How to Forward Ports in Your Router for The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020

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The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 is an Action, Adventure, and Survival game published by Bandai Namco Entertainment with a currently unknown release date.

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 game cover artwork
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 game cover artwork

Which Ports Does The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 Require

The ports that need to be forwarded for The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 are as follows:

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 - Steam

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

We have guides that are custom tailored for The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 that will show you the incoming ports.

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 includes the following styles of gameplay.

Forward Ports for The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020

When you are playing The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 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 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

Don't have time? Use our Network Utilities software. It's the easiest way to both open and close ports in your router. Of you can do it manually if you want.

The usual process for forwarding a port is:

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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