FEAR and routers

manveruppd · 22 Jul 2007 at 22:42

Trying to set up port forwarding so I can play FEAR through my router but it doesn't seem to be working... The readme says 27888 is the port I need to open, is this correct?
Game was working fine up until I plugged in the router so I know it's not my firewall or any other reason!

manveruppd · 23 Jul 2007 at 10:45

Nobody know?

Trip Hazard · 23 Jul 2007 at 11:23

Yup, 27888

http://www.portforward.com/cports.htm

manveruppd · 23 Jul 2007 at 11:49

Sorry, my bad, I didn't phrase my OP properly: I DID try 27888 like it said in the readme (actually it said you need it open to HOST games, not to join them, but I extrapolated...), both TCP and UDP just to be oin the safe side, and the game still wouldn't work. It can't find a single server in the whole of the internet.

FrenchTart · 23 Jul 2007 at 12:02

It doesn't require opening any inbound ports to simply play the game. Are you 100% sure that you don't have a firewall problem (be it on your PC or on the router?). Many routers just use NAT rather than a seperate proper firewall, but some do have the additional (and needless) feature.

It's worth disabling your own firewall "just in case".

I can happily play FEAR without forwarding any ports - it's only for hosting that the forwarding is required.

bledd · 23 Jul 2007 at 12:12

most of the users on here will be using router's, as above check the router's firewall and your own in windows

manveruppd · 23 Jul 2007 at 12:18

:/

Wasn't the firewall, wasn't the router...

I'd forgotten that PeerGuardian blocks Gamespy and I need to disable it before running the game. It's working fine now.

Thanks for your replies, and feel free to :rolleyes:

at me - I know I am!

bledd · 23 Jul 2007 at 12:44

heh, i ripped some hair out before when pg was blocking the steam servers :eek:

should have suggested that, forgot all about it

manveruppd · 23 Jul 2007 at 12:57

Same here, haven't touched this game in months which is why I had forgotten about it.... :rolleyes:

FrenchTart · 23 Jul 2007 at 16:08

Lol. At least you managed to work it out in the end

I've not played FEAR in a while..I used to be pretty good at it (FrenchTart), though that sadly translated to being banned from several servers for "hacking" :rolleyes: