Open Ports on Your Router for Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter

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October 09, 2018 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is a First Person Shooter game published by Devolver Digital released in 2010.

Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter has the following genres of gameplay.

Port Forward Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter

When you are playing Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter 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

The fastest way to forward a port is to use our Network Utilities suite of tools. With our software you can quickly and easily turn your port forwards on and off for multiple programs at any time. Or just keep reading to learn how to do it by hand.

The usual process for forwarding a port is:

Ports Required for Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter

The specific ports for Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter are as follows:

Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter - Steam

  • TCP: 27015-27030, 27036-27037
  • UDP: 4380, 27000-27031, 27036

Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter - Xbox 360

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 3074

Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter - Playstation 4

  • TCP: 1935, 3478-3480
  • UDP: 3074, 3478-3479

Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter - Xbox One

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3544, 4500

If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter simply follow one of these links:

That's all it takes to open your ports. Want to learn how to create more port forwards? Check out our list of games and applications.

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