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    Borderlands Online Game Solution: GameRanger

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by darthvader1432, Nov 8, 2009.

  1. darthvader1432

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    Tutorial
    GameRanger
    For all the pc players that are having connection errors and other online problems. Now play with your friends with 0 errors.
     
    darthvader1432, Nov 8, 2009
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  2. jenesuispasbavard

    jenesuispasbavard Notebook Evangelist

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    Thank you very very much.
     
    jenesuispasbavard, Nov 8, 2009
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    person135 Notebook Evangelist

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    game ranger is a great program and it works for many games, not just borderlands.
     
    person135, Nov 8, 2009
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  4. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    Regular in game service works fine for me, I forwarded my ports with no problem.

    I still will give this a shot though to see if my games are more lag free if I host with it, and I see there is a ping/latency thing on the server select screen so I can join a game that is lag free.

    That is one big flaw in the in game server select, every game I ever joined so far was laggy and I had no way to know before hand, so I always have to host my own games.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Nov 9, 2009
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  5. ryanm00

    ryanm00 Notebook Guru

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    Forwarded my ports, turned off firewall, even tried DMZ. Nothing worked and friends could not join my game. Gameranger was the simple solution.
     
    ryanm00, Nov 9, 2009
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    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    Tried it today, it works but nobody joined my games. Only one person in over an hour while when I host a public game directly from the game I get 3 people in just a few minutes.

    So my verdict is yes its a good service, but only if you have friends already interested in playing with you and you cant get the normal game service to work, otherwise its not so good and just another program/step involved in the process that does not need to be there.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Nov 9, 2009
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    huiman84 Notebook Consultant

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    ive done everything to forward my ports as well (just to have it still not work)...hopefully this is the answer.
     
    huiman84, Nov 9, 2009
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    Can't seem to get it to work for me ._. Hm... Does it work even with the steam version of Borderlands?
     
    Baka, Nov 9, 2009
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    Well it works for me, just find a game with full green ping. A simple solution for people with port forwarding problems. If you forwarded your ports already and it worked lucky for you.
     
    darthvader1432, Nov 9, 2009
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