[FIXED] Hunted: The Demon’s Forge Crash Fix and Fixes to Crashes, Co-Op connection, Failed to Connect Error, Control problems, Slow load time

Another epic online coop to immerse yourself in, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge doesn’t fail to deliver a new experience to gamers. It’s too bad though that the game takes heavy flak on some connection errors that can break the coop fun. Here I’ve compiled a comprehensive list of crash and error fixes for Hunted: The Demon’s Forge.

First things first! Make sure your system meets the system requirements to play Hunted: The Demon’s Forge.

Minimum System Requirements

* OS: Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7
* CPU: Intel dual core 2 GHz or similar
* RAM: 2 GB
* HDD: 4 GB free disk space
* Graphics: 256 MB Graphics Memory
* Sound Card: DirectX 9 Compatible
* DirectX: Version 9

Recommended System Requirements

* OS: Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7
* CPU: Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz or Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+
* RAM: 3 GB
* HDD: 4 GB free disk space
* Graphics: 512 MB Graphics Memory
* Sound Card: DirectX 9 Compatible
* DirectX: Version 9

Supported Graphics Cards:
Minimum – nVidia 6/7 series or similar
Recommended – nVidia 8 series or similar

Recommended list of Hunted: The Demon’s Forge Crash Fix and Fixes to Errors

Problem 1# Hunted – Gamespy Connection Issues ‘Failed to Connect’

If you are experiencing connection issues with Gamespy, make sure you have UDP/TCP 7777 port forwarded in your router.

Problem 2# Hunted: The Demons Forge Cross Region Support

You can’t play coop games cross region on Xbox 360, PC or PS3 but you can directly invite people. Basically you won’t find cross region games in search results.

Problem 3# Keyboard Re-map: Can’t See PC Controls

Make sure you don’t have any other controller like Xbox 360 controller plugged into your PC. Unplug the controller, quit the game and re-launch the game.

Problem 4# Hunted: The Demons Forge Port Forwarding

You only need to forward TCP/UDP port 7777 to play Hunted online coop. Meanwhile make sure you forward these ports also if you are unable to play public games.

28900
27900
28910
28902

Problem #5 Hunted: The Demons Forge Online Co Op Connection Fix

XP/Vista

Step 1
Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Switch to classic view -> Windows Firewall. Click on Exceptions tab and add “hunted.exe” in the exceptions.

Step 2
Follow this if above method doesn’t work. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Switch to classic view -> Windows Firewall. Click on “Advanced Tab”, enter description of the service i.e “Hunted” and enter the ports below.

TCP 28900 – 28902
TCP 7777
TCP 28910
TCP 29900
TCP 29901
UDP 6500
UDP 7777 – 7787
UDP 9989
UDP 27900

Windows 7

Step 1
Go to Control panel -> Network and sharing center -> Windows firewall, and click on advanced settings. A window will pop up with options inbound rules, outbound rules, connection security rules, and monitoring.

Now click on the “Inbound Rules” and you will see two options for “Hunted” one with an “acception” and other with a “deny” rule, delete both of them.

Step 2
Click “New Rule” on the right hand side and add following settings.

Rule Type: Program

Now navigate to your game folder and choose “hunted.exe”.

Action: Allow the connection
Profile: Tick Private/Public
Name: Hunted

Step 3
Right click properties on Hunted in rules and go to “Advanced Tab”. Now make sure interface type is selecting either your wireless or wired connection.

Change Edge Traversal to “Allow Edge Traversal”. Now click on “Protocols and Ports” tab to do the following.

Select protocol type and change to any.
All ports for local port.
All ports for remote port.
Note: Repeat for the “Outbound Rules”.

Problem 6# Hunted: The Demons Forge Doesn’t Start

Verify the integrity of the game files on Steam. Or try again.

Problem 7# Hunted: The Demons Forge Slow Loading Issues

Problem 8# Hunted: The Demons Forge Crashes

Hunted: The Demons Forge FAQs

Problem 9# Little Head and Big Head mode only work in multiplayer

This is by design. You can only use these modes during multiplayer gameplay.

Problem 10# While playing in co-op, the player’s weapons, talents and crystals aren’t saved.

This is by design when using another player’s character,only gold collected will be transferred to player using the borrowed character.

Problem 11# Crucible map names can’t be changed after they are created.

There is no way to rename maps after their creation.

Problem 12# Player’s character has been altered and new abilities or items are present.

This may occur if player 1 allows another player (player 2) access to player 1’s characters in multiplayer. To prevent another player from playing with your characters, select ‘Edit Persona’ from the multiplayer menu, select your character preference, and then select ‘Locked’.

Problem 13# Changing resolution during online gameplay may result in disconnection form the current game session.

Resolution changes should occur before or after multiplayer sessions.

Problem 14# Resource manager displays incorrect number of crystals collected.

The resource manager displays the highest number of crystals collected by the current character being played. The correct number of crystals collected will display at upgrade points when switching to the correct character.

Problem 15# Player is unable to publish Crucible maps.

There is a hard limit of 6 published maps for all users of the title on one PC. To resolve this issue, retract some published maps or delete the Hunted save data folder in My Games.

Problem 16# Accepting a friend invite on PC does not add the player to the inviter’s friend list.

Player’s must both invite and accept each other’s invites in order to be added to the friends list.

Problem 17# Accepting a game invite consistently results in “Game session is no longer available” error message.

In some situations, PC players will enter a state where all invites are rejected after an original invite is successfully accepted. To resolve this, players must restart their title and try again.

Problem 18# Voice communication does not work over a LAN connection.

Both players must be signed into a Gamespy account for voice communication to work. Players can still connect via a Local Area Network, but communication will not be possible without an active Gamespy login.

Problem 19# Pre-order content will not unlock after removing content and reinstalling.

In order to restore pre-order content after it has been activated, please contact Gamespy Customer Support.

Problem 20# ‘Eye for an Eye’ achievement/trophy doesn’t unlock after killing the Eyes of Annuvin.

In order to unlock the achievement ‘Eye for an Eye’, the Eye of Annuvin must be killed in one shot.

Problem 21# Player characters start drinking Sleg without player input.

This is the result of Sleg addiction. If the player has consumed a sufficient amount of sleg, they will activate all Sleg pickups automatically.

Problem 22# Player cannot find co-op matches with friends in other regions of the world.

Co-op matchmaking only finds players in your region of the world. On PC, you can send a private invite to play with friends.

PC TIP: How to Port Forward

Detailed Guide on how you can forward your ports for all the multiplayer games.

Note: May not work for all routers but will provide a basic outline on how you should go about forwarding your ports.

Step 1
Go to the “Run” in start menu and type “cmd” (without quotes) and click OK. See Example

Step 2
Next a black window will pop up. Type “ipconfig” (without quotes) and hit enter. See Example

Step 3
List of words and numbers will pop up. You will only need the Default Gateway IP Address and the IPv4 Address IP Adress.
Default Gateway
IPv4 Address

Step 4
Open your web browser and type the Default Gateway IP address in the address of your web browser and hit enter. See Example

Step 5
For the user name type in “admin” (without quotes) and the password you either leave blank or type in “password” (without quotes) or “admin”. You can use portfowarding.com to check more about your router. See Example

Step 6
After logging in, on the right you should see an option for Port Forwarding/Port Triggering. Click it. See Example

Step 7
Now click on “Add service” and you should see a few fields like service name, service type, starting port, ending port and server IP address.

Service Name: Add any name you want.
Service Type: Leave as is TCP/UDP
Starting Port: Put ‘Port Starting Port Address say 7777?
Ending Port: Put ‘Port Ending Port Address say 7777?
Server IP Address: Put the IPv4 Address in. See Example

Step 8
After that hit apply and then add another service, but in the starting and ending port fields put “8766?. Your services should look like this now.

I’m sure you will encounter Hunted: Demon’s Forge Crash Fix issues and errors not posted above, so please post below so that the community can help you out!