Xfire Updated to 1.49

[CSN NewsBot]

Xfire, the popular program that lets you join up and talk to friends in game, has hit version 1.49 today.

• Added balloon tray tooltips which are displayed every time a friend logs on or logs off, and every time a file download starts or completes. They can be disabled in the Tools | Options menu in the General tab.
  
  
• Changed the logo to the new official Xfire logo. We hope you like it!
  
  
• Major improvements to the Tools | Manage Screenshots dialog. Hit Scroll Lock + S while playing a game to take a screenshot.
  
  
• Xfire skins downloaded through the file download system now have a link in the infoview to select the new skin.
  
  
• Removed all DNS lookups from the file download system. This should make Xfire file downloads work for certain users that could not perform the lookups.

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• Fixed an inconsistency in the Tools | Options | Games option to disable Xfire In-Game and the Tools | Options | Chat option to show chat messages in game.
  
  
• Improved use of the Tools | Options | Games tab for games with multiple possible .exe names.
  
  
• Fixed a problem with taking a screenshot while viewing a menu in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.
  
  
• Fixed numerous interface issues with group voice chat.
  
  
• Fixed a problem where the main window would not display properly for some Windows 9x users.
  
  
• Changed the IP address of our servers. For everyone who has to specifically open a hole in their firewall to run Xfire, open it to cs.xfire.com (now 204.71.190.24) port 25999, TCP.
  
  
• New games supported: Gun, The Movies, The Matrix - The Path of Neo, Contract JACK, BloodRayne, BloodRayne 2, Sourceforts, Need for Speed Most Wanted, John Deere North American Farmer, Zoo Tycoon 2 Endangered Species, Worms 4 Mayhem, Empire Earth II Art of Supremacy, Quake 4 Demo, Silkroad Online, and Flyff. We now support over 500 games.

The staff states that this will be the last release of 2005 for them, but stay tuned for more updates in the new year. Whoo!

[Pan the Goat God]

Now that I think about it, where IS that zombie movie they were going to release through steam? They said is was made by one of their own guys, and I bet he's pissed about that its nowhere to be found on steam.



The movie is done and they still delay releasing it through steam..

[Ava3ar]

i cant remember them saying it was gona be on steam, i thought it was just going to be shown on at a film festival

[masterren]

Ava3ar wrote..

i cant remember them saying it was gona be on steam, i thought it was just going to be shown on at a film festival

Official Site:

"November 4, 2005 - We won!



"Zombie Movie" coming soon through Steam, a broadband platform for delivering digital content directly to your desktop."

[-:Nighthawk:-]

Procrastination is a bad habit in school, but it's just plain bad business in the real world. Seeing as VALVe is made up of a bunch of gamers, though, it's almost unsurprising.



Who knows... maybe the guy who made it decided he didn't want to give his work away for free, maybe they can't remember how to use Bink, maybe the video-release portion of Steam got screwed up, or maybe they're paying for used bandwidth, rather than the connections themselves. More likely, however, is that they just haven't bothered.



Ah well, at least Xfire is improving, eh? The autoupdate works wonderfully, and the feature set is quite impressive for a free program.

[white_wolf111]

don't like the new icon though.....