Unofficial Civ4 GameSpy Multiplayer Firewall/Router Port Forwarding Guide

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Unofficial Civ4 GameSpy Multiplayer Firewall/Router Port Forwarding Guide

Tired of the Infinite looping of "Contacting/Connecting Host/Peer" messages on GameSpy?

I make it quick, here's the list of the ports (both TCP and UDP) that you need to open/forward on your Router and Firewall:

* 6667 (IRC)
* 2033 (Civ4)
* 2056 (Civ4)
* 47624 (Directplay)
* 3783 (Voice Chat Port)
* 27900 (Master Server UDP Heartbeat)
* 28900 (Master Server List Request)
* 29900 (GP Connection Manager)
* 29901 (GP Search Manager)
* 13139 (Custom UDP Pings)
* 6500 (Query Port)
* 2300-2400 (DirectPlay - UDP)

References and Thanks:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=35588
http://www.gamespyarcade.com/helpers/workshop/routers/

 

[Mat777]

This is just ridiculous. Why so many ports, thats insane.

Took me a hour. Note that you need to turn off the firewall of the router.

You also have forgot a port : 2302 (DirectPlay - UDP)