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Main features

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Friend Tracker

  • See when your friends are online, what game they're playing, and what server they're on
  • Join in on their games with one click
  • See what the friends of your friends are playing
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One-Click Join

  • Once you're ready to join one of your friends in a game, simply select your friend's name and click the Join button. (Say goodbye to cutting & pasting server IP addresses!)
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Server Browser

  • Xfire's server browser is built right into the client so you don't need yet another app running while gaming. You can easily filter by game type, map name, ping, etc. Xfire also keeps track of your recent servers, your favorites, and your friends' favorites.
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Xfire In-Game (IM While You Play)

  • Unlike other IMs, you can send and receive messages from inside games without having to minimize (Alt+Tab) the game window. Your IMs appear right on screen: just hit Scroll Lock + X to respond. You can even take screenshots by pressing Scroll Lock + S and automatically upload them to your profile page.
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Voice Chat

  • Xfire's voice chat lets you talk 1:1 or in groups with your friends while you're in or out of game. Superior voice quality and custom bandwidth settings ensure your gaming will still go on lag-free.
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File & Patch Downloads

  • You can download the latest mods, patches, and trailers for your favorite games to your desktop over our flexible and convenient P2P file network. Subscribe to Xfire's download channels and get game patches and files automatically delivered as soon as they're out- no more waiting around to get a patch, just play.
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Profiles with Automatic Stats

  • Xfire shows off your gaming stats, such as the games you play and how many hours you've played them. They're on your profile and Miniprofile, which can be embedded anywhere on the web.
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Over 700 Games Supported

  • Xfire supports many popular online PC games, including server and non-server based First Person Shooters, Real Time Strategy, and Role Playing Games. If you play it, we probably have it. And we're constantly adding newly suggested games.
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Xfire client program

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System Requirements

  • PC running Windows 2000, or XP
  • 10 MB available hard drive space
  • Desktop resolution of 800 x 600 at 256 colors (1024 x 768 at 16 bit color or higher recommended)
  • Internet connection (broadband recommended)

Windows Vista™ or Internet Explorer 7 are both beta versions and using Xfire in systems with either of them installed is not supported. The program might work, but it is not guaranteed that all features work as intended on those systems.

There is no Linux or Macintosh version of Xfire available yet. It is being planned that once the Windows version is complete enough, there might be possiblities on creating Xfire for other platforms as well.

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Download link

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Program updates

Xfire is updated usually every three weeks. The update installer will be put to automatic download to Xfire's File Transfers system to Xfire updates channel a day or two before the actual server update to make the server load on update less intensive.

Once it is the time for update, every client is disconnected from Xfire server while the server software is being updated. When the server is updated all clients are required to be running the new version of Xfire. If the program already downloaded the update it will install it automatically in this point. If the update is not yet downloaded the program will download it directly from various Xfire seed servers.

Aside from the major program updates, Xfire releases also minor Game updates in the download channel. Those updates are not necessary but they contain detection information for games not previously supported by Xfire or for games that had non-working support code.

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Supported games

See the list of supported games on Xfire site: http://www.xfire.com/supported_games/

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Forums

Xfire forums

Xfire site has massive forums. When you have your Xfire account registered you can use the same account to log in to Xfire forums. You can find lots of information about Xfire events and get help on unknown problems.

The most important areas of Xfire forums:

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Help

To get help using Xfire there are good instructions already made on Xfire website:

  • FAQ with answers for almost any problem you might encounter
  • Xfire Product Tour for new members to interactively get to know Xfire better
  • Technical Support forum for questions that are not answered in the above two links
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Links

Retrieved from "http://wiki.xfire.com/wiki/index.php/Xfire"
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