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#STRONGHOLD CRUSADER ONLINE MULTIPLAYER WINDOWS 10#
#STRONGHOLD CRUSADER ONLINE MULTIPLAYER SOFTWARE#

When you are done you should be able to be joined by your friends! If you can find the game and successfully join then everything is set up right and you can enter the battle!

#STRONGHOLD CRUSADER ONLINE MULTIPLAYER SOFTWARE#

In addition, make sure that "C:\Windows\System32\dpnsvr.exe" is in your exceptions list, this is the DirectPlay Server software that is used to host the server for Stronghold Crusader.

The TCP & UDP port range for DirectPlay is from 2300 to 2400 along with a single TCP port on number 47624 (source: 2K games) Īs player and host you need to open these ports in your Firewall and your Router, DirectPlay does not prompt for permission from your Firewall so you got to manually enter those numbers into your Firewall software.

Both player and host need to forward the ports listen below and dpnsvr.exe needs to be in your exceptions list.

#STRONGHOLD CRUSADER ONLINE MULTIPLAYER WINDOWS 10#

Windows 10 users may not be able to get this working at all, DirectPlay is pretty old and will not be in your favor when you run the game using reverse compatibility settings.If stuff like this is a no-go for you then check out the next method, Virtual Networks. Experienced users who have port-forwarded other games will be able to do this easily, for first timers it can be an awful thing to do depending on the router's firmware and capabilities.It is faster in latency performance than anything that involves creating a virtual network like Hamachi or Tunngle.

DirectPlay is a DirectX 9.0 technology provided by Microsoft that is intended for programmers to ease the process of creating peer-to-peer and client/server connections, as explaining DirectPlay is not really relevant for this guide I suggest that if you want to read more on it you can head to Microsoft's site!