VROC and XP, no race list, help

I've just gotten a machine with XP, and am trying to get VROC working. Now first I've got another machine about 2 feet from me, running WinME. It is running VROC just fine, and hosting a race right now. Both are behind a router, which is working pretty well (only 2 guys connected but... its working). The XP machine's version of VROC is configured just like the other one. I've run the ip fix, and compared both ini files. On the XP machine I can get in the chat room, just no race list. I've reselected the path to gpl (C:\sierra\gpl\) and even went into to regedit to check. And I can connect across my local lan and race just fine. I just want to race on VROC with my shiny new computer. Intel P4 2.6, 256mb memory Nvidia Ti4200 Dlink 704 rounter configured to be able to host gpl races. Thanks for your attention. Jay

I seem to remember something about deleting a DLL from the VROC folder in order to get it working under WinXP....

"Damien Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:bikau1$a7eup$[email hidden]... > I seem to remember something about deleting a DLL from the VROC folder in > order to get it working under WinXP.... > Riched.dll (Riched32.dll?)or something should be deleted but it will just remove the annoying warning at startup. WinVROC should work if the file is present. It won't run the Win9x version of riched.dll anyway, but use the one that comes with XP. The racelist IP is probably not updated in his WinVROC. Try this little fix: http://www.speedfreek67.fsnet.co.uk/misc/vrocip.exe Jone.

You may need to open certain ports on your router heres the macro i use in vroc GPL now uses a range of 21 consecutive ports ([32766..32786], by default) for client/server communications, and ports 6970 for status broadcast and 6971 for ping responses try that dan "Jay Freels" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:1Te3b.257$[email hidden]...

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> I've just gotten a machine with XP, and am trying to get VROC working. > Now first I've got another machine about 2 feet from me, running WinME. > It is running VROC just fine, and hosting a race right now. > Both are behind a router, which is working pretty well (only 2 guys > connected but... its working). The XP machine's version of VROC is > configured just like the other one. I've run the ip fix, and compared > both ini files. > On the XP machine I can get in the chat room, just no race list. > I've reselected the path to gpl (C:\sierra\gpl\) and even went into to > regedit to check. > And I can connect across my local lan and race just fine. > I just want to race on VROC with my shiny new computer. > > Intel P4 2.6, 256mb memory > Nvidia Ti4200 > Dlink 704 rounter configured to be able to host gpl races. > > Thanks for your attention. > > Jay >

"Jay Freels" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:1Te3b.257$[email hidden]...

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> I've just gotten a machine with XP, and am trying to get VROC working. > Now first I've got another machine about 2 feet from me, running WinME. > It is running VROC just fine, and hosting a race right now. > Both are behind a router, which is working pretty well (only 2 guys > connected but... its working). The XP machine's version of VROC is > configured just like the other one. I've run the ip fix, and compared > both ini files. > On the XP machine I can get in the chat room, just no race list. > I've reselected the path to gpl (C:\sierra\gpl\) and even went into to > regedit to check. > And I can connect across my local lan and race just fine. > I just want to race on VROC with my shiny new computer.

I have a similar setup to you, although with a few more machines behind my router. Firstly, your vroc.ini should read as follows: [VROC] Address=racelist.vroc.net on all your PC's. As already mentioned, on NT/win2k/XP PCs you need to delete or rename RICHED20.DLL to RICHED20.DL_ or similar. Once you have a racelist on your XP machine you still won't be able to join via vroc though. As I understand it this is because you both have the same IP address (your router's) so you need to join locally anyway. hth, Malc.

Malc wrote: > Once you have a racelist on your XP machine you still won't be able to join > via vroc though. As I understand it this is because you both have the same > IP address (your router's) so you need to join locally anyway. > I believe this is what is called server loopback. If your router does not have this feature you cannot join races hosted on your own server through VROC. Ken

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> "Jay Freels" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:1Te3b.257$[email hidden]... > >>I've just gotten a machine with XP, and am trying to get VROC working. >>Now first I've got another machine about 2 feet from me, running WinME. >>It is running VROC just fine, and hosting a race right now. >>Both are behind a router, which is working pretty well (only 2 guys >>connected but... its working). The XP machine's version of VROC is >>configured just like the other one. I've run the ip fix, and compared >>both ini files. >>On the XP machine I can get in the chat room, just no race list. >>I've reselected the path to gpl (C:\sierra\gpl\) and even went into to >>regedit to check. >>And I can connect across my local lan and race just fine. >>I just want to race on VROC with my shiny new computer. > > > I have a similar setup to you, although with a few more machines behind my > router. > > Firstly, your vroc.ini should read as follows: > > [VROC] > Address=racelist.vroc.net > > on all your PC's. As already mentioned, on NT/win2k/XP PCs you need to > delete or rename RICHED20.DLL to RICHED20.DL_ or similar. > > Once you have a racelist on your XP machine you still won't be able to join > via vroc though. As I understand it this is because you both have the same > IP address (your router's) so you need to join locally anyway. > > hth, Malc. > >

Thanks Malc. That worked. Surprisingly, I just changed the vroc.ini from Address=ip address to Address=racelist.vroc.net restarted winvroc and ..... race list. On the WINME machine I'm still using the ipaddress??? Now I can race on VROC from my new, fast machine (and still go slow) yet host from the "other" machine and connect across the local lan. !!!! Just discovered that running the vrocip.exe on the XP machine was NOT working, checked the ME machine and it had racelist.vroc.net as the address. Shoot... Thanks again Jay

"Jay Freels" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:vIn3b.268$[email hidden]... > !!!! Just discovered that running the vrocip.exe on the XP machine was > NOT working, checked the ME machine and it had racelist.vroc.net as the > address. Shoot... > On vroc.net there are listed two vrocip.exe. Just one of them worked for me (speedfreek). Or maybe running it the second time did the trick. :) Jone.