How to Open a Port in Your Router for Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun

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May 22, 2021 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun is a Real-Time and Strategy game published by Strategy First, Paradox Interactive released in 2003.

Victoria: Complete game art
Victoria: Complete game art

Which Ports Does Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun Require

The network ports for Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun are as follows:

Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun - Steam

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

Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun - PC

  • We do not know the PC ports for Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun yet. If you know them please send us a message using our Message System.

If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun simply follow one of these links:

When you play Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun you will experience the following styles of play.

Port Forward Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun

When you are playing Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun 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 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

Most people use our Network Utilities software package to forward ports. It's the easiest way to forward ports when you need them and then close them when you do not. You can also do it by hand.

The process for forwarding a port is usually:

When you are done following those steps your ports will be forwarded. Be sure to check out our full list of games and programs that can be forwarded.

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