Why do I need to access Internet when playing on a LAN?

[XyZspineZyX]

My friends and I have bought this game with the idea of playing it co-op over my LAN as we have done with previous Rainbow Six games.

However when trying to launch a LAN game the game just tries to access the CDKey servers online forcing me to connect to the internet.

Are Red Storm going to refund me the phone call charges for every time I have connected to the internet in order to play a LAN game? I dont think so, so instead please tell me WHY I HAVE to connect to the net in order to play a LAN game?

If no explaination or patch is forthcoming then my friends and I will all be returning the game as faulty for a full refund.

[XyZspineZyX]

My friends and I have bought this game with the idea of playing it co-op over my LAN as we have done with previous Rainbow Six games.

However when trying to launch a LAN game the game just tries to access the CDKey servers online forcing me to connect to the internet.

Are Red Storm going to refund me the phone call charges for every time I have connected to the internet in order to play a LAN game? I dont think so, so instead please tell me WHY I HAVE to connect to the net in order to play a LAN game?

If no explaination or patch is forthcoming then my friends and I will all be returning the game as faulty for a full refund.

[XyZspineZyX]

I noticed this too - I have a room full of PCs with no internet access and can't start a game as it wants my code.

Anyone know how?

[XyZspineZyX]

It seems that this is due to the 1.1 patch. Uninstall the game and DONT put the 1.1 patch on and you'll be ok (the 1.1 patch only makes online changes to the game which dont affect LAN games anyway).

[XyZspineZyX]

Ok so to play the game on a LAN I have to uninstall the game, reinstall it then not apply the patch until I want to go back online to play in which case I would need to reinstall the patch again. Then when Im back on my LAN I have to uninstall and reinstall the game, not applying the patch and so on.

Err, doesnt seem acceptable to me, definitely a bug so please sort it out RSE.

[XyZspineZyX]

It's definitely not acceptable.

Regardless, to get the game to work on a LAN and on the Internet, do the following:

Install without adding the patch. Then, you can play Internet with others that do not have the patch installed.

Then, to play LAN games, simply turn off your modem if it is external, or disable your Internet connection via Network Properties if the modem is internal.

Just 'not dialing up' to your ISP is not good enough. You actually have to manually disable your computer's ability to connect.

Pain in the rectum, I know. But fun game just the same.

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[XyZspineZyX]

Try this.

Go to C:\Program Files\Red Storm Entertainment\RavenShield\system
look for the file RavenShield.ini open it with word pad, press f3,
In the find box type bValid that will bring you to the line
m_bValidActivationID=False change False to True, viola

Give that a go.

AuS

[XyZspineZyX]

so when you say "You actually have to manually disable your computer's ability to connect" if you have 56k internal modem then how do you go about doing that? Will it screw up your ability to Dial up your ISP in the future? I'm asking because I get these 40 second freezes every 5 minutes or so when I try a LAN game, but when I tested the LAN (only on the one PC) while I left my 56k ISP online it worked fine.

[XyZspineZyX]

the box that comes up for your cd key just click the X instead of the tick. problem solved.

no need for it to connect to net to check cd key http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

NB : You must have your internet connection unplugged to do this as far as i know.



Message Edited on 08/17/0308:00PM by dave_bido

[XyZspineZyX]

aussgbu wrote:
- Try this.
-
- Go to C:\Program Files\Red Storm
- Entertainment\RavenShield\system
- look for the file RavenShield.ini open it with word
- pad, press f3,
- In the find box type bValid that will bring you to
- the line
- m_bValidActivationID=False change False to True,
- viola
-
- Give that a go.
-
- AuS
-
-

See aussgbu's post, that should do the trick, just remember it you want to go back and play online you have to change it back to False.



Remember this rule. . .

Just because it worked in/on someone else's computer does NOT mean it will work on yours!

Good Hunting!

[XyZspineZyX]

TheCorinthian wrote:
so please sort it out RSE. -
-

this was probably somthing ubi had put there. RSE has been very good about their product, ubi just messes it up. i think if u are playing on a LAN and not w/ anyone outside that it doesn't NEED to connect to the internet, b/c u are not using the internet to play. you could install u'r copy on many computersd(as ubi losses money) but onec u want to play multiplayer, u need a cd key, unless u disable connect to internet.

UBI'l logic is looking very similar to MS's logic at this point. pretty soon UBI products won't be compadible with themselves.

[XyZspineZyX]

Ravenshield has spyware in it too. Download and run Ad Aware 6.0 from Cnet dot com and that should help.

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[XyZspineZyX]

If you play lone wolf or terrorist hunt by yourself it logs onto ubi secretly.

http://www.flatoutpita.com/images/dangersig.jpg

[XyZspineZyX]

TheCorinthian wrote:

-
- Are Red Storm going to refund me the phone call
- charges for every time I have connected to the
- internet in order to play a LAN game? I dont think
- so, so instead please tell me WHY I HAVE to connect
- to the net in order to play a LAN game?
-

No they won't and for future knowledge don't confuse the 2 (Redstorm & Ubisoft) they are 2 completely different companies the latter of the 2 only purchased the "Rights" from Redstorm to write Ravenshield. I will expect the next time a new 3D engine comes out and Redstorm hasn't got a development team that is up to date with the latest game coding, that they will not try to go for the "Bargain Buck" sub-contarctors fresh out of Vanier Colleges "International Correspondance Programming School for the Mentally Handicapped".
Smee

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[XyZspineZyX]

*bump*

[XyZspineZyX]

I gave an answer to this in a fairly similar thread:

http://forums.ubi.com/messages/message_view-topic.asp?name=us_ravenshield_ts&id=zykkz

Bottomline is "DISABLE" your internet connection, press OK a couple of times if it complains and you're on.

[XyZspineZyX]

My friends and I just had a LAN party recently. No internet connection. I had read the post on the Ubi Knowledge Base that mentions going into the ravenshield.ini file and changing a parameter so it wouldn't try to connect to the internet. We all did that and then we could connect to each other's listen servers. However, we ran into another problem.

Whenever we would start up a server, things would run fine for 10 seconds, and then lock up for 5 seconds. This loop would keep happening over and over again. I assumed it was my machine, so I had a friend next to me start the server. Same problem. Eventually, everybody in the room had tried running a server, and it would always run 10 seconds, lock up 5 seconds, run 10 seconds, lock up 5 seconds, over and over. We even set up a dedicated server, and got the same issue.

Has anybody else gotten this problem, or have a fix for it?

Your pal,
a.