What is a port in games??

[Syndicution]

I have heard that the port thingy is bad in GTA 4, but what is it and what does it do??

 

[Kendo4life1]

A port is something on your router, it allows you to send and receive data without having your entire ip adress opened.
Its basically just a little part of your ip that you open so that you can use that for data transfer.
Most games that run servers have a port behind the ip.

 

[noahhicks]

To what are you referring? Here are 2 possibilities:

1. The Port of the game from 1 system (PC or Console) to the other isn't great. Games start out on a certain platform and then have to be converted to other systems. Sometimes this conversion doesn't go very well. Graphics aren't as good, controls don't work as well, etc.

2. The ability to play the game online uses some bad ports on the network and people have difficulty without using port forwarding on their routers.

 

[Syndicution]

To what are you referring? Here are 2 possibilities:

1. The Port of the game from 1 system (PC or Console) to the other isn't great. Games start out on a certain platform and then have to be converted to other systems. Sometimes this conversion doesn't go very well. Graphics aren't as good, controls don't work as well, etc.

2. The ability to play the game online uses some bad ports on the network and people have difficulty without using port forwarding on their routers.

Well I was thinking about the Port of the game system 😉 Thanks 😀