Can't connect to RaceNet? *POST HERE!*

[76561198047094454]

Hi all,

We've been working hard on RaceNet connectivity issues recently. While we've fixed the problem for a lot of you, it seems that some of you are still having problems. This is stopping you connecting to Online Events and Leagues. This is obviously bad.

We're implementing some code right now, to detect anyone that might be having connection issues.

Just in case we don't catch everyone, and partly to verify our checks are working correctly...

*Please post in this thread if you are still unable to connect to RaceNet*

It would also be interesting to know if you actively participate in Online Events and Leagues.

Rest assured that it's very important to us that we get you all online and playing together. If only so that Porkhammer can demolish your times.

Thanks in advance for you help!

The DiRT Team.
<3

[Cinnabun]

Mine is down as of now, right as I was trying to start a League. Can't connect to anything, no Daily, no League. I'm on Windows

[Rot Teufel]

second consecutive day i can't join daily and grab my weekly pay... what the hèll is happening?
Windows

According to https://www.dirtgame.com/events less than 10 people has done the dailies... Dafuq are you doing codie?

[mr. z]

No problems here just now.

[Eagleizer]

Originalmente postado por Rot Teufel:

second consecutive day i can't join daily and grab my weekly pay... what the hèll is happening?
Windows

According to https://www.dirtgame.com/events less than 10 people has done the dailies... Dafuq are you doing codie?

Earlier today it said:

"We're sorry RaceNet is undergoing rutine maintanance but once we've finished tuning the
engine we'll be back on track. Thanks for your patience!"

(It was written lilke that without commas, so don`t blame me.. )


So that was probably it then...


Cheers :)

[vlastovka]

After many months not playing, I opened Dirt Rally today. I could enter Daily Delta event but after I finished it, I could not see my standings and after that I got message "RaceNet service is not available. Try again later"

[vlastovka]

Hmm. Tried another race. One minute game's serves work, another minute don't :-(

[Andy Stonegrove]

For the past month or so I've been having a strange connectivity problem with Racenet, which affects both the community events and league events. I can't pinpoint exactly when this problem occurred for the first time, but I reckon it was around the time when Dirt Rally 2.0 was launched.

For some unexplained reason Dirt Rally loses connection to Racenet either just before an online event begins or in the middle of an event. If I stay in the game after it has lost connection to Racenet, I cannot access any online events. However, if I close the game and restart it, then Racenet connection is back and I can access the online events again. However, the online event that I tried to access/play has now become corrupted and I cannot play/continue playing it anymore. Here’s shortly explained, what happens:

- With community challenges, the connection issue always happens just before the start of the event. I can access the challenge, I can setup my car, but when I press “start” and the stage is due to start, the game begins to load and after 5 seconds of loading the game reports “The Racenet service is not available” and I get returned to the main window of the game. If I try to access any online events, the game tells me that it cannot connect to Racenet. If I close the game and re-start it, the connection to Racenet works, but it shows me that I have already driven the challenge (although I haven't).

- In the league events the game always loses connection somewhere in the middle of the event, between stages. When the problem occurs and I close Dirt Rally and re-start it, I can return to the event and continue playing it from the previous save-game spot, but as soon as I come to the point, where the game lost connection first time around, it loses the connection again. It’s like there were an invisible wall or loop that hinders me from continuing beyond that point.

I’ve tried reinstalling the game, I’ve checked the integrity of the game files, I’ve disconnected and re-connected my Steam account to Racenet, but nothing seems to work. This has totally killed all my interest in playing online events in Dirt Rally.

Is anyone else experiencing similar Racenet connection problems currently?

I’ve sent mail to Codemasters and they’ve replied to me that my message has been forwarded to their tech-team, but it seems that their tech-team is fully occupied with Dirt Rally 2.0 issues and preparing the F1-2019. Thus, my message has disappeared to a black hole, and I suspect that writing another message is not going to create any added value. Thus, I’m turning to you and hoping that someone might have had a similar connectivity issue and maybe there’s a remedy that I haven’t yet found.

I would be very grateful for any help or advice on this matter.

[jdktoo]

Originalmente postado por Farmer_Cee:

For the past month or so I've been having a strange connectivity problem with Racenet, which affects both the community events and league events. I can't pinpoint exactly when this problem occurred for the first time, but I reckon it was around the time when Dirt Rally 2.0 was launched.

For some unexplained reason Dirt Rally loses connection to Racenet either just before an online event begins or in the middle of an event. If I stay in the game after it has lost connection to Racenet, I cannot access any online events. However, if I close the game and restart it, then Racenet connection is back and I can access the online events again. However, the online event that I tried to access/play has now become corrupted and I cannot play/continue playing it anymore. Here’s shortly explained, what happens:

- With community challenges, the connection issue always happens just before the start of the event. I can access the challenge, I can setup my car, but when I press “start” and the stage is due to start, the game begins to load and after 5 seconds of loading the game reports “The Racenet service is not available” and I get returned to the main window of the game. If I try to access any online events, the game tells me that it cannot connect to Racenet. If I close the game and re-start it, the connection to Racenet works, but it shows me that I have already driven the challenge (although I haven't).

- In the league events the game always loses connection somewhere in the middle of the event, between stages. When the problem occurs and I close Dirt Rally and re-start it, I can return to the event and continue playing it from the previous save-game spot, but as soon as I come to the point, where the game lost connection first time around, it loses the connection again. It’s like there were an invisible wall or loop that hinders me from continuing beyond that point.

I’ve tried reinstalling the game, I’ve checked the integrity of the game files, I’ve disconnected and re-connected my Steam account to Racenet, but nothing seems to work. This has totally killed all my interest in playing online events in Dirt Rally.

Is anyone else experiencing similar Racenet connection problems currently?

I’ve sent mail to Codemasters and they’ve replied to me that my message has been forwarded to their tech-team, but it seems that their tech-team is fully occupied with Dirt Rally 2.0 issues and preparing the F1-2019. Thus, my message has disappeared to a black hole, and I suspect that writing another message is not going to create any added value. Thus, I’m turning to you and hoping that someone might have had a similar connectivity issue and maybe there’s a remedy that I haven’t yet found.

I would be very grateful for any help or advice on this matter.

..maybe they do this on purpose, racenet is down for me atm and i cannot upload my current score, lol.. and if i close the program everything will be lost of the current progress, codemasters just suck.

where are the days when u don't need an online connection to play a fkn single player game?

[Elio]

Hi ! ;-)

After my recent comeback, I discovered these annoying issues..!

I don’t know if it’s intentional (damned Dirt Rally lovers) or a real problem about traffic generated.

Cheers !

[Yulmur]

Still can't connect..

[↯lightningboy↯]

Originalmente postado por Andy Stonegrove:

For the past month or so I've been having a strange connectivity problem with Racenet, which affects both the community events and league events. I can't pinpoint exactly when this problem occurred for the first time, but I reckon it was around the time when Dirt Rally 2.0 was launched.

For some unexplained reason Dirt Rally loses connection to Racenet either just before an online event begins or in the middle of an event. If I stay in the game after it has lost connection to Racenet, I cannot access any online events. However, if I close the game and restart it, then Racenet connection is back and I can access the online events again. However, the online event that I tried to access/play has now become corrupted and I cannot play/continue playing it anymore. Here’s shortly explained, what happens:

- With community challenges, the connection issue always happens just before the start of the event. I can access the challenge, I can setup my car, but when I press “start” and the stage is due to start, the game begins to load and after 5 seconds of loading the game reports “The Racenet service is not available” and I get returned to the main window of the game. If I try to access any online events, the game tells me that it cannot connect to Racenet. If I close the game and re-start it, the connection to Racenet works, but it shows me that I have already driven the challenge (although I haven't).

- In the league events the game always loses connection somewhere in the middle of the event, between stages. When the problem occurs and I close Dirt Rally and re-start it, I can return to the event and continue playing it from the previous save-game spot, but as soon as I come to the point, where the game lost connection first time around, it loses the connection again. It’s like there were an invisible wall or loop that hinders me from continuing beyond that point.

I’ve tried reinstalling the game, I’ve checked the integrity of the game files, I’ve disconnected and re-connected my Steam account to Racenet, but nothing seems to work. This has totally killed all my interest in playing online events in Dirt Rally.

Is anyone else experiencing similar Racenet connection problems currently?

I’ve sent mail to Codemasters and they’ve replied to me that my message has been forwarded to their tech-team, but it seems that their tech-team is fully occupied with Dirt Rally 2.0 issues and preparing the F1-2019. Thus, my message has disappeared to a black hole, and I suspect that writing another message is not going to create any added value. Thus, I’m turning to you and hoping that someone might have had a similar connectivity issue and maybe there’s a remedy that I haven’t yet found.

I would be very grateful for any help or advice on this matter.

I had a similar problem and fixed it by uninstalling the game and manually uninstalling any remaining folders of dirt rally on steam games. The issue was some skins i installed from racedepartment. I had previously tried verifying the game files but it didnt work. So yesterday i uninstalled the game redownloaded it and installed it again, making sure that the game has only the original files without mod-skins and the problem is solved. I completed the monthly event with no issues!

[BeggarRu.SifonEn]

i'm glad that my patience had overcome my desire to purchase DR 2.0, at least original DR can be played without online access and RaceNet. it seems that Codies going backwards in game development after original DR.

[vlastovka]

I wonder is there some Windows network expert here that could provide technical details?

[Andy Stonegrove]

Originalmente postado por ↯lightningboy↯:

I had a similar problem and fixed it by uninstalling the game and manually uninstalling any remaining folders of dirt rally on steam games. The issue was some skins i installed from racedepartment. I had previously tried verifying the game files but it didnt work. So yesterday i uninstalled the game redownloaded it and installed it again, making sure that the game has only the original files without mod-skins and the problem is solved. I completed the monthly event with no issues!

Thanks lightningboy, this sounds very promising. I have already tried uninstalling&re-installing the game on Steam, but I didn't realise that the uninstall doesn't wipe out all the game folders. Were there many folders that you had to manually remove, and were they all under the Dirt Rally folder or does the game spread folders wider under the Steam folder structure?

Did you manage to pinpoint, what was the custom livery that caused this problem?

[Hoksu]

The RaceNet service is not available. Please try again later.

First time since re-installing Dirt Rally, which I did less than two weeks after DR2 release if you catch my drift, that I can't do a daily because of Racenet problem. Good thing career still works perfectly, how dumb would it be if I couldn't play singleplayer because of Racenet problem