You may need to go to the GameRanger community to get help on that. I am sorry, but I cannot help you on it with a definite answer. " Do the 2 game exe's (gameranger and Links) require portforwarding or will setting to "allow" in program rules do the trick? "
#Gameranger forums update#
Post back if you have any doubts / Update us regarding this. Visit :Īlso make sure your ISP is not blocking the ports. I dont know if you have gone through these links, but if not, please go through them thoroughly.
Make sure all your game executables are allowed (not auto) in the program rules and port forwarding is set for the correct executale. Then if it works, reinstall NIS ( download NIS from or preactivated copy from prior to uninstalling NIS ) and reconfigure the port forward settings into the firewall rules. Then try adding portforwarding settings to router and rescan. router and windows) and run a port scan using tools like the (download the tool before uninstalling NIS). May be that can have some role, which is why I refered to a free malware removal forum.Īssuming you uninstalled NIS, cleared all port forwarding settings configured, disabled all firewall ( incl. In your previous topic, you had issues with a lot of PUA / Potentially Unwanted Applications. Then you will be left with only windows firewall and router.Īre you using the FREE version of MBAM or its trial or pro? The reason is if its in trial or pro version, then it will also have some role in this play. Running NRT will clean up almost all files leftout during uninstallation.
#Gameranger forums driver#
To avoid in any case a driver conflict or something, I asked you to uninstall NIS. Now, since disabling dont help you, the chances of Norton product blocking your path is very rare. But since you mentioned the rule will not survive a restart or long time, I felt something is going bad.
#Gameranger forums how to#
If that is the problem I'm not sure I would know how to fix it anyway lol.)Īdded the files to the Auto-Protect & SONAR Exclusion listĭisabling the entire protection components is similar to no protection. (Could the anti-virus portion of Norton IS be causing a problem with this. Even put it on DMZ and at the same time temporarily turned off the smart firewall but didn't help. I have my router set up with the same port forwarding as when everything was working fine. UnPn Discovery is ON - not sure if that's helping or hurting or neither. Read in another forum that it's enough - should automatically do the port forwarding for you. So removed Program Rules port info and I have "Allow" for both Links game and GR instead of "Custom".
With port forwarding setup set up correctly (done it many times in 2012) tried to go immediately to GR but wouldn't connect to other players - got rejected back. If anyone has any ideas please share - thanks. So it may not even be Norton IS doing it but not sure. See this link if you want to read all details. Which brings me to the disappearing ports in the program rules which I put on this forum and really never got "fixed" (didn't help with problem anyway). I can log in and talk to people etc but when game is launched I can't get in - get thrown out with no error msg (this would be typical if you don't have port forwarding not set correctly. Cannot play Links 2003 online golf game on Game Ranger (GR - online game site for ALL kinds of games). I think this problem started a while back when I "upgraded" to IS 2014 from IS 2012 (don't know why -had no problems with 2012 ).