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Re: Invalid Cd Key ???

El Dragon

November 21st, 2004 04:57 PM

[off topic]
the talking toaster (role your mouse over it a few times) is a wildwest treat/punnishment for those regular players of Wild West that get 300 posts. I'm lucky that I already passed that mark before queeg inflicted it upon us.
[/off topic]

Try what Hew's posted and see if that solves the problem
Also make sure that you've got the fresh newly entered cd key in you're cd file before making it read only as making an incorect one read only won't solve anything. Sometimes the last couple of #'s of the cd key get dropped for some strange reason (which is why we make it read only so it won't be messed with after setting)

Also, from what I've read so far, I don't believe that he's got a duplicate cd error just a key file getting messed up.

Do give us feed back as to weather our adviced helped or not. If not if you can give us any more info that also might be helpful.

GG and welcome to the wild west
(if you haven't tried out our mod yet it's found at http://www.the-wildwest.co.uk and feel free to ask anyone wearing a =WW= tag for help, we are hear to help ya.)

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Re: Invalid Cd Key ???

November 21st, 2004 05:35 PM

@ Dragon, I believe he has the WW, I think I saw him playing before...

1581694

Re: Invalid Cd Key ???

November 22nd, 2004 12:13 AM

Make really sure that your are typing the key in standard RTCW. OSP and shrubmod looks similar to regular RTCW! Entering the key here results in writing the key into a mod folder but you should only have one rtcwkey in main directory.

I got another Idea. I remember as I visited you last week we all had annoying key errors the whole time! As you told me you were using your strange router the first time. So maybe it makes something wrong with IP/port masquerading!? I also remember that one time I lost my connection for no reason even we changed nothing in network configuration. Perhaps the authserver cannot communicate with you correctly sometimes.
Try to use your standalone DSL-modem again a watch if you have the same probs.

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Re: Invalid Cd Key ???

November 22nd, 2004 12:37 AM

If you don't enter the CD-key within ww, then some servers will kick you for "empthy cd-key is not allowed". If you have trouple with invalid cd-key then try start ww from rtcw instead of ww.

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Re: Invalid Cd Key ???

November 22nd, 2004 02:58 AM

Thanks...

I have only one file "rtcwkey" in the whole RTCW Folder and this one is in Main Folder!
i erased it, and generated a new file with RTCW... (not with WW!)
a new rtcwkey is in main Foldernow (i made it "read only", too) ...but the key still is not accepted!

while typing in the key, the last two characters are - "d8" in the file later on, there is a"[]" instead of a "d8" ! (Maybe the "[]" is a crazy looking 0, but that does not matter...)
But the file always looked that way, and it worked!

@Rudi: I tried it with and without router... there was no difference...so the router is OK!
I even checked it with my laptop and my PC just using the modem, without router: but "INVALID CD KEY"...
(in RTCW as well as in WW)

so I think it can only be the master server! ... do the master server administrators know, that sth. doesn't work?

any other tips??? *praying*



but Call of Duty works fine ... haha! :-)

PS. I wrote an email to the technical support of RTCW, but i guess they won't help me!

1583001

Re: Invalid Cd Key ???

November 22nd, 2004 01:59 PM

I searched on Google and couldn't find any more answers...

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Re: Invalid Cd Key ???

El Dragon

November 22nd, 2004 08:18 PM

curious did the last 2 #'s get replaced with that []? if so maybe stick them back in and give it a try again. Worst case senario is you have to start from scratch one more time.

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Re: Invalid Cd Key ???

November 23rd, 2004 01:06 AM

I found out, that nothing can help me... It is unbelievable ...
Maybe it is my provider, who makes mistakes. I don't know.

THE STORY:
Yesterday I tried it again: "Invalid CD Key", okay, not amazing...so I send the rtcwkey to a friend in Stuttgart, he should try it! He had an invalid key, too (using my file the right way).
Then I send the file to a UNIX User ... he checked it ---> key was valid!
He send the File back to me ---> key was invalid!

So, I know, the key works, but not on my machine! (And also not on my Laptop...)

And when I tried the keys of the other guys (so we changed the keys for a short while for testing) they were working!!! My key is the only one who doesnot work on my PC...

I hate it!

The last two characters are only for ingame typing of the key...they are not written in the file and the strange "[]" is a line break in the windows editor!

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Re: Invalid Cd Key ???

Hewster

November 23rd, 2004 04:26 AM

mmm this is odd...

It is true, the last 2 digits of your key are not needed, they are some kind of hash for
a preliminary check of you key when you first enter it in-game, and they will be removed
by the game once the key is validated.

The only last thing I can think of is... do you enter the cd key in lower case ?
ie: a not A, z not Z ect ?

If you open the rtcwkey in wordpad it should look something like this:

and no, that is not a real key

Hewster

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Re: Invalid Cd Key ???

November 23rd, 2004 06:11 AM

Thank you!


that is not a real key...damn it!

well i tried big letters, too, but i know, that normally sense only small letters are accepted...

and i did use small letters!