Guild Wars 2

Several things to know:
1) you HAVE to be an Administrator for the /clientport 80 shortcut to work.
If you do not know if you are an administrator or not, then you probably are not.

2) If you play the game through a router, then make sure that Port 80 is assigned to the game.
You have to be able to log into your router’s admin to get to the port/forward abilities.

3) Try to make sure that you have enough free space for the game’s TEMPORARY files to run in. I have experienced problems when I run with less than 4 Gigs free.

4) When you run Ventrillo or some other voice-over-IP, make sure that you are not using a RANGE of ports that would walk over port 80.
There are other programs that also let you choose a range of ports for their use so close any program that you do not need to run.

5) Make sure that your system does not have any malware, keylogger, or snooper software running because they nest themselves into the port driver to both collect and send data back to a host, causing timeouts to the game.

Note: Thanks much to the person that posted /clientport 80 command line arguments. Can other ports work if port 80 is used by a required program? Or is the game hard-locked to port 80?

Lance

Any one else find the Build Updates that force you to log out annoying?
I can understand that changes are necessary but I get these build updates (two in three hours) that cause me to stop what I am doing and get to a safe spot.