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David M · 04-13-2013, 06:37 PM

I went to my other gaming computer and was able to open Windows Firewall. So I opened up inbound rules and saw Crysis 3 had the green checkmark, along with MOH and BF3.

So what isn't clear is that under New Rule, how do I open up the ports that I need to make sure are open?

Is there a way to get a list of all my ports to see which are open and which are closed?

As an aside, I have never had to go through all this to get Steam games to connect to a server. It's kind of a shame that EA has games that I want to play and that they can't seem to just make it work without making their customers spend hours researching how to fix their problems. Wouldn't it be nice if EA shut down Origin and let the professionals, Steam, distribute their games?

04-13-2013, 06:37 PM	#4
David M Techphile. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: San Francisco Bay Posts: 6,546	I went to my other gaming computer and was able to open Windows Firewall. So I opened up inbound rules and saw Crysis 3 had the green checkmark, along with MOH and BF3. So what isn't clear is that under New Rule, how do I open up the ports that I need to make sure are open? Is there a way to get a list of all my ports to see which are open and which are closed? As an aside, I have never had to go through all this to get Steam games to connect to a server. It's kind of a shame that EA has games that I want to play and that they can't seem to just make it work without making their customers spend hours researching how to fix their problems. Wouldn't it be nice if EA shut down Origin and let the professionals, Steam, distribute their games? __________________ Asus P8P67 WS Revolution \| Intel 2600K @ 4.7 GHz \| Win 7 Pro 64 \|8 gigs Corsair 1600 \| Two Diamond 6990's in Crossfire\| Corsair AX1200 \| Thermalright Silver Arrow \| Western Digital Black 2TB 64 meg cache \| Lian-Li PC-A71B \| Logitec Z-5500 \| Three Asus 26" VW266H monitors running under Eyefinity \| Last edited by David M; 04-13-2013 at 06:51 PM.