If you have checked the racing part of the forum you will know i cannot connect to rengamesonline.com at all.
However i am able to enter the lobby using the rengames.exe which finds itself on the desktop after the installation.
That's neat but can i trick it into leading me straight to the tourney room? As it stands if my ISP doesn't fix the situation i cannot come to the tourney as i cannot find any links to open the tourney room.
Connecting to Rengames
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After a cursory glance I've concluded the FAQ is no help on this problem.
Fila, I haven't heard of being able to log into the lobbys straight via the RenGames.exe - mine when I double-click my desktop shortcut just opens the RenGames website (in my browser) and I have to launch the lobby off the webpage. I wonder what you've got different. My guess is you might have a shortcut that specifies some parameters for the RenGames.exe (I know the lobby can be launched in different modes and connect to different sources using some command line arguments).
I did some snooping into the page source of the RenGames page and found I could read some login and port information from the launch link. Added that to what I know about the command line arguments and did some experimenting...
Okay, I have it. Right-click your shortcut to RenGames.exe (or make a new one) and choose properties. In the Target box you should have something like
"C:\Program Files\RenGames\RenGames.exe"
with possibly some command parameters following it. The parameters go as follows:
UserName,Password,UserID,IP,Port
UserName is your RenGames nick, preceded by rengamesonline://
Eg. rengamesonline://Drive2Survive
Password is a looong hexadecimal string which I assume is your login password encrypted.
Eg. 123456abcdef123456abcdef
UserID is your RenGames user ID number.
Eg. 10721
IP: for RenGames appears to be 3518076274.
Port: This seems to define what game you connect to. The MTM2 Social room is on 3201. The Tourney room is 2202.
To sum up. You want the Target line of your shortcut to look something like this:
To connect to Social room:
"C:\Program Files\RenGames\RenGames.exe" rengamesonline://Drive2Survive,123456abcdef123456abcdef,10721,3518076274,3201
To connect to Tourney room:
"C:\Program Files\RenGames\RenGames.exe" rengamesonline://Drive2Survive,123456abcdef123456abcdef,10721,3518076274,2202
Hopefully you can get the information for your password string and ID number from your existing shortcut that takes you to the social room, and can either modify that shortcut or make a new one to point to the Tourney room port.
For everyone else, if you want to doctor yourselves up a desktop shortcut, visit this page (make sure you're logged in):
http://rengamesonline.com/modules.php?n ... sterTruck2
Then view the page source and a few lines from the top should be something that looks like this:
Get the first three elements (UserName,Password,UserID) from there, and the IP and port numbers from this post (or find them elsewhere in the page source), put into a shortcut as I described and you should be golden.
Fingers crossed. [uhuh] At least its working for me.
Let us know if that works, Fila [tu][td]
Fila, I haven't heard of being able to log into the lobbys straight via the RenGames.exe - mine when I double-click my desktop shortcut just opens the RenGames website (in my browser) and I have to launch the lobby off the webpage. I wonder what you've got different. My guess is you might have a shortcut that specifies some parameters for the RenGames.exe (I know the lobby can be launched in different modes and connect to different sources using some command line arguments).
I did some snooping into the page source of the RenGames page and found I could read some login and port information from the launch link. Added that to what I know about the command line arguments and did some experimenting...
Okay, I have it. Right-click your shortcut to RenGames.exe (or make a new one) and choose properties. In the Target box you should have something like
"C:\Program Files\RenGames\RenGames.exe"
with possibly some command parameters following it. The parameters go as follows:
UserName,Password,UserID,IP,Port
UserName is your RenGames nick, preceded by rengamesonline://
Eg. rengamesonline://Drive2Survive
Password is a looong hexadecimal string which I assume is your login password encrypted.
Eg. 123456abcdef123456abcdef
UserID is your RenGames user ID number.
Eg. 10721
IP: for RenGames appears to be 3518076274.
Port: This seems to define what game you connect to. The MTM2 Social room is on 3201. The Tourney room is 2202.
To sum up. You want the Target line of your shortcut to look something like this:
To connect to Social room:
"C:\Program Files\RenGames\RenGames.exe" rengamesonline://Drive2Survive,123456abcdef123456abcdef,10721,3518076274,3201
To connect to Tourney room:
"C:\Program Files\RenGames\RenGames.exe" rengamesonline://Drive2Survive,123456abcdef123456abcdef,10721,3518076274,2202
Hopefully you can get the information for your password string and ID number from your existing shortcut that takes you to the social room, and can either modify that shortcut or make a new one to point to the Tourney room port.
For everyone else, if you want to doctor yourselves up a desktop shortcut, visit this page (make sure you're logged in):
http://rengamesonline.com/modules.php?n ... sterTruck2
Then view the page source and a few lines from the top should be something that looks like this:
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<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
function openlobby(ip, port){
url = 'rengamesonline://Drive2Survive,123456abcdef123456abcdef,10721,'+ip+','+port+'/';
window.location = url;
}
</SCRIPT>Fingers crossed. [uhuh] At least its working for me.
Let us know if that works, Fila [tu][td]
This is really weird. Now indeed the rengames.exe doesn't work for me anymore 
It just tries to open rengamesonline.com this time.
This is really weird
And i have entered the social lobby multiple times because i tried it over and over again to be sure it is working and it worked. I have no idea what changed between now and then. This is just confusing.
Guess my only solution is to pester my ISP until they fix it but i doubt it will be anytime soon. I am supposed to have 6mbps speed but it won't go over 2.5mbps and the tech guys are incapable of fixing it (and they actually tried to, even came to my house to check all the wires/connections)
I miss my home where i have the same ISP but they seem to know what they are doing. I have the same 6mbps connection at home and it works with 6mbps and when i had trouble accessing sites (it happened there as well) they replied and fixed it in around 2-3 days knowing what the problem was in 5min of calling.
Over here i called them and they were just as confused as i am
It just tries to open rengamesonline.com this time.This is really weird
And i have entered the social lobby multiple times because i tried it over and over again to be sure it is working and it worked. I have no idea what changed between now and then. This is just confusing.Guess my only solution is to pester my ISP until they fix it but i doubt it will be anytime soon. I am supposed to have 6mbps speed but it won't go over 2.5mbps and the tech guys are incapable of fixing it (and they actually tried to, even came to my house to check all the wires/connections)
I miss my home where i have the same ISP but they seem to know what they are doing. I have the same 6mbps connection at home and it works with 6mbps and when i had trouble accessing sites (it happened there as well) they replied and fixed it in around 2-3 days knowing what the problem was in 5min of calling.
Over here i called them and they were just as confused as i am
i hate to say this, but mine does the same thing, and on a few other sites too, including my own forum, but not other forums. And I know what it is, its IE, its a virus that takes over windows completely and your internet. At least thats what it is for me, im getting formated now.
On that note, mysteriously my XP key is no longer valid, I know some people have upgraded to vista, can one of you uh, please give me your key? I'd be extrmely grateful, as it stands, to get a key costs about 500 bucks. If I don't get a key, there is a good chance ill be uh, offline, for about the enxt two years, while just using ye ole computer with its 200mhz of glory, thats enough for the site, cause of the 56k consideration, but not much else.
On that note, mysteriously my XP key is no longer valid, I know some people have upgraded to vista, can one of you uh, please give me your key? I'd be extrmely grateful, as it stands, to get a key costs about 500 bucks. If I don't get a key, there is a good chance ill be uh, offline, for about the enxt two years, while just using ye ole computer with its 200mhz of glory, thats enough for the site, cause of the 56k consideration, but not much else.
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Drive2Survive
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Well you obviously managed to get into the tourney room yesterday, Fila. To what turn of events did we owe the pleasure?
Slayer, perhaps if you call Microsoft and tell them your key doesn't work they will give you another? If you can prove you legally own the product, they should make sure there is no activation issue that prevents you from using it.
Slayer, perhaps if you call Microsoft and tell them your key doesn't work they will give you another? If you can prove you legally own the product, they should make sure there is no activation issue that prevents you from using it.
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