How To Open Ports in Your Router for Age of Empires IV

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June 11, 2019 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Age of Empires IV is a Real-Time and Strategy game published by Xbox Game Studios released in 2021.

Age of Empires IV game art showing characters wearing armor.
Age of Empires IV game art showing characters wearing armor.

Ports Required for Age of Empires IV

The connection ports that need to be forwarded for Age of Empires IV are as follows:

Age of Empires IV - PC

  • TCP: 3478, 5222, 8888
  • UDP: 3478, 5222, 9999

Age of Empires IV - Steam

  • TCP: 3478, 5222, 8888, 27015, 27036
  • UDP: 3478, 5222, 9999, 27015, 27031-27036

Age of Empires IV - Xbox One

  • TCP: 3074, 3478, 5222, 8888
  • UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3478, 3544, 4500, 5222, 9999

Age of Empires IV - Xbox Series X

  • TCP: 3074, 3478, 5222, 8888
  • UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3478, 3544, 4500, 5222, 9999

We have guides that are custom tailored for Age of Empires IV that will show you the connection ports.

Age of Empires IV includes the following styles of play.

How to Port Forward Age of Empires IV

When you are playing Age of Empires IV 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 sometimes 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 find 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

Our Network Utilities software makes port forwarding a breeze. You can be done in just a few minutes.

The usual process for forwarding a port is:

That's all it takes to open your ports. Want more? Check out our growing list of games and applications.

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