Opening Ports for Tempest Rising using Your Router

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Tempest Rising is a Real-Time, Action, and Strategy game published by THQ Nordic, 3D Realms with a currently unknown release date.

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Which Ports Does Tempest Rising Require

The specific ports for Tempest Rising are as follows:

Tempest Rising - Steam

  • TCP: 27015, 27036
  • UDP: 27015, 27031-27036

We have guides that are custom tailored for Tempest Rising that will show you the exact ports.

Tempest Rising offers the following genres of gameplay.

Forward Ports for Tempest Rising

When you are playing Tempest Rising you might need to forward some ports in your router. Forwarding ports is a useful trick in gaming because it can really help to make your network connection most stable and on occasion even faster. Routers were not designed to allow incoming network requests and some games can play tremendously better if an incoming connection is forwarded through the router to the game.

Before You Forward a Port

Before you can forward a port you need to know the following things:

How to locate your Router's IP Address

The easiest way to locate your router's IP address is to run our free Router Detector utility. It's a part of the Network Utilities suite of tools and it's completely free to use.

How To Forward Ports

To easily and quickly get your ports forwarded use the Network Utilities software. Network Utilities allows you to forward ports only when you need them, and then close them again when you are done. This makes keeping your network more secure much easier. You can also do it by hand.

The normal process for forwarding a port is:

That should do it; your ports are now forwarded. Need something else forwarded? Check out our list of games and programs.

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