GPL & cable modem (Road Runner)

Hello all, I FINALLY purchased GPL and it's great. But, when I go to multiplayer, it only lists my two COM ports and not TCP/IP to connect with. I'm still a little confused with the core.ini stuff I've been reading about. So if anyone would like to explain it to me like I'm a 3 year old :), I would greatly appreciate it. BTW, my cable modem is bi-directional, if that helps at all. Thanks, Aaron McCarthy

Hi Aaron, Let me give it a shot. 1. Run Notepad by choosing: START / Programs / Accessories / Notepad 2. Type the following: [communications] alternate_ip_addr_lookup=1 3. Choose FILE | SAVE AS.... 4. Locate your GPL folder (where the GPL.EXE programs is) 5. For the filename type: core.ini 6. Press SAVE. 7. Start GPL -- you should now see a TCP-IP option when choosing "Connect VIA..." 8. One thing to notice is that when joining a race on VROC, after choosing the players entry from the address book, you will need to re-select the TCP-IP address that you want to use as your connection. Basically, if you cannot connect to the game, choose the other TCP-IP address. One is your local IP address and the other is your Internet IP address. You want to choose your internet IP address. Did that work? :-) You can get more information from the GPL/readme.txt file about cable modems. Jason.

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> Hello all, > I FINALLY purchased GPL and it's great. But, when I go to multiplayer, it > only lists my two COM ports and not TCP/IP to connect with. I'm still a > little confused with the core.ini stuff I've been reading about. So if > anyone would like to explain it to me like I'm a 3 year old :), I would > greatly appreciate it. BTW, my cable modem is bi-directional, if that helps > at all. > Thanks, > Aaron McCarthy

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modems. Thanks Jason, But I've read the vague readme and did what is says and still no TCP/IP option in the Multiplayer menu only COM 1 and COM 2 support. Not sure what's going on but it's one odd way to code multiplayer. Hope N3 is a little more improved. Judging Papy's past, it will be. Aaron

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> >Let me give it a shot. > >1. Run Notepad by choosing: START / Programs / Accessories / Notepad > >2. Type the following: > > [communications] > > alternate_ip_addr_lookup=1 > >3. Choose FILE | SAVE AS.... > >4. Locate your GPL folder (where the GPL.EXE programs is) > >5. For the filename type: core.ini > >6. Press SAVE. > >7. Start GPL -- you should now see a TCP-IP option when choosing "Connect > >VIA..." > >8. One thing to notice is that when joining a race on VROC, after choosing > the > >players entry from the address book, you will need to re-select the TCP-IP > >address that you want to use as your connection. Basically, if you cannot > >connect to the game, choose the other TCP-IP address. One is your local IP > >address and the other is your Internet IP address. You want to choose your > >internet IP address. > >Did that work? :-) > >You can get more information from the GPL/readme.txt file about cable > modems. > Thanks Jason, But I've read the vague readme and did what is says and still > no TCP/IP option in the Multiplayer menu only COM 1 and COM 2 support. > Not sure what's going on but it's one odd way to code multiplayer. Hope N3 > is a little more improved. Judging Papy's past, it will be. > Aaron

Do as he told you, and it will work. I have a cable modem, did this modification to the "core.ini" file and it worked! Philster

Aaron, I too had this problem when I first got Roadrunner. You still have to follow the core.ini suggestion but here's what made it work for me: 1. In control panel/ network settings you should only have Client for Microsoft Networks, your network card, and TCP/IP. Get rid of Netbui and everything else in there. You don't need it. 2. Make sure nothing is overclocked, especially your voodoo2 if you have one. 3. Uninstall/ reinstall GPL and try it out. This first part got me somewhere but I still had a problem until I........ 4. Try changing the physical positions of your PCI cards so that the voodoo card and network card are as far apart as possible. The PCI sound card (if that's what you have) half way in between. After this everything was back to normal (but way better). I know it sounds weird but I had this same situation and that's what worked for me. Steve