Unable to connect. At all.

[Smudgey]

Howdie guys and gals,

I've just got a copy of Civ 4 after a friend was saying how amazing it was so I want to do some multiplayer! I patched it up to the latest version, hoping it would all work swimmingly. However when I first went to play it online (after I'd registered to get a nickname etc), the login screen would freeze for a second then do nothing. After much trawling around on the web I found found some ports and opened up UDP ports on my server (as services) 2056, 2075-2079, 2081 and 13139 to see if that would do the trick, set them up as firewall rules, but alas it didn't work.

For the record I'm using a Netgear DC843G, Civ 4 is all patched up, Windows Firewall is in place with all the relevant program exceptions and port exceptions in place.

Thanks in advance

 

[oyzar]

2056 is the port. I don't think i had much of a problem with firewall. You probably mistyped your login / password or you had some illigeal characters in either. The game never give error messages but just freezes up for a second then does nothing instead. Try again a couple times with other characters and if that doesn't work it might be something wrong with your port or firewalls.