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by Lizard_King 11/28/2012, 1:20pm PST

There's a fix for some of the M+K issues here

Also, it's worth making sure that you have all your ports open for GFW live and DS specifically so that online play isn't an endless stream of failed connections.

GFWLIVE steps to network play in Windows 7. I am summarizing what other people have explained and don't understand any of it, I'm just putting it out there for clarification and critique as I suspect some are redundant.

1. Check your XBL settings in game to see if UPnP is accessible to the game and if your NAT is closed. Apparently, moderate or open will do.

2. This guide is from a Vista User, but many things are similar. The main thing is that you have to get that list of ports open in both Windows Firewall and your router. I did not notice a difference between dedicating UDP/TCP as both or individually. I would just use XBL/settings in-game to see if the status has changed. It does seem to be important to go with just individually allotted port forwards rather than just generically enabling UPnP on your router settings.

3. Windows firewall:

(a)-go to "allow a program through windows firewall". Make sure both Dark Souls and Games for Windows Marketplace are on the list. That should open the appropriate ports.

If for some reason you need to do it manually:

(b)-back up to Windows Firewall, then go to "advanced settings". Then create an inbound rule/ports/TCP and one for UDP (you can separate each of the ports with a comma). Not sure if you need to make an inbound and an outbound.I saw no difference between having this on in addition to (a), but the first step (where I had to add GFWM to my list) definitely moved it from no UPnP/moderate NAT to to using UPnP and Open NAT according to the GFWL settings/network tab.

4. Router: Go to port forwarding section of router administration page. Add the ports from the Vista guide in #2. Make sure generic UPnP is turned off. Or turned on. Sometimes it works better for me turned on. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

5. Go kill yourself when you do all this, GFWL seems happier, and Dark Souls still no closer to letting you summon. Regardless, some people have no issues with this but I figured I'd throw it out there in case people were anywhere near as router-incompetent as I am.