How to Port Forward Pillars of Eternity

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

Pillars of Eternity is a Role-Playing game published by Paradox Interactive, Versus Evil released in 2015.

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Pillars of Eternity is a roleplaying game, or simply RPG. Role-Playing Games give you many, many hours of game play where you can explore a sometimes huge new world through the eyes of your own character. They are usually the longest style of game with the most detailed story lines. Popular RPG titles include Skyrim, World of Warcraft, and Fallout.

Port Forward Pillars of Eternity

When you are playing Pillars of Eternity 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 locate 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

A smart way to forward your ports is to use Network Utilities. Since Network Utilities allows you to both forward and un-forward ports easily you can keep your network security maximized, and then forward ports only when you need them. Alternatively you can do it by hand.

The process for forwarding a port is generally:

Ports To Forward for Pillars of Eternity

The network ports for Pillars of Eternity are as follows:

Pillars of Eternity - Xbox One

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

Pillars of Eternity - Playstation 4

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

Pillars of Eternity - PC

  • We do not know the PC ports for Pillars of Eternity yet. If you know them please send us a message using our Message System.

Pillars of Eternity - Steam

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

Pillars of Eternity - Switch

  • TCP: 6667, 12400, 28910, 29900, 29901, 29920
  • UDP: 1-65535

We have guides that are custom tailored for Pillars of Eternity that will show you the specific ports.

When you are done following those steps your ports will be open. Do you need more games or programs forwarded? Check out our games and programs list.

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