May 4th, 2012· Fixed an issue where video uploads would fail with the "413 Request Entity Too Large" error.
· Fixed some, if not all, HTTP request errors.
· Fixed a connection bug with 'Games For Windows Live' games.
· Fixed a bug where Battlefield 3 would crash when Xfire In-Game is enabled on DirectX 10 graphics cards.
· Improved frame rate on broadcasts for viewers.
· Fixed minor bugs with game definition parsing.
· Updated IME system and added IME support for XIG Web Browser.
· Changed spelling of "Minimize to notification bar" to "Minimize to notification area" in Options.
March 1st, 2012· Added ability to broadcast on Twitch.TV (replacing LiveStream)
· Adjusted Options menu tabs accordingly for Twitch.TV implementation
· Fixed crashing when navigating to Tools -> Options if using XSplit, ManyCam, and other webcam software
· Fixed some IME and XInput issues
· Fixed more bleed-through issues
· Minor changes
February 23rd, 2012· Added ability for the client to be minimized to the taskbar
· Added an option in Tools -> Options -> General to "Minimize to notification bar"
· Moved the webcam settings from the Xfire In-Game to Broadcast tab
· Added a webcam preview section to the Broadcast tab
· Fixed a bug where two webcams with the same name would not let you use the second webcam in a broadcast
· Fixed a bug where the 'Broadcast Microphone' checkbox was missing from the Xfire In-Game overlay
· Minor changes
February 3rd, 2012· Added support for Korean IME in Xfire In-Game
· Updated Xfire In-Game hooking code (NEW_INPUT_SYSTEM flag). This should fix various different issues in a lot of games.
· Fixed bleed-through issues in some games. More to come soon.
· Xfire now shows in your taskbar when activated.
· Minor fixes
December 19th, 2011· Added an option to upload videos taken in Xfire to your YouTube channel
· Added Facebook Chat to Tools -> Social Network Manager
· Fixed crashing for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and a bunch of other games
· Fixed Xfire In-Game for a lot more DirectX 10 & 11 games
· Released a new default Xfire skin (Phoenix), which is only available on the latest Xfire client download.
· Note: On Facebook Chat, use your Facebook Username to login. If you have not set-up a Username on Facebook, or do not remember it, go to this page and see the 'Username' field.
December 14th, 2011· Added an option to upload videos taken in Xfire to your YouTube channel
· Added Facebook Chat to Tools -> Social Network Manager
· Fixed crashing for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and a bunch of other games
· Fixed Xfire In-Game for a lot more DirectX 10 & 11 games
· Revamped the default Xfire skin. Phoenix is its new name. (Available only on latest Xfire client download)
December 4th, 2011· Removed a bunch of old and unused DX9 clean-up code that stopped the correct unhooking of functions in DX10/DX11. This resolved some crashes that occurred in WoW and other games on exit when resources were not correctly cleaned up.
· Added some new failsafe hooking checks and debug logging to ensure that hooks do not get attempted until they have passed another layer of sanity checks.
· Changed the hooks used for DX10 & DX11 to use ResizeBuffers instead of ClearState. A large range of games called ClearState many times per frame, which would result in a huge fps drop because it would clear all devices and bitmaps and they would need to be recreated every frame. Also ResizeBuffers is the new way in DX10/DX11 to know when the screen size changes. Without this hook, newer DX11 games were crashing on re-size or switching to Fullscreen mode.
· Added another layer of protection in the get screen size function to stop crashes that occurred when resizing certain games.
· Fixed a memory leak where the DX10 sprite proxy was never being cleaned up when exiting.
· Fixed an issue in DX10 where screenshots and video were not displaying the XIG interface because the sprites were not correctly getting flushed to the GPU.
· Fixed an issue where DX10 & DX11 games that used multi-sampled (anti-aliasing) back buffer would always result in black screenshots and video capture.
· Added full support for R10G10B10A2 back buffer format which fixed black screenshots and video capturing for any games that use that buffer format.
· Optimized the loop logic that grabs the pixels in the back buffer for all buffer formats. This was needed because some games were dropping to 15 fps (or less) when video capturing occurred.
· Changed the core DX11 render logic to use our own render target view instead of depending on the the render target view the game left us. This fixed a lot of games (Deus Ex, Dirt 3, Civ 5, etc) where the XIG windows would not render at all because the render target views were either cleared or left in an unusable state.
· Tweaked rendering support for: World of Warcraft, Bioshock 1 & 2, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Civilization 5, DiRT 3, Homefront, Dragon Age II, Red Fraction: Guerrilla, Dungeons & Dragons Online
· Enabled auto-login by default
· Enabled Broadcasting by default
October 13th, 2011· Improved client support for both DirectX 10 and 11
August 26th, 2011· Improved Localization Native Language support with non ASCII characters
· Due to a change with Twitter’s API, we have temporarily disabled it in the social network manager
· Authenticode Update
· Holding down the enter key in a chat room will no longer spam the user with spam warnings
· Fixed an issue where users were unable to register using the Xfire client. Users can now register from the Xfire client correctly
· Fixed an issue where clicking on an invalid link in the client could result in a crash
April 12th, 2011· Implemented chat room spam control. If a user attempts to spam a chat room, the spam isn’t received by the people in attendance, and they will receive the message: “You have attempted to send too many messages within a short amount of time. Please wait before you send another message.” Spamming a chat room will result in a permanent (non-appealable) ban from the Xfire network.
· OpenCandy (a system used to give users third party programs during install) has been removed from the Xfire installer;
· The Xfire installer’s EULA has been updated to reflect the removal of OpenCandy (i.e. that section has been removed from the EULA);
· Fixed an issue where users were unable to register using the Xfire client. Users can now register from the Xfire client correctly;
· Xfire XO Toolbar is now available for Chrome in alpha-test form. There are many known bugs, but you’re free to give it a try! (Web Game Detection is not supported on multiple tabs, and sometimes doesn’t work at all);
March 2nd, 2011· Fixed several issues with notifications
· Fixed text color display problem in chat window
June 2nd, 2010· Improved stability of Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger integration.
· Right-click Friends Online and select Social Network Manager to add support for 3rd party messaging systems.
· Fixed game detection for Dofus.
· New games supported
May 11th, 2010· Fixed several issues with manually selecting the install location of a game.
· Fixed several issues with Twitter integration.
· Improved the social network plugins (some alpha-quality features).
· New games supported
April 20th, 2010· Made improvements to the Twitter Social Network integration
· Fixed some memory leaks
· Fixed a crash on game detection
· Add a notification when you get disconnected from Social Network accounts
· Improved the audio when broadcasting video in Vista and Win7
· Removed the ASCIIfication of the website due to user input
· New games supported
March 30th, 2010· Many improvements to the notification system, including chat room invitations, community invitations, and AIM/MSN friend logon/logoff events.
· Improved manual configuration of game installation directories in Tools | Options | Games.
· Removed frame rate limit in live video broadcasts.
· Added support for DirectX 11 to Xfire In-Game (for Battlefield: Bad Company 2).
· Fixed some communication issues with Windows Media Player when setting your status from a music player.
· Added ability to rate and view screenshots on the Screenshot Home.
· New games supported
March 9th, 2010· Revamped notifications system to draw in a small window near your Windows tray
· Used for friend requests, new clan news, friend logon/logoff events, and system broadcasts
· More notifications will be available in future releases
· The notifications are skinned by Windows and hence will follow your Windows theme (such as Aero)
· Added support for setting custom status based on current songs for Winamp, Windows Media Player, and iTunes
· Smoothed out bandwidth usage by Live Video broadcasts.
· New games supported
February 18th, 2010· Added support to control WinAmp from Xfire In-Game.
· Fixed several issues controlling Windows Media Player from Xfire In-Game.
· Fixed some issues with webcam display in Xfire In-Game.
· Fixed an important issue with live video broadcast that could break the stream if you broadcast continuously for hours.
· Added the ability to block a user by inputting his or her username directly.
· Fixed an important memory leak.
· New games supported
January 26th, 2010· Fixed several issues with the Xfire In-Game music controls of iTunes and Windows Media Player.
· Improved performance of Live Video broadcasts, particularly when broadcasting game audio and a microphone.
· Improved the interface to administering communities (clans & guilds).
· New games supported
January 5th, 2010· Added a notification in Xfire In-Game when you receive a friend invite allowing you to respond at your leisure.
· Fixed many small issues with the Twitter integration.
· Added the *beta* ability in Xfire In-Game to control iTunes and Windows Media Player. Press Scroll Lock + M to try it out.
· Added several mouse cursors in Xfire In-Game that change based on what it is pointing at (hand for links, etc.)
· The push-to-talk key is now used to answer voice calls in Xfire In-Game.
· New games supported
December 2nd, 2009· Added the ability to post and read tweets as they happen using Xfire. Select Tools | Manage Third Party Social Networks to add your Twitter account to Xfire.
· Added the ability to broadcast both microphone and game audio simultaneously on Vista and Windows 7.
· Improved the layout of the Tools | Options dialog box.
· Fixed a problem logging into MSN after changing your MSN password.
November 10th, 2009· Added an optional webcam overlay in Xfire In-Game, which can be useful for screenshots, video capture, and live video broadcast.
· Fixed some performance and crash issues with live video broadcast.
· Reduced the default bandwidth use of live video broadcast.
· Fixed search in the forums.
New games supported:
October 20th, 2009· Improved performance when broadcasting Live Video.
· Added the ability to post a poll in community (clan and guild) forums.
· Added the Xfire XO toolbar as an option in the full installer.
· Fixed a game-hang that could happen with some older games when trying to chat in-game.
· Fixed icon-drawing problem on Windows Vista.
· Fixed a problem with voice-enabled chat rooms when the room creator leaves and rejoins.
New games supported:
September 29th, 2009· Added ability to set a descriptive title when broadcasting Live Video.
· Improved performance while broadcasting Live Video.
· Added ability to add friends in Xfire In-Game.
· Fixed Xfire In-Game to work in some OpenGL games.
· Fixed messages to AIM friends with certain unusual characters.
· New games supported
September 9th, 2009Many changes to Live Video (beta):
· Reduced default broadcast bandwidth usage
· Reduced CPU usage while broadcasting (though it is still significant)
· Fixed many smaller problems
· Fixed problems with logging into @msn.com accounts
· Fixed a problem logging in if you have over 5000 remote screenshots
· Fixed a serious problem some users experienced if IE8 is installed
· Vastly improved community search
· New games supported
August 18th, 2009· Added Clan/Guild favorite game servers to the servers tab.
· When you capture video in-game using Scroll Lock + V, you can now upload those videos straight from the post-game dialog box.
· Changed the Live Video system as part of our new partnership with Livestream. No web plugin is required to watch live video any longer and there is no longer any cap on the number of viewers.
· Fixed a problem with listing all remote screenshots when you have a very large collection.
· Added the ability to embed any video on other web sites. The embed code is shown on every video page.
· New games supported
July 28th, 2009· Fixed problem with AIM integration for usernames and passwords with uncommon characters.
· Fixed out-of-memory problem with some Call of Duty 2 installations.
· Added sorting and filtering to Video Search results.
· Fixed several mistakes in translations.
· New games supported
July 7th, 2009· Added group display in the friends list display in Xfire In-Game.
· Fix caps lock key to work in Xfire In-Game.
· Added the ability to cancel a voice call before the receiver answers.
· More improvements to AIM support.
· Large update to German translation on the web site.
· New games supported
June 16th, 2009· Many improvements and bug fixes for AIM users.
· Added the AIM icon in the friends list when you have AIM friends.
· Added support for the Russian language.
· Fixed several performance issues during long-term voice chats.
· Added the ability to create clans that have unlimited membership. Members do not show up on each others' friend lists, but can use the forums, clan news, and event calendars. These clans do not count against the limit of 5 clans you can join.
· Improved voice chat one-to-one behavior when both users hang up simultaneously.
· New beta Xfire XO Toolbar for web games now available.
· Future releases of the Xfire application will be available through the Xfire Beta Testing Team. Anyone who wants to beta test Xfire is invited to join.
New games supported:
May 27th, 2009· Added many keyboard shortcuts to the Xfire In-Game web browser.
· Added AIM account manager (Tools | Manage Instant Messenger Accounts)
· Added infoview display to AIM friends.
· Added group importing to AIM accounts.
· Fixed problem with installing Xfire on Windows 7 (release candidate).
· Fixed a few issues with the Logitech G15 keyboard support on 64-bit operating systems.
· New games supported
May 5th, 2009· You can now use Xfire as an AIM client and can even trade messages with AIM friends in Xfire In-Game
· Right-click the Friends Online category to add access to an AIM account
· This is an alpha-quality feature and will continue to be enhanced
· Uploading multiple screenshots now uploads only one screenshot at a time
· Fixed a serious Xfire In-Game delay when you have a lot of online friends
· Fixed many small issues with Xfire In-Game
· New games supported
April 14th, 2009· Changed the Xfire In-Game interface to include a status bar and easier configuration.
· The old default skin (named Xfire) is now officially deprecated and will not gain new features. You may still choose to use it if you have it.
· Fixed a system vulnerability with deleting a large number of screenshots simultaneously.
March 24th, 2009· Browser now enabled for all XIG 2.0 games.
· Behind the scenes changes for XIG for 1.107.
· Client rejoins chatrooms gracefully after a chat server restart.
· UAC Vista/XP guest account fixes.
· New games supported
March 3rd, 2009· Many bug fixes and improvements to the Xfire In-Game web browser (Scroll Lock + W).
· Added warning message on personal file transfers.
· Restore send-message sound in the classic sound pack.
· Improve sound recording options in Vista.
· Fixed several problems with flashback video recording.
February 10th, 2009· Added tabbed browsing to the web browser in Xfire In-Game. Hit Scroll Lock + W while playing any of dozens of games to use it.
· Added new default sound pack.
· Fixed problem with saving the window location of Xfire on multi-monitor computers.
· Added the ability to capture sound in Vista using the Xfire Video Capture system (while playing a game press Scroll Lock + V).
· Fixed problem with Call of Duty: World at War server info.
January 21st, 2009· Added a web browser to Xfire In-Game
· Fixed issues with parsing game server info from recent versions of Counter-Strike 1.6 and Source.
· New games supported
December 16th, 2008· Long-time users running the Xfire skin will be switched to the Shadow skin, in the old-colors Xfire theme, during this update. You may switch back if you so choose.
· Added the ability to change sounds through sound packs, which are zip files containing .wav files.
· Improved server information for Call of Duty: World at War.
· The Xfire In-Game web browser is now available in *beta* quality in Guild Wars, Dawn of War: Soulstorm, and Unreal Tournament 2004.
· Live Video broadcasts now let you chat with the broadcaster directly from the broadcast web page.
· New games supported: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Lords of Evil Street Gears Dynasty Warriors 6 FIFA Manager 09 Pokemon World Online Eets Bodog Poker Mr. Robot AssaultCube Pyroblazer Mosby's Confederacy Eudemons Online Gothic III - Forsaken Gods Cross Fire Beta Football Manager 2009 Grand Theft Auto IV Shin Megami Tensei Imagine Online Shaun White Snowboarding Legendary Zero Online I-Fluid Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive Defense Grid: The Awakening Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Prince of Persia
November 25th, 2008· Added a new theme to the Shadow skin to match the old default skin's colors.
· Added a web search box to the bottom of the main window infoview.
· Added game server info to Call of Duty: World at War.
· Further improvements to the live video system will launch on the web site during the first week of December.
New games supported:
November 5th, 2008· Increased the number of simultaneous chat rooms you can visit to 10.
· Fixed several issues that caused the Xfire In-Game interface to become out of sync when joining chat rooms and voice chats.
· Fixed a crash in Far Cry when using the mouse wheel at certain times.
· Fixed a problem that did not update online users' clan members list when a new member joins a clan.
· Fixed several issues with setting duplicate key bindings in Tools | Options.
New games supported:
October 14th, 2008· Improved handling of chat room and voice chat invitations in Xfire In-Game.
· Added special type of chat room for discussing your live video broadcasts.
· You are always the administrator of your own chat room.
· Improved the interface to edit your settings on the web site.
· Fixed a crash with *alpha* live video broadcasts.
· Fix some keys leaking through Xfire In-Game to a game.
New games supported:
September 23rd, 2008· Added an edit box on the Chat tab to join a chat room by name
· Added the ability for admins and moderators of chat rooms to silence everyone else
· Added a chat room option to not show user enter/leave messages
· Fixed a problem with the Tools | Options | Broadcast option to only allow your friends to see broadcast
· Fixed broken game join button on chat windows
· Fixed looping problems when in a voice chat and then testing your mic in Tools | Options | Voice
· Fixed a problem with launching some games on Vista with UAC enabled.
· Fixed a video capture and broadcast problem that would record the wrong sound stream.
· Updated some language strings for Swedish and Hungarian.
· Added an advertisement on the chat room window. This is to support Xfire-hosted voice servers which will be live (beta) very soon.
September 3rd, 2008· Major revamp in progress for Chat Rooms.
· Room names must be ascii strings
· Rooms can be joined by name
· Rooms can be password protected, but you can invite a friend without telling him/her the password
· Note: all previously saved chat rooms have been cleared because of these changes. We do not expect to need to clear saved rooms again.
· Reorganized Tools | Options | Video dialog.
· Fixed display of remote videos and chat rooms when logging off and back on to Xfire as a different user.
· Fixed problem with some Call of Duty 4 servers not showing up in All Servers.
· Added game server info to Frontlines: Fuel of War.
· Fixed a few bugs with video capture and flashback enabled.
· Broadcasting *alpha* now supports video resolution changes without ending the broadcast.
· When starting a broadcast, you are placed in a chat room to discuss the broadcast.
· New games supported
August 12th, 2008· Fixed the typing notification message in Shadow skin chat windows so that they are fully visible.
· Fixed several video capture bugs with larger videos.
· Fixed several UI inconsistencies with the mute button.
· Fixed encoding issues with non-ASCII characters when editing screenshot and video descriptions.
· Added game server information to Frontlines: Fuel of War.
Coming 2008-08-14:
· Teaser of the Activity Report in the infoview.
· Massively increased limits of screenshot and video storage.
· New games supported
July 22nd, 2008· Added the option in Tools | Options | Video to enable flashback, which maintains a buffer in memory of a few seconds of video as you play a game. When you press Scroll Lock V to record a video, the video starts recording a few seconds in the past.
· Added a new encoded videos section to the Videos tab.
· Added a thumbtack to allow the chat room voice chat overlay in Xfire In-Game to be hidden.
· Added a self-mute button on chat windows for voice chats.
· Added a right-click menu item to mute other people in a group chat room
· Fixed many minor voice chat problems.
· Added ability to flag videos as only appropriate for adults.
New games supported:
July 1st, 2008· Video capture in Xfire In-Game (Scroll Lock V) is now enabled by default for everyone. Please try capturing and sharing some videos!
· Unified voice overlay/configuration window in Xfire In-Game.
· Fixed several opacity and drawing errors with the voice overlay in Xfire In-Game.
· Fixed display problem when editing voice chat settings in a chat room.
· Fixed several performance issues on Windows Vista 64-bit.
· Fixed corruption problem when taking a screenshot (Scroll Lock S) in a full-screen game, changing to windowed mode, and then taking another screenshot.
· New games supported
June 10th, 2008· Fixed several display problems with the activity report when you are logged in to the Xfire web site.
· Added ability to search for videos on the Xfire web site.
· Improved display of video capture data after exiting a game (go to Tools | Options | Video to learn more).
· Added video search box to infoviews in the videos tab.
· Fixed a possible crash with some games in Vista (including Lord of the Rings Online).
· Fixed several display problems with non-ASCII characters in screenshot descriptions.
· New games supported
May 20th, 2008· Added support for Polish language
· Launched new, wider web site with your personal activity report about your friends.
· Added Xfire In-Game support to 64-bit games: Crysis, Hellgate: London, and Half-Life 2.
· Added the ability to see who is talking in a group voice chat in Xfire In-Game.
· Fixed audio sync issue with some video conversion issues.
· Added ability to bind push-to-talk for voice chat to a mouse button.
· Increased Xfire startup speed when you have many games installed.
April 29th, 2008· Magyar nyelv tmogatsa (Added support for Hungarian language--discuss translation errors in this forum thread).
· Improved the in-game overlay when capturing a video to include video duration and file size.
· Added capability to detect some 64-bit games.
· Improved voice chat performance on certain sound cards.
· Fixed a problem that caused many video uploads to return an unknown error.
· Fixed many small problems with video conversion and uploading.
· Added Cool/Lame ratings to the video player on the web site. View top-rated videos on the Xfire home page.
· The video tab automatically refreshes if you modify the video directory from another program.
April 26th, 2008· *beta* Added remote videos to the videos tab.
· *beta* Added recent videos in infoviews when you select a friend.
· *beta* Video uploads now work with videos that can be rendered with DirectShow filters on your computer. In particular, if you edit a video with Windows Movie Maker, Xfire will be able to convert it and upload it to your profile page.
· *beta* Video capture can now create .avi files larger than 2 gigabytes.
· *beta* Upload progress is displayed properly during video uploads.
· *beta* Fixed sound device screwup after capturing audio with a video.
· Standard skin is no longer being maintained or distributed; old versions of this skin do still work, however.
· Xfire full installer no longer works on Windows 98 or Windows ME; previously installed copies of Xfire will continue to auto-upgrade and function.
March 17th, 2008· Increased the screenshot limit of uploaded images from 15MB to 150MB.
· *beta* Added the ability to upload game videos to your profile page. Read more in the FAQ.
· Fixed bug with xfcodec.dll causing other AVI files to load improperly.
· Fixed CPU load issue with chat rooms with lots of people in them.
· Reworked voice chat internals to work much better on certain poorly-performing sound devices.
· Fixed Shadow skin display bug with non-default text size.
· Added buttons to the chat, screenshot, and video tabs on Shadow skin.
February 26th, 2008· Changed the tabs in the Shadow skin to be vertical buttons. Chat Rooms, Screenshots and Videos now have their own buttons.
· Fixed many small graphical glitches in the Shadow skin.
· Reinstated the World of Warcraft infoview with character information.
· Fixed a synchronization issue if you receive a chat room invitation in Xfire In-Game but alt-tab and accept it out of game
· New games supported: 9Dragons, Feeding Frenzy 2 Deluxe, Bejeweled Deluxe, Bejeweled 2 Deluxe, Chuzzle Deluxe, Insaniquarium Deluxe, AstroPop Deluxe, Iggle Pop Deluxe, Zuma Deluxe, Dynomite Deluxe, Big Money Deluxe, Heavy Weapon Deluxe, Pizza Frenzy Deluxe, Hammer Heads Deluxe, Typer Shark Deluxe, Rail Simulator, Bookworm Deluxe, Bookworm Adventures Deluxe, Sins of a Solar Empire, The Sims Castaway Stories, Thrillville: Off the Rails, Secret of the Solstice, CABAL Online: The Revolution of Action, Holic, Racer Beta, FIFA Manager 08, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Conflict: Denied Ops, Harley-Davidson Race to the Rally, Manga Fighter, and Audiosurf.
January 15th, 2008· Standardized and improved the system messages in group chats.
· Fixed the ability to disable Xfire In-Game in Tools | Options | Games in case of problems.
· Improved the rendering speed of Xfire In-Game 2.0.
· Added the *beta* ability to capture video using Xfire. You can enable this for testing by going to Tools | Options | Video
· New games supported: BMW M3 Challenge, Dofus, Quake (Steam), SEGA Rally Revo, Planeshift, Alpha Prime, Ghost in the Sheet, Ascension, Speedball 2 - Tournament, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Fiesta, Universe At War: Earth Assault, RACE 07, Battle for the Pacific, Warmonger - Operation: Downtown Destruction, Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, Shogun: Total War, Shaiya, The Golden Compass, and Dream Of Mirror Online
December 11th, 2007· Today marks the official release of the Clans and Guilds system! Track your clan mates, post in forums, and never miss a clan event again!
· Clan/Guild news posted while you are running Xfire will be displayed as a balloon tooltip attached to the Xfire icon in the system tray.
· Clan/Guild logos changed while you are running Xfire will update immediately in the infoview.
· Fixed a problem when you log off of Xfire while uploading screenshots.
· Fixed display of World of Warcraft data in the infoview.
· Added server information for Unreal Tournament 3.
· Fixed a problem that could cause Call of Duty 4 to crash while running Xfire and changing resolutions.
· Fixed a problem that could cause Ventrilo on Vista to crash on Xfire exit.
· New games supported: Dawn of Magic, You Are Empty, Guitar Hero III, Need for Speed ProStreet, Beowulf, Simcity Societies, Pinball Wizards: Balls of Steel Demo, Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, BlackSite: Area 51, Soldier of Fortune: Payback, Viva Pinata, WolfTeam, Fantasy Wars, Unreal Tournament 3, Avencast: Rise of The Mage, Next Life, Risk, Instinct, Gothic, Kane and Lynch: Dead Men, Exteel, The Office, Escape From Paradise City, Catz 2, Dogz 2, and Horsez 2.
October 30th, 2007· When you select a person on your friends list, the infoview now shows the clans that person is in. This is part of our *beta* clans & guilds system.
· Fixed an issue that prevented laptops from going into S3 low-power mode when Xfire was running and sounds were enabled.
· Added game server information for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
· Improved many minor user interface elements in Xfire In-Game 2.0.
· New games supported: KartRider, CSI: Hard Evidence, UFO: Afterlight, Portal, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, FIFA 08, Loki, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Demo, Unreal Tournament 3 Demo, Project Torque, Sid Meier's SimGolf, Legends, Brain Spa, Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East, Fury, and Hellgate: London Demo.
September 18th, 2007· Lots of fixes and improvements to mouse and keyboard input blocking for XIG
· Non-admin users to be able to use Xfire again
· Lots of minor Shadow skin improvemnts
· A small fix when changing download directory
· Fixed leak when resizing XIG in OGL based games
· Fixed crash on exit issue
· Under Vista, City of Heroes can be launched from Xfire
August 28th, 2007· There is a new Xfire skin called Shadow
· When you select a person in the main friends list, their avatar will be shown in the infoview. You can set your avatar on the edit profile page.
· Added searching for clans and guilds on the *beta* clans and guilds page.
· Changed graphs for kill/death statistics on your profile pages to a javascript-based graph system that allows fast zooming.
· New games supported: Metin 2, Tabula Rasa Beta, Warhammer Online Beta, Avencast, 2Moons, DANCE! Online, Madden NFL 08, Shadowrun, FreeStyle Street Basketball, BioShock Demo, and Bioshock.
August 7th, 2007· The friend limit has been increased to 1000. Many people have asked for this. Does anyone really have that many friends?
· Xfire In-Game now works with games that run with elevated permission on Windows Vista. If you have any of these games then you will need to allow Xfire to run elevated when you are prompted.
· The new Xfire In-Game interface that uses the mouse is enabled for Guild Wars and the Dawn of War games.
· Added the ability to preview your friends' blogs in the infoview.
· Added the ability to join your friends' Ventrilo servers.
· Better support for running Xfire on Windows XP as a non-administrator user.
· Fixed Xfire In-Game key pass-through in FEAR.
· Improved several translations in Dutch, French, and other languages.
· New games supported: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, D.i.R.T. - Origin of the Species, Hospital Tycoon, Mount & Blade, World in Conflict - BETA, Mysteries of the Sith, Sword of the New World, Transformers - The Game, Insurgency - Modern Infantry Combat, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, Kwonho, Penumbra Overture Ep1, Taito Legends 2, Dungeon Runners, 3D Model Trains, Civilization IV - Beyond the Sword, Baseball Mogul 2007, MicroMachines V4, Catz, Dogz, and Rappelz Epic4
July 13th, 2007Revamped Xfire to work better on Windows Vista (because of UAC). On Vista:
· Most Xfire files are now placed in c:programdataxfire.
· Xfire itself runs non-elevated for this one release.
· Xfire In-Game now works with most games that do not themselves run elevated.
· If set to run on system startup, Xfire now properly launches on startup.
· Multiple Windows users can use Xfire on the same machine successfully.
· See games disabled on Vista for more game details.
· The infoview of your friends will show their screenshots when they are in a game.
· Fixed several relatively uncommon crashes with Xfire In-Game and Call of Duty 2.
· Lots of bug fixes and improvements to the new Xfire In-Game interface, currently only enabled in the Dawn of War games, including scroll wheel support, page up/page down support, and much more.
· New games supported: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter - Quidditch World Cup (I can't wait for book 7!), Sword of the Stars - Born of Blood, Audition, DiRT, Tremulous, Enemy Territory - QUAKE Wars Beta, The Sims 2 H&M Fashion Stuff, The Sims Pet Stories, Overlord, Monster Madness - Battle for Suburbia, Lost Planet Extreme Condition.
June 19th, 2007· New Xfire In-Game interface, using the mouse, is in beta testing! It is enabled for all Dawn of War games.
· Fixed a game detection issue for some people with World of Warcraft and Warcraft III.
· Displaying friends' screenshots in the infoview was enabled last release, but it was so popular that it caused some server problems. We expect to reenable this within days.
· Improved the profile page web interface to display screenshots.
· New games supported: Crazy Taxi, Last Chaos USA, The Sims 2 Deluxe, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Broken Sword - The Sleeping Dragon, Syberia, Syberia2, Voyage Century Online, Sauerbraten, Dogz 4, Freeciv - beta, Tibia, UFO - Extraterrestrial, Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End, Halo 2, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Red Alert - A Path Beyond, Entropia Universe, World of Padman, Populous - The Beginning, Populous - The Beginning - Undiscovered Worlds, Tomb Raider - Anniversary, Baldur's Gate II, Birth of America, and Neverwinter Nights 2 AMD 64 Version.
May 30th, 2007· Added notifications in the Xfire application when a *beta* clan/guild event is about to happen.
· Added upcoming clan events to the infoview when you select a clan.
· Added kill/death statistics to Call of Duty United Offensive. If you play CODUO online, check out your profile page to see your statistics soon after you finish a game session.
· Added the ability to drag and drop files to a chat window to send a file.
· Reduced the CPU usage of Xfire when it polls for games every 5 seconds.
· Added a gaming blog feature which is displayed on your profile page as well.
· Fixed a problem with the automatic update system that could cause abort/retry/ignore prompts.
· Changed screenshots on profile pages to .jpg files to display much faster.
· Fixed several small problems with group voice chats.
· Improved Xfire In-Game performance with Lord of the Rings Online.
· Fixed a huge possible CPU usage problem with accessing World of Warcraft armory data when viewing a user playing that game.
· New games supported: Resident Evil 4, Ancient Wars - Sparta, Spider-Man 3, Frontline - Fields of Thunder, Broken Sword - The Angel of Death, Cricket 07, Chess Titans, Inkball, Mahjong Titans, Purble Place, Hold 'Em, Brian Lara International Cricket 2007, LMA Manager 2007, UEFA Champions League 2006-2007, FIFA Manager 07, Virtua Tennis 3, Boiling Point, Cellfactor Revolution, and Infernal.
May 4th, 2007· Added support for /me in chat windows. Type /me likes updates in a chat window to try it out.
· Fixed a problem with Xfire In-Game with Quake 4 in multiple CPU mode.
· Added *beta* support for Xfire In-Game in Vista when the game is not launched from Xfire. If you are running Vista, please help us test by following these instructions.
· Added different server types for Call of Duty, Call of Duty United Offensive, and Call of Duty 2. This will fix display issues with server IPs that run multiple of these server types at different times.
· Fixed a slowness problem when launching Xfire after Internet Explorer 7 is running.
· Fixed a crash bug when blocking certain users from contacting you.
· Fixed a bug updating Xfire while running from a U3 memory stick.
· Fixed a bug causing personal file transfers to fail when you had an invalid default download directory.
· Fixed several display bugs with the World of Warcraft infoview.
· Fixed Xfire In-Game with Dungeons & Dragons Online - Stormreach.
· New games supported: Baseball Mogul 2008, Genesis Rising, Call of Juarez, The Lord of the Rings Online, The Sims 2 Celebration! Stuff, ArmA, Tortuga - Two Treasures, Europa Universalis III, Winning Eleven Pro Evolution Soccer 2007, and Race - The WTCC Game.
April 13th, 2007· Added the ability to show off your World of Warcraft characters in Xfire infoviews.
· Go to your profile page and add your WoW character name/realm/region to your account
· You must have WoW hours on your profile to see the input area.
· Your friends will now see your character data in the infoview.
· To view your own data, add yourself to your friends list and view yourself.
· All data is provided by The Armory.
· More details are available in the FAQ.
· Added kill/death statistics to Call of Duty. If you play CoD online, check out your profile see see your statistics soon after you finish a game session.
· When many game installers finish, we can now automatically detect that the new game is installed immediately without requiring an Xfire restart. If you find installers where this does not work, please post this information in our forums.
· Chat rooms with auto-selected voice servers now continue even when the voice host leaves.
· Changed the add friend dialog to be embedded in the main window.
· Improved the post-game dialog when you've taken a screenshot with Scroll Lock S; it should now work properly even when switching a game between windowed mode and full screen mode.
· Added the "last seen" day to profile pages when the user is offline.
· Added the beginnings of an event calendar system to the *beta* Clans & Guilds system.
· Fixed a bug that caused a bad login loop with auto-login enabled when you enter an incorrect password.
· Fixed a bug with uploading Xfire crashes to help us fix bugs.
· Fixed the game names of numerous Steam titles which were incorrectly listed either without colons or as version 1.6.
· Added support for Steam versions of Civilization IV, Battlestations Midway, and Silverfall and the EA Link version of The Sims 2 Seasons.
· New games supported: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl, TMNT, Silent Hunter Wolves of the Pacific, Silverfall, Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars, Test Drive Unlimited, 18 Wheels of Steel Haulin, rFactor, and Half-Life Deathmatch: Source.
March 2nd, 2007· Added kill/death statistics to all Medal of Honor: Allied Assault games.
· Added the most recently played game to the top of the Tools | Launch menu.
· Added the ability to detect all games at the bottom of the Tools | Launch menu.
· Fixed Xfire screenshots (Scroll Lock S) for Battlefront 1 & 2 and games with 2x and 4x antialiasing.
· Simplified the add friend interface.
· Added reporting of errors when opening a file to save a personal file transfer from a friend.
· Fixed problem with extra line ending characters in chat logs.
· Fixed extraneous lines when ending a chat in chat logs.
· Fixed detection of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.
· Fixed joining servers with an rcon password.
· Fixed scrolling problem when resizing chat windows horizontally.
· Fixed drawing problem with maximized chat windows when the infoview is open or closed.
· Fixed support and in-game issues with Trackmania Original and TM Sunshine.
· New games supported: Mythos, Soldier Front, The Sims Life Stories, Maelstrom, The Curse of Monkey Island, Escape from Monkey Island, TMNT Demo, Warhammer Mark of Chaos MP Demo, Trackmania United, Absolute Poker.com, Doyles Room.com, Everest Poker.com, Full Tilt Poker.com, Paradise Poker.com, PKR.com, Ultimate Bet.com, WPTOnline.com, and Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars Demo.
August 11th, 2006· Added support for the Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard. The first bit of every message you receive will be displayed in the LCD in the keyboard.
· Improved the Tools | Options | Games configuration process for Sony Station games.
· Updated the flow of the user registration process.
· Added group chat lobby support for Heroes III, Flight Sim 2004, Risk II, and several MechWarrior games.
· Improved log parsing for game statistics for Quake 3 and Jedi Academy Multiplayer.
· The servers tab is now updated when you manually configure a game in Tools | Options | Games.
· Fixed detection of Half-Life 2 Lost Coast and Red Orchestra Ostfront 41-45 (Steam).
· New games supported: Land of the Dead, Sword of the Stars Demo, Civilization IV - Warlords, CivCity Rome, OutRun2006 Coast 2 Coast, Glory of the Roman Empire, Sacrifice, MechWarrior 3, Dawn of War Dark Crusade, MechWarrior 4 Black Knight, Dungeon Siege II Broken World, and Flatout 2.
June 30th, 2006· Added detailed game statistics for Jedi Academy Multiplayer.
· Added the ability to automatically upload your game rig information to your profile page.
· Added the ability to display all raw server information in infoviews for games with server information.
· Added group chat game lobby support to Age of Empires, Age of Empires: Rise of Rome, Age of Empires II: The Conquerors, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds: The Clone Campaigns, and Imperial Glory.
· Added an improved locking out system for people who try to steal passwords.
· Added a string variable for custom infoviews based on whether the user has the friend's game installed or not (%game_installed%) for our friends at SOE.
· Converted the standard skin (not the default Xfire skin) to our new XML file format.
· Added Xfire In-Game to Rollercoaster Tycoon and Dune 2000.
· Fixed Xfire In-Game for Silkroad Online and Maplestory.
· Fixed a problem that could terminate one-to-one and group voice chats on various network events.
· Fixed a few problems that could lead to a hung client window on multiple reconnect errors or update errors.
· Fixed a problem that could cause more than 10 recently visited servers to be shown in the servers tab.
· Fixed some drawing issues with Friends' Favorite Servers.
· New games supported: Rogue Squadron, Star Wars Starfighter, Stacked, Asheron's Call, The Movies Stunts & Effects, SimCity 3000, Game Tycoon, Total Overdose, Rush For Berlin, Xpand Rally, Locomotion, Dungeon Lords, Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006, Freedom Fighters, Prey Demo, Onimusha 3, Warsow, and Albatross18.
June 9th, 2006· Added the option in Tools | Options | Chat to increase or decrease the text size in chat windows and the main list view.
· Added a context menu item on the Friends list view to view chat log.
· Added the ability to preload most of a file before its official release time, and then complete it after it is officially available in the download system. We will be testing this soon.
· Continued improving the game stats in Quake 3 from client game logs. To see them, play Quake 3 and then check out your profile page.
· Improved the DirectDraw handler for Xfire In-Game to be able to add more DirectDraw games in future releases.
· Improved messages in the Tools | Options | Games dialog.
· Updated translations for 12 non-English languages.
· Fixed a problem when you create a group of friends with a name that is too long.
· Fixed a scrolling problem with new chat windows created from conversations started while playing a game.
· Fixed detection of Everquest, Gunz: The Duel, and all other games using PlayingDetectType=ByWindow.
· Fixed game icons for games added in game updates.
· Fixed a problem with auto-AFK when xfire_toucan.dll did not load properly.
· Fixed numerous small interface bugs with user to user file transfers.
· New games supported: Heroes of Might and Magic V, City of Heroes Test Server, City of Villains Test Server, Dreamfall, GameTap, Hitman Blood Money, Half-Life 2 Episode One, Black & White 2 Battle of the Gods, The Longest Journey, Shadowgrounds, The Da Vinci Code, Star Trek Armada II, Star Trek Away Team, Hidden: Source, Goldeneye: Source, Kreedz Climbing, Empires.
March 30th, 2006· Improved the dialog that is displayed after you take a screenshot in game with Scroll Lock S and then leave the game.
· Improved Xfire's startup time when you have numerous screenshots saved.
· Changed the name of new screenshot files to include the abbreviated game name and the date/time that the screenshot was taken.
· Improved the look and performance of the Battlefield 2 infoview and the Display Ranks button.
· Improved game lobbies from group chat rooms to give more feedback about the game status.
· Improved the layout of numerous dialogs, especially the Tools | Options dialog.
· Changed persistent group chat rooms to be stored in our database. This means you can access your persistent group chats from multiple machines more easily.
· Improved the speed at which you can login right after we perform a mandatory update (cross your fingers!).
· Fixed a few bugs with saving the order of custom groups.
· Fixed the Tools | Options | Games tab to work properly for some Steam games.
· Fixed a lot of small bugs in the voice system.
· Fixed a problem with direct friend file transfers that could interrupt you in a game. Also fixed some crashes with direct friend file transfers.
· Fixed Xfire In-Game for Age of Empires III after changing resolutions.
· Fixed Xfire In-Game for Guild Wars (this awesome game switched to Direct3D 9).
· Updated the Help | About dialog.
· Fixed a bug with setting your voice activation key in the Tools | Options | Voice dialog and then changing tabs.
· New games supported: Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2006, Deer Hunter 2003, Deer Hunter 2004, Deer Hunter 2005, Myst, Riven, Myst III Exile, Myst IV Revelation, Myst V End of Ages, Auto Assault Beta, Dungeons & Dragons Online - Stormreach, The Sims 2 Open for Business, SWAT 4 - The Stetchkov Syndicate, NCAA Championship Run 2006, Dark Age of Camelot - Darkness Rising, The Godfather, Red Orchestra (Steam), and Oblivion.
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