Xfire explained

[Robske007a]

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another attemt to resurrect this thread because everyone needs to have Xfire

4 days no replys, prolly because of the patch information... well eeh

[Hidus]

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Thanks for the post, I'm going to check it out.

As for the comments about "an xfire buddy tried to hack my machine" I can't speak specifically about xfire but I can say that many apps such as this where there is traffic going directly from one client to another on various oddball ports it's going to raise flags if you are running some sort of security software suite. It doesn't necessarily mean someone is trying to hack you and quite possibly is just normal network traffic for that particular application.

[poisonsoul]

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X-Fire doesn't work with PeerGuardian :dead:

Well I've finally got an X-Fire account and boy I don't know which I should keep PeerGuardian or X-Fire, but they don't work together. :cry:

[DisposableHero]

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i've never had a single problem with xfire. i've been using it for nearly 2 years now. i highly recommend it. also, when you're done making your xfire account post your name in the xfire name thread.

[DieFledermaus]

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Thats a big sig rob. 550X180. Now for Xfire it lags me down in BF2 so i got rid of it. No one cares if you have 100 hours in BF2 the whole week.

[whoster69]

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I've got a question about Xfire. A friend of mine and I recently started evaluating it for use with our squad (four of us who play). We've been using TeamSpeak but thought Xfire might be better because it includes a browser and we all know how badly the BF2 browser sucks. Anyway, my friend is on ISDN (I'm on DSL). The one time we've tried it so far he had more lag while using Xfire than with TeamSpeak. Does Xfire use more bandwidth? How about resources?

Does anyone have any good info/data on this? I thought it sounded better than the TS server we were using.

Thanks.

[Robske007a]

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I've got a question about Xfire. A friend of mine and I recently started evaluating it for use with our squad (four of us who play). We've been using TeamSpeak but thought Xfire might be better because it includes a browser and we all know how badly the BF2 browser sucks. Anyway, my friend is on ISDN (I'm on DSL). The one time we've tried it so far he had more lag while using Xfire than with TeamSpeak. Does Xfire use more bandwidth? How about resources?

Does anyone have any good info/data on this? I thought it sounded better than the TS server we were using.

Thanks.

Well, you have to change some options in the main screen, you have to disable the 'autodownload/upload' thingy then it takes as much bandwith as TS, I have a DSL line too, and i don't expirience any lag

[Robske007a]

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Thats a big sig rob. 550X180. Now for Xfire it lags me down in BF2 so i got rid of it. No one cares if you have 100 hours in BF2 the whole week.

Something wrong with me siggy? tought it was ok by the rules...

[subzero nautica]

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I used to use Xfire. I agree it is a great program. However one of my friends detected someone trying to hack into his computer thru someone's computer on his buddy list.

Thats why you get a router w/firewall, plus nortan internet security and enable microsofts XP firewall.

[f1tz0r]

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I'd scratch the Norton thing tbh. You are much better off just running a good firewall (the windows XP one is ok but a hardware one on your router is better) and regularly running AVG (which is free) to scan your system for nasties. Asside from a physical attack, which your firewall will stop (hopefully) the main way you get virii is by opening files / emails. Norton just sits in the background, eating resources and conflicting with every program under the sun.

[Komet.nl]

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lol wtf is that for strange avatar DieFlederMaus? You a nazi or something.. = Crap

Xfire Rocks never had problems with it I always run it with games the only problem I get with bf2 is that I still hear the loading music if am connecting to a server by Xfire.. And I already put the loading music OFF well another update today but It still isn't fixed..

[bisley]

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just use Vent / teamspeak n ask ya mates where they are .

[imported_idash]

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This is because bf2 now requires your username and password in the command-line when launching. Here's a quick fix until xfire updates:



- Go into your C:\Program Files\Xfire folder and open xfire_games.ini

- Find: [4578]

You should see something like this:
Code:[4578]
LongName=Battlefield 2
ShortName=bf2
Icon=bf2.ico
LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Electro nic Arts\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\InstallDir
LauncherExe=BF2.exe
LauncherPasswordArgs=+password %UA_GAME_HOST_PASSWORD%
LauncherNetworkArgs=+joinServer %UA_GAME_HOST_NAME% +port %UA_GAME_HOST_PORT% %UA_LAUNCHER_PASSWORD_ARGS%
Launch=%UA_LAUNCHER_EXE_PATH% +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 %UA_LAUNCHER_NETWORK_ARGS%
ServerStatusType=BF2
InGameRenderer=D3D9
InGameFlags=DISABLE_RELEASE|BLOCK_ASYNC
ExcludeIPPorts=80,28910,29900,29901,29902,29903,29 904

- Under "Launch=" append +username yourusername +playerPassword yourpassword

- It should now look like:

Code:Launch=%UA_LAUNCHER_EXE_PATH% +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 %UA_LAUNCHER_NETWORK_ARGS% +username yourusername +playerPassword yourpassword

- Restart Xfire

It should work like normal now, and it even bypasses the annoying account screen at the start! "(jb55)





*************((((+playerPassword ( uppercase P))))))************


Love my Xfire

[imported_Remmydox]

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Xfire is a bitch when playing BF2. Someone sends you massacre messages and you lag into the pits.