Forwarding Ports for Need for Speed: High Stakes on Your Router.

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September 19, 2018 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Need for Speed: High Stakes is Electronic Arts's Driving/Racing game with a release date in 1999.

Need for Speed: High Stakes is a driving / racing style of game. Most driving / racing games are some sort of competition, and can be on land, sea, air, or outer space. In some racing games the is either 1st person in the cockpit or 3rd person such as a chase cam, while other games allow you to switch freely between the two views. Racing games are considered sports games.

Forward Ports for Need for Speed: High Stakes

When you are playing Need for Speed: High Stakes 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 intermittently 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 find 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

Use our Network Utilities for a quick way to get your ports forwarded. Network utilities makes it easy to enable and disable your port forwards to keep your network security as tight as possible. You can also do it by hand by following these steps.

The usual process for forwarding a port is:

Ports Required for Need for Speed: High Stakes

The incoming ports that need to be forwarded for Need for Speed: High Stakes are as follows:

Need for Speed: High Stakes - PC

  • TCP: 1030
  • UDP:

If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and Need for Speed: High Stakes simply follow one of these links:

That's all it takes to get your ports open. Don't forget to check out our growing list of games and programs.

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