RedM: Join Your Server (F8 connect, the server list, and the Connect address)

• Red Dead Redemption 2 on a Windows PC, plus the RedM client. RDR2 from Steam, the Rockstar Games Launcher or Epic all work. RedM may ask players to link a Cfx.re account the first time; it is free at forum.cfx.re.

• The server address. Click the address on the strip at the bottom of your server card on My Servers and it is copied, port included. The same address is the Connect address on the Share with your players card (below).

• No password. RedM servers have no join password, so the card shows no password pill. To keep strangers out, see Keep strangers out below.

• A server that says Online. RedM servers on Haptic are Always On: they run until you stop them. If the card says anything other than Online, start it first; trying to connect never starts a server.

The card's shortcut row also has a How to join pill that opens this guide: on desktop, click the arrow at the right end of the address strip; on a phone the pills sit under the address.

This works once your server is Online, listed or not.

1. Start RedM and wait for its main menu.

2. Press F8 to open the console.

3. Type connect followed by a space and the address, for example connect odin.vesta.haptic.game:7699, and press Enter.

4. RedM downloads your server's resources and loads you in. A first join to a server with many resources can take a while.

Paste the address exactly as copied, port and colon included.

Open your server's Overview card, go to the Details tab, and find Share with your players at the top.

• Copy copies the Connect address. It stays the same across restarts, so friends can save it once.

• Copy for Discord copies a ready-to-paste message with your server name and the address.

• Advanced: direct IP (temporary) shows the numeric IP and port while the server is online. It changes when your server moves machines, so share the address instead.

After a region move the port number changes, so send friends the new address.

Cfx.re runs the RedM server list. Your server appears there several minutes after each start, under the name you give it on the Cfx.re portal. Until you fill in its name and description there, signed in with the Cfx.re account that made your license key, it is listed as Missing server data. Friends can join with the address meanwhile.

Private Server, in the Details tab, hides your server from the RedM server list; players can still join with your address. Save and restart after changing it.

RedM has no server password, and Private Server only hides your server from the list: anyone who has the address can still connect. To control who gets in, use txAdmin's whitelist or your framework's. Opening txAdmin is covered in RedM: Manage your server with txAdmin.

RedM runs only on Windows PCs with Red Dead Redemption 2, which is why the server card shows the Windows icon. The PlayStation and Xbox editions of RDR2 have no RedM, so console players need RDR2 on a Windows PC to play on your server.

• "Steam Required: Please Open Steam and Restart RedM" for everyone on a VORP server: the server needs a Steam Web API key. See RedM: Players can't join your VORP server.

• RedM cannot reach the address: try the numeric IP from Advanced: direct IP (temporary) with connect in F8 the same way. That IP changes when the server moves machines, so get a fresh one each time it stops working.

• A game build or DLC message: your server enforces a Game Build (DLC) the player's game does not match. See FiveM and RedM: Game builds and DLC content.

• The server is not Online: see My server status is Offline. A rejected Cfx.re license key stops the server from starting; RedM: Getting started on Haptic has the fix.

• Everything else (timeouts, stuck loading): walk through I can't connect to my server.

Ask in Discord or email support@haptic.gg. Include your server name, your framework, the exact text the player typed in F8, and a screenshot of the message RedM shows them.