How To Open Ports in Your Router for Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition

Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition is a Role-Playing, Adventure, and Strategy game published by Beamdog, Skybound Games released in 2013.

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Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition offers the following styles of play.

Role-Playing Games give you hours on end of game play where you can explore a new world through the eyes of your own character. They tend to be the longest style of game with the most immersive story lines. Popular RPG titles include Skyrim, World of Warcraft, and Fallout.
An adventure game is where the player is usually the protagonist and plays through an evolving story. The storyline is the driving part of an adventure game.
Strategy games tend to focus on planning and skillful thinking in order to beat either real players or bots. They can be either real-time in which the play clock ticks continuously or turn-based where each player has a dedicated turn to finish their action. It is not uncommon to include exploration and resource management.

How to Port Forward Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition

When you are playing Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition 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:

Your router's IP address.
The IP address of the device that the game will play on: either your computer or your console.
The TCP and UDP ports that need to be forwarded.

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

To easily and quickly get your ports forwarded use the Network Utilities software. Network Utilities allows you to forward ports only when you need them, and then close them again when you are done. This makes keeping your network more secure much easier. You can also do it by hand.

The usual process for forwarding a port is:

Open a web browser and navigate to your router's IP address.
Find your routers port forwarding section.
Put the IP address of your computer or gaming console in the correct box in your router.
Put the TCP and UDP ports for your game in the corresponding boxes in your router.
Frequently you have to reboot your router for the changes to take effect.

Which Ports Does Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition Require

The ports that need to be forwarded for Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition are as follows:

Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition - PC

TCP: 2300-2400, 6073, 47630

UDP: 2300-2400, 6073, 47630

Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition - Playstation 4

TCP: 1935, 2300-2400, 3478-3480, 6073, 47630

UDP: 2300-2400, 3074, 3478-3479, 6073, 47630

Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition - Steam

TCP: 2300-2400, 6073, 27015-27030, 27036-27037, 47630

UDP: 2300-2400, 4380, 6073, 27000-27031, 27036, 47630

Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition - Switch

TCP: 2300-2400, 6073, 6667, 12400, 28910, 29900-29901, 29920, 47630

UDP: 1-65535

Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition - Xbox One

TCP: 2300-2400, 3074, 6073, 47630

UDP: 88, 500, 2300-2400, 3074, 3544, 4500, 6073, 47630