RTW freezing trying when clicking on online battles section of Multiplayer

**totalwar123** · 11-05-2011, 17:31

I have the Rome Total War Gold Edition. With Rome Total War and BI. I can get into BI online lobby with no problem but the RTW is giving me this problem. My firewall allows both games and I do not have hamachi. I do not think it is a hardware related problem as RTW runs fine as long as you do not try going online. Does anyone know the solution to this problem thanks.

**Lazy O** · 11-05-2011, 18:03

Do you have your ports forwarded for RomeTW? That is very often the cause of the problem, even if you get in the lobby gamespy manages to screw something up.

**totalwar123** · 11-05-2011, 19:44

do you know what ports I need to forward? Also I did the faction unlock in the my game files could this be causing an issue. Would disabling the firewall when playing online stop the freeze issue.

**vartan** · 11-06-2011, 20:11

Originally Posted by totalwar123

do you know what ports I need to forward? Also I did the faction unlock in the my game files could this be causing an issue. Would disabling the firewall when playing online stop the freeze issue.

http://portforward.com/english/appli...l_Warindex.htm

Find your router model there and you'll be set.