How to play Re-Volt online?

Where to play Re-Volt online?

RVHouse is the online meeting place for racing multi-player Re-Volt. Download RVHouse.

How to use RVHouse?

RVHouse is quite simple to use. In short you create or join a room. Everyone in the room will take part in the Re-Volt game when Re-Volt is started from RV House. For more information about using RVHouse go to the RVHouse guide.

I get a "CRC checksum error" when Re-Volt is launched from RV House

This happens at least with Windows XP. It usually doesn't prevent Re-Volt from launching, just click the error message away. But to prevent the error message from happening at all you must do following:

• Find your Re-Volt executable "revolt.exe".
• Right click on it and choose the properties tab.
• Choose "Windows98 compatibility mode".

With this mode enabled the error should not occur anymore.

How to play Re-Volt in Windows Vista? (Can't flip buffers error message)

In Windows Vista you might get the error message "Can't flip buffers". To solve this you have to run Re-Volt with the -sli command.

Re-Volt in Windows Vista for single player

• Find your Re-Volt executable "revolt.exe".
• Right click on it and choose the shortcut tab.
• Add "-sli" in the target url.

Re-Volt in Windows Vista for multi-player (using RVHouse)

RVHouse does not use your ReVolt shortcut for launching Re-Volt. Therefore the method above does not work in RVHouse, but you have to edit the Revolt registry settings:

• Click the Vista start button and choose "Run".
• Type "regedit" and hit enter.
• Hit CTRL-F to open the search window and search for "Re-Volt" until you get a result that looks like the image below.
• In the CommandLine field enter "-sli".
• Save and exit the Register Editor

NOTE: In some systems you have to do this procedure every time you launch Re-Volt. To make this easier you can make an export of the register settings by choosing "File", "Export" and save the register file. Before playing ReVolt you have run the .reg file.

I can't host or join multiplayer games in RVHouse (Can't connect to lobby error message)

If you have a router and/or firewall you must configure them so that you can use RV House and play Re-Volt online. If you have both a router and a firewall, apply both instructions.

Setup Router

If you have a router you must forward some ports to your own computer. From your router configuration try finding something named similarly to "Port Forwarding". Then configure there it to forward the ports according to the following table:

Protocol	Source Ports	Target Ports	From IP	To IP
TCP	2301,47624	2301,47624	ALL	Your IP
UDP	2300-2400	2300-2400	ALL	Your IP

Also see the "Forwarding" section on portforward.com if you have trouble finding the right settings for your router. You can for example select eDonkey application and by similar procedure apply the settings outlined above to your router.

Setup Firewall

The easiest thing to do is to set firewall to allow making all connections for Re-Volt and RV House. If that is not possible for some reason, here is how you should setup the ports:

Protocol	Ports	Source/Target	Direction
UDP/TCP	ALL	Target	out
UDP	2300-2400	Source/Target	in/out
TCP	47624	Source/Target	in/out

If you are still having problems you might have a look at the ReVolt help documents.