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[Steam] MELE Launcher fails to open. What's port 3216?
It's somewhat funny that I have 60 hours clocked in the steam version but as I finished ME1 and got onto ME2 the launch problems progressed significantly to the point where the game won't launch at a...
Aha, the answer was in the BF-V forum all along 😃
tl;dr: windows will reserve some ports for its hyper-v nat. that also includes docker-for-win (https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/3171).
If you run `netsh int ip show excludedportrange protocol=tcp` and see any region over the 3216 port then it's exactly it: windows won't allow the EA app to bind to the port, the steam link won't work,. everything gets broken.
You can verify the fix by running `net stop winnat`. The ports are still unused after you start it back, it's exclusive to the docker screw-up.
It's time to take Earth back.
