port forwarding of router - how

unwashed potato! · 8 Mar 2014 at 00:19

so i'm trying and failing to play the very old star wars galatic battlegrounds clone campaigns game on my win8.1 pc and laptop playing the multiplayer game.

the game installs but neither of the devices will find the other device that is hosting the game.

one issue could be port forwarding. i've looked and don't get this one bit.

below is the ports that need to be forwarded/open apparently for this game.

Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
47624 TCP
2300-2400 TCP
2300-2400 UDP

below is an image of the port forwarding for my router.

how do i do the above? will this forward automatically for any device connected to the router?

marc2003 · 8 Mar 2014 at 00:33

if your pc and laptop are on the same network at home, you don't have to do anything with your router. port forwarding is only needed if you want to accept incoming connections from the internet.

edit: see here if you really do need port forwarding... http://portforward.com/english/rout...rs_Galactic_Battlegrounds_Clone_Campaigns.htm

unwashed potato! · 8 Mar 2014 at 00:42

ah thanks that's good to know. yeah they are both on the same network.

don't suppose you'd know why the games wouldn't talk to each other? something in win8.1 (on both devices and also tried a vista laptop still same issue), that prevents it? file sharing for insnance?

marc2003 · 8 Mar 2014 at 09:59

presumably it's the firewall on each machine. usually the windows firewall will prompt you if some program wants to act as a "server" to accept incoming connections. the easiest way to test is by turning it off temporarily. if it works when you do this, you know you have to configure the firewall to allow that application.

i should say it's normally safe to turn it off for testing because you are behind a router. this is assuming one of the machines isn't infected with something already...

if it was, turning off the firewall could theoretically expose the other machine to it. :eek:

unwashed potato! · 8 Mar 2014 at 11:48

thanks i seemed to be file sharing needing a password. disabled that and it now works.

marc2003 · 8 Mar 2014 at 12:04

i really don't see why file sharing has anything to do with it, but whatever works....

unwashed potato! · 8 Mar 2014 at 14:23

yeah i thought it was odd but i found it suggested online. i think it's something to do with the host having the confiugration files and othes can't access these files with a password block in the way

marc2003 · 8 Mar 2014 at 14:27

is it a LAN only game? because you'd never open those ports to play over the internet? that would be suicide. :eek:

edit: of course it's played over the internet. i forgot i posted a link earlier.