A very common problem with gameranger is joining a hosted game.
Problem: You are able to login in GameRanger and join any room, but as soon as the host starts the game you are stuck at "Loading multiplayer game" screen and then AOE just comes out.
Solution:
The problem is because of your ROUTER settings. Follow these steps to resolve this problem...We need to do port forwarding for game ranger.
1. open "Control Panel" and go to "Windows Firewall".
2. If your firewall is OFF, skip step 3 & 4, else click on "Change settings" and go to "Exceptions" tab.
3. Add "gameranger.exe" and your application name (eg Age2x_1.exe) in exception list.
4. Now click on "Add Port" and add UDP port "16000". Click OK and come out.
5. Try starting a game now. It should work now, but if it isn't working, try further steps.
6. Now we need to modify router settings. Open router administration page and Enable "UPNP" if it is not already enabled.
7. If it is still not working, disable DHCP and provide static ip address to your system.
8. In the port forwarding settings, Forward port "16000" for AOE and start playing now. ENJOY :)
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i have windows 7 and i am having the current problem as shown above but the router dosen't have an expceptions tab and the firewall settings cant be changed or i can't see where it's a tomonson router pulsnet if that helps and the windows firewall on the pc aoe and gameranger are checked on exceptions but it still dosent work i think i have given full details of this problem any help with this would be gratefuly appreciated thanks :)
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