evans]

Originally Posted by Yves Larose

hi guys, i just installed the race 07 dedicate server and tried it but when i'm trying to connect it says that it can't connect so i was wondering if someone could help me please

thanks in advance

do you show has having a ping of 5000 on the server list?
firewall is blocking it, in that case...

[Ben Tusting]

I Can set up a dedicated server and people can join but I can't seem to join why is this?

[Neil Gault]

Originally Posted by Ben Tusting

I Can set up a dedicated server and people can join but I can't seem to join why is this?

are you trying to run the server and join it from the same ip address?

[Ben Tusting]

Yep and I'm guessing i can't do that ?

[Neil Gault]

Originally Posted by Ben Tusting

Yep and I'm guessing i can't do that ?

you should be able to if you change the port range in the server ini file, in gtr2 there was a help file to show you how to do it but i do not think there is anything similar for race07 but a quick look at the ini file and it looks like you would have to change these lines
PortRangeBegin=0
PortRangeEnd=0

afraid i can not test as i have my dedicated server installed on another pc with a different ip address so have never had this problem.

[Ben Tusting]

Originally Posted by Neil Gault

but a quick look at the ini file and it looks like you would have to change these lines
PortRangeBegin=0
PortRangeEnd=0

So would i have to change it to that or it needs to be changed from that?

[David Lemon]

I've tried this and spent hours in the router trying to get it to work which i eventually did but any more than 2 or 3 cars and the lag was unbearable, you need a lot of bandwidth to run a decent amount of cars for what it's worth I turned off the firewall on the pc and set up a DMZ in the router

[Oliver Amos]

Originally Posted by Neil Gault

you should be able to if you change the port range in the server ini file, in gtr2 there was a help file to show you how to do it but i do not think there is anything similar for race07 but a quick look at the ini file and it looks like you would have to change these lines
PortRangeBegin=0
PortRangeEnd=0

afraid i can not test as i have my dedicated server installed on another pc with a different ip address so have never had this problem.

You don't need to. I run a race07 online dedi server from my pc regularly and can connect to it without any changes.

[David Lemon]

The problem is normally in the router!

[James Yates]

Originally Posted by David Lemon

The problem is normally in the router!

Exactly - its to do with port forwarding

Click this and find your router

[Neil Gault]

the standard ports are TCP+UDP 48942 – 48957 and UDP 26900-26907 so you need to change it from that.
i am not sure if you have to specify which ports within the ini file or if it will accept changing it to say +1
For gtr2 you could specify the ports used within your plr file but with race07 it is slightly different.

[Neil Gault]

Originally Posted by David Lemon

The problem is normally in the router!

yes but if you have 2 systems sitting behind a router both trying to use the same ports then what system does the router forward the data too?
This is why one system needs to change the ports used.

[Dietmar Auferkorte]

Do I need a second license for the server, especially when I run it on a separate PC?

[Ben Tusting]

I have opened all of the necessary ports along with the steam ports but it's still doesn't work

[Dietmar Auferkorte]

Just tried it now myself.

• Started the Server (on same PC running Vista)
• Windows asked me whether to block/unblock
• I said 'unblock'
• Started client, went to LAN Game
• Found my server
• Connected
• Raced

[Stuart Thomson]

I had exactly the same experience as Dietmar, my total amount of firewall/router config/turmoil was clicking on "Unblock"

[Dietmar Auferkorte]

Maybe to add one thing (as I just repeated the same under XP, due to my crashing Vista), when I defined my server I unchecked on the first page the Internet Server option.

[Richard Bunschoten]

if i start dedicated_server.exe in steam folder , it gives me an error saying it doesnt find steam.dll

do i need to start this some other way ..??

i want to practice the wet race ..

[Richard Bunschoten]

allready works ...

[Hightower]

Originally Posted by Ben Tusting

I have opened all of the necessary ports along with the steam ports but it's still doesn't work

Well, there is two things here. In order to setup a dedicated server locally, you need to open ports in the firewall otherwice people will get 5000 in ping. If you do that according to the book you should be able to start a dedicated server on the same IP and connect to that using LAN connection.

But if you want to have the dedicated server on another computer then there is a problem. To solve that you need to setup the dedicated server to use the ports (in DedicatedServer.ini) used by Race in LAN mode like this:
PortRangeBegin=48959
PortRangeEnd=48973
Then you will be able to connect from the same LAN (with the dedicated server in internet mode) or using Hamachi. If you want people from the outside to connect, then you need to use the port range above in the firewall instead of the standard ones. The new port range apperantly is communicated to the internet Lobby.
The dedicated server should then be started in Internet mode.

It took some hours to figure that out!

/Henrik Ossiansson

[Matt Alpeter]

Originally Posted by Richard Bunschoten

if i start dedicated_server.exe in steam folder , it gives me an error saying it doesnt find steam.dll

do i need to start this some other way ..??

i want to practice the wet race ..

i think you already figured it out, but you must start it from the tools tab in steam. however, i have a server up (called Team -HK-) running the wet track 24/7 and RD just put up a server.