This is an archive of new features, bug fixes, and games supported each release of Xfire. We've been doing releases every 2 to 3 weeks since we launched in January 2004.

• 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:

  Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway	Hinterland	Age of Chivalry	Zombie Panic! Source
  D.I.P.R.I.P. Warm Up	Shocking Void	HighStreet 5	FIFA Soccer 09
  World of Goo	Line Rider 2	The Guild 2 Venice	Nostradamus - The Last Prophecy
  NHL 09	Dead Space	Guitar Hero: Aerosmith	Baseball Mogul 2009
  Dark Horizon	S4 League	Miniconomy	Far Cry 2
  Spectraball	NBA 2K9	Bully: Scholarship Edition	X3: Terran Conflict
  Exodus From The Earth	Space Trader	Fallout 3	Call of Duty: World at War Beta Multiplayer
  Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3

It's hard to believe but this is the 100th release of Xfire. The entire Xfire team would like to thank all of our loyal users, whether you've been active for one release, ten releases, or close to all 100 releases. Enjoy!

• 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:

  Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI	Pure	Source SDK Base: Orange Box	Lego Batman
  Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner	Civilization IV: Colonization	Perfect World International	Multiwinia
  City Life 2008	King's Bounty: The Legend	1701 A.D.: The Sunken Dragon	The Suffering
  Russia's Army	Atlantica Online	Men of War Beta	Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn
  Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 Demo	Sacred 2 - Fallen Angel

Enjoy!

• 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.
• New games supported:

  The Sims 2 Apartment Life	Hunting Unlimited 2009	FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage	Battlefield Heroes Beta
  4Story	Legend: Hand of God	Pi Story	Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
  SPORE	Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon	Demigod Beta	Rome: Total War: Alexander
  Arca Sim Racing	Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus	Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee	FIFA 09 Demo
  S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky	Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning	Warhammer Online Beta	Crysis Warhead
  Crysis War

Enjoy!

• 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:

  Q-World	Majesty Gold Edition	Majesty Gold Edition: The Northern Expansion	I.G.I.: I'm Going In
  Transport Giant	Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Beta	The Settlers III	Beijing 2008
  Eschalon Book I	Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory	Project Powder Beta	Xiah Rebirth
  Asda Story	Dream Pinball 3D	Sho Online	Space Siege
  Space Siege	Shattered Suns	Harino	Pro Cycling Manager Season 2008
  QPang	FATE: Undiscovered Realms	Dracula: Origin

Enjoy!

• 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:

  Dark Colony	Enclave	Carmageddon TDR2000	Rayman Raving Rabbids
  Rigs of Rods	7 Wonders of the Ancient World	Eternal Lands	The Golden Horde
  Roogoo	Bomberman Online	Elements	The Wonderful End of the World
  Halo Trial	Space Chimps	7 Wonders II	Sacred Gold
  UniBall	Warrior Epic Closed Beta	World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Beta	Jutland Beta
  IGI-2: Covert Strike	CQC: Close Quarter Combat	Q-World

Technical notes are available for this release.

Enjoy!

• 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:

  Crazy Machines 2	Out of the Park Baseball 9	The Sims 2 IKEA Home Stuff	World of Kung Fu
  Making History: The Calm and The Storm	Freelanc3r	Genleo: The Land of Eratica	Seeds of Time Online
  Oil Imperium	Combat Arms	Cardmaster Conflict	Freedom Force
  Ultimate Pimpin'	Safari Photo Africa: Wild Earth	Supreme Ruler 2020	The Political Machine 2008
  CS-Manager	Devil May Cry 4	Immune Attack	Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now!
  Panzer Elite

Technical notes are available for this release.

Enjoy!

• 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:

  Spaceinvasion	ChaosCars	Gladiators II	Seafight
  DarkOrbit	Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures	GRID	Guilty Gear x2 Reload
  Nitro Stunt Race Stage 1	MTV's Virtual World	Kung Fu Panda	Aliens versus Predator Gold Edition
  Turok 2: Seeds of Evil	Wonderland Online	Devil May Cry 4 Trial	Blokus World Tour
  Star Sonata	Bullet Candy	Bus Driver	The Incredible Hulk
  Stronghold Crusader Extreme	Marble Blast Gold	UEFA Euro 2008	Little Farm
  SPORE Creature Creator	Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy	Zu Online	Angels Online
  Dreamlords: The Reawakening	Alien Shooter	WALL-E	Alone In The Dark

• 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:

  Commandos 3: Destination Berlin	Capitalism II	Tales of Pirates Online	Bet and Race
  Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines	Magic The Gathering: Battlegrounds	Everyday Shooter	Graal Online
  Heretic II	Conflict: Global Terror	Jack Keane	Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
  Cossacks: The Art Of War	Requiem: Bloodymare	Hello Kitty Online	On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One
  PseudoQuest	Mortimer Beckett and the Secrets of Spooky Manor	Silent Hunter II	Flanker 2.5
  The Continuum	Great War Nations: The Spartans	Shadowgrounds Survivor	Mass Effect
  Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition	G-Police	Heroes of Might and Magic III Complete	GRID Demo
  Icewind Dale II	Day of Defeat: Source Beta

Technical notes are available for this release.

• Added support for Polish language--discuss translation errors in this forum thread.
• 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.
• Added Xfire In-Game 2.0 with mouse support to:

  Boiling Point	Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay	Counter Organic Revolution (COR)	Europa Universalis III
  EverQuest II	Fortress Forever	Frag Ops	Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
  Kingpin Life of Crime	Last Chaos USA	Madden NFL 2005	Medal of Honor Pacific Assault
  NHL 2005	Ninja Reflex	Rising Eagle	SimCity 4
  Source SDK Base	Sourceforts	The Office	Tremulous
  Troopers: Dawn of Destiny	Warsow	World of Padman

• New games supported:

  Melty Blood: Act Cadenza	Seal Online USA	Magic Online III	Ultimate Doom
  Master Levels of Doom	Final Doom	Doom 2	Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2
  Turok	Clive Barker's Undying	Lumines	Europa Universalis: Rome
  Planescape: Torment	Dirty Dancing: The Video Game	Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures	The House of the Dead 3
  The House of the Dead 2	Iron Man	Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis	Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor
  Imperialism II	Star Wars: Battle for Naboo	Grand Prix 4	Tomb Raider II

• Magyar nyelv támogatása (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.
• New games supported:

  Rohan Online	Warriors Orochi	Alien Arena 2008	Ninja Reflex: Steamworks Edition
  Lunia	Uplink	Slayers Online	Second Sight
  Imperium Romanum	Yu-Gi-Oh! Online: Duel Evolution	Assassin's Creed	Terra: Battle for the Outlands
  Darkstar One	OpenTTD	NosTale	Jagged Alliance 2 Gold
  American McGee's Alice	Skulltag	Saga	Trackmania Nations Forever
  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2	The Sims 2 Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff	Kung Fu Panda Demo

Technical notes are available for this release.

• *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.
• New games supported:

  Pirates, Vikings and Knights II	Worms 2	Savage 2: A Tortured Soul	Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst
  Pirateville	Upshift StrikeRacer	Glest	WorldShift Beta
  Seven Kingdoms: Conquest	Powerboat GT	Chessmaster 10th Edition	Red Baron Arcade
  The Shield	Mind Quiz	Ricochet Infinity	Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
  Lost Empire: Immortals	Hard Truck 2	Lights Out	SWAT 3
  The Sims Carnival: BumperBlast	The Sims Carnival: SnapCity	Toribash	Osu!
  Pet Luv Spa and Resort Tycoon	Perfect Dark: Source	Trials 2 Second Edition Demo	Synergy

• 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.
• Added Xfire In-Game 2.0 support including the mouse to the following games:

Action Unreal Tournament 2004	Conflict: Denied Ops	Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna	Emperor: Battle for Dune
FIFA Manager 06	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	James Bond 007 Nightfire	Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
Quake 4 Demo	Sword of the Stars: Born of Blood	Urban Terror

• New games supported:

Impossible Creatures	Resident Evil 3: Nemesis	Theme Hospital	Flysis
RuneScape	Penumbra: Black Plague	Hello Kitty Cutie World	Beyond Good & Evil
The Club	Europa 1400: The Guild (Gold)	Red Stone	Frontlines: Fuel of War
Grand Chase (Asia)	Grand Chase	The Sims 2 FreeTime	Turning Point: Fall of Liberty
Lost: Via Domus	Phun	SpaceForce Captains	NASCAR Racing 2002 Season
Darkeden	The Experiment	FairyLand	Fritz 8
Bots	Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come	Cal Ripken's Real Baseball

Technical notes are available for this release.

• 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.
• Added Xfire In-Game 2.0 support including the mouse to the following games:

Call of Duty United Offensive Single Player Demo	Conflict: Denied Ops	Contract JACK	Darwinia
Darwinia Demo	Devastation	Digital Paint: Paintball 2	Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
Enemy Territories Quake Wars Demo	FIFA Soccer 06	Genesis Rising	Half Life: Blue Shift
Half-Life 2: Episode One	Harry Potter - Quidditch World Cup	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Instinct
Jedi Knight II Multiplayer	Jedi Knight II Single Player	Nexus - The Jupiter Incident	Operation Flashpoint
Operation Flashpoint Resistance	Opposing Force	Peter Jackson's King Kong	PlanetSide
Prey Demo	Pro Evolution Soccer 5	Quake II	Red Orchestra
Return to Castle Wolfenstein Multiplayer	Return to Castle Wolfenstein Single Player	Sauerbraten	Serious Sam
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter	Silent Hill 2	Sin	Sin Multiplayer
Sniper Elite	Soldiers - Heroes of World War II	Soldner - Secret Wars	Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II	Stubbs the Zombie	Total Overdose	Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006
UFO Aftershock	Unreal Tournament 2003	Voyage Century Online	Winning Eleven 9
Winning Eleven Pro Evolution Soccer 2007

• 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.

Technical notes are available for this release.

• Added the new Standard theme to the Shadow skin.
• Fixed many bugs in the *beta* video capture system, including support for Direct3D 7 games.
• Fixed a bug that could crash a game when using buggy skins and launching the game.
• Improved the icons for group voice chat.
• Fixed a problem that could cause balloon tooltips to flash for a long time when coming out of game (or standby mode).
• Temporarily disabled the World of Warcraft infoview because it could hang Xfire for a period of time; we plan to restore it next release.
• Added Xfire In-Game 2.0 support including the mouse to the following games:

18 Wheels of Steel Across America	18 Wheels of Steel Convoy	18 Wheels of Steel Haulin	18 Wheels of Steel Pedal to the Metal
Birth of America	Championship Manager 2007	City of Heroes	City of Heroes EU
City of Heroes Test Server	City of Villains	City of Villains EU	Condition Zero: Deleted Scenes
Cricket 07	Day of Defeat 1.3	Deathmatch Classic (Steam)	Defcon
Deus Ex	Digital Paintball	Dungeon Siege	Earth's Special Forces
FIFA 07	Firearms	Half-Life (Steam)	Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Half-Life 2: Substance	Live for Speed	Natural Selection	Pirates of the Caribbean
Prey	Pro Evolution Soccer 6	Quake 4	Ricochet (Steam)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl	SAS Into the Lion's Den	Scrapland	Shattered Union
Sven Co-op	Tactical Ops	Team Fortress Classic (Steam)	The Specialists
X-Men Legends 2

• New games supported: PKRCasino, Twelve Sky, Regnum Online, Beyond Divinity, Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, Kane and Lynch: Dead Men Demo, Hard To Be a God Demo, Indiana Jones and the Emperors Tomb, Grand Theft Auto, Peggle Deluxe, Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights, Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Battlestar Galactica, Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, Dawn of War: Soulstorm Demo, Teewars, Metal Gear Solid, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, Divine Divinity, Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel, Stranded II, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, Wild Metal Country, GGPO.net, and Jewel Quest.

• 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. Please read the FAQ.
• Added Xfire In-Game 2.0 support including the mouse to the following games:

Advent Rising	C&C Renegade	Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2006	Conquer Online
Deer Hunter 2004	Deer Hunter 2005	Delta Force Black Hawk Down	Diablo II
Diablo II Lord of Destruction	Fate	First Battalion	Freedom Fighters
Freelancer	Grand Theft Auto III	Hero Online	Heroes of the Pacific
Hidden & Dangerous 2	Hidden & Dangerous 2 Sabre Squadron	Hitman 2 - Silent Assassin	Kreedz Climbing
Land of the Dead	Let's Ride! - Silver Buckle Stables	LOTR Return of the King	Mafia
Mage Knight Apocalypse	Mall Tycoon 2	Manhunt	Marc Ecko's Getting Up - Contents Under Pressure
Metal Gear Solid2 Substance	Monopoly Tycoon	Morrowind	Mortyr 2
Rise of Nations	Rise of Nations - Thrones & Patriots	Rubies of Eventide	Silent Hill 3
Silent Hill 4	SimCities Societies	Sonic Heroes	Star Wars Republic Commando
Star Wars Starfighter	The Settlers: Rise of an Empire	The Settlers: Heritage of Kings	The Temple of Elemental Evil
Trackmania Nations	Vietcong	Vietcong Fist Alpha

• 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.

Technical notes are available for this release.

• 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.
• Added Xfire In-Game 2.0 support including the mouse to the following games:

America's Army: Special Forces	C&C Generals	C&C Generals - Zero Hour	Call of Duty Multiplayer
Call of Duty Single Player	Call of Duty United Offensive Multiplayer	Call of Duty United Offensive Single Player	Call of Duty United Offensive Single Player Demo
Counter-Strike 1.6	Counter-Strike: Condition Zero	Crysis SP Demo	Dungeon Siege II Demo
Dystopia v1	Grand Theft Auto San Andreas	Hospital Tycoon	Jedi Academy Multiplayer
Jedi Academy Single Player	MapleStory	Neverwinter Nights	Plan of Attack
Rag Doll Kung Fu	Rainbow Six Lockdown	Rainbow Six Lockdown Demo	RF Online
Richard Burns Rally	Second Life	Silkroad Online	Silverfall
Soldier Front	Sword of the New World	The Godfather	The Lord of the Rings Online
The Saga of Ryzom	The Ship	The Witcher	Tibia
Trickster Revolution	UberSoldier	Warcraft III	Warcraft III - The Frozen Throne
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

• 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.

Next release will be delayed until January 7, 2008 to accommodate the holidays.

• The latest news items in your Clans and Guilds (part of the *beta* Clans & Guild system) are now displayed in the infoview when you login or select a clan.
• Added the ability to create custom, public or private forums associated with your clan or guild (select Edit Forums on your clan or guild page).
• Added server info in the infoview for Call of Duty 4, including colorized names.
• Added the ability to create chat rooms and invite people to chat rooms from Xfire In-Game 2.0.
• Added Xfire In-Game support for Direct3D 10 games (Hellgate: London, Fury, and Crysis).
• Added Xfire In-Game 2.0 support including the mouse to the following games:

2 Moons	Axis and Allies	Codename: Panzers, Phase 1	Codename: Panzers, Phase 2
Dark Messiah Multiplayer	Dark Messiah Single Player	EverQuest II Beta	Far Cry
Gunz the Duel	Hitman: Blood Money	HL Deathmatch Source	HL2 CTF
HL2 Lost Coast	Medal of Honor: Airborne - Demo	Micro Machines V4	MotoGP URT 3
Mythos	Neocron	NHL07	Panzer Command
Prince of Persia: Two Thrones	Project Snowblind MP	Project Snowblind SP	Rogue Trooper
Rush for Berlin	Scarface	Scions of Fate	Shadow Grounds
Silent Hunter III	Silent Hunter Wolves of the Pacific	Sin Episodes: Emergence	Spiderman 3
Star Wars Battlefront	Supreme Commander	Swords of the Stars	Swords of the Stars Demo
The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth II Beta	The Saga of Ryzom	The Settlers II - 10th Anniversary	Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005	Titan Quest Demo	TMNT	TMNT Demo
Toca Race Driver 3	Tony Hawk's Underground 2	Tortuga - Two Treasures	Trackmania Sunrise
Tribes Vengeance	Tribes Vengeance Multiplayer Demo	Tycoon City - New York	Vampire - Masquerade Bloodlines
Vanguard - Saga of Heroes	World in Conflict - BETA	X3 - The Reunion	Xpand Rally

• New games supported: City Life Deluxe, Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar, CSPromod Beta, 8BallClub, Worldwide Soccer Manager 2008, Football Manager 2008, Clive Barker's Jericho, Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties, Dynasty Warriors 4 Hyper, Crysis SP Demo, Painkiller: Overdose, SunAge, Luminary: Rise of Goonzu, The Witcher, TimeShift, Happy Feet, NBA Live 08, Taito Legends, Perfect World, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, Empire Earth III, FEAR Perseus Mandate, Gears of War, Dawn of War Soulstorm, Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, Chessmaster Grandmaster Edition, and Crysis. This brings us to over 1000 games supported!

Please let us know if there are any issues in the technical support forums.

• 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.
• Added Xfire In-Game 2.0 support including the mouse to the following games:

Archlord	Armies of Exigo	Armies of Exigo Single Player Demo	Bioshock
Bioshock Demo	Brothers in Arms - EIB	Brothers in Arms - EIB Demo	Close Combat First to Fight
Counter Strike Source	Counter Strike Source (Beta)	Dance! Online	Day of Defeat Source
Europia Universia III	Fifa Soccer 2005	Flight Simulator 2004	Freedom Force vs. The 3rd Reich
Frontline - Fields of thunder	Galactic Civilization II	Game Tycoon	Garry's Mod
Glory of the roman empire	Goldeneye source	GT Legends	GTR (D3D8)
GTR 2	Gun	Half Life 2	Harry Potter OOTP
Immortal Cities - children of the nile	Imperial Glory	Indigo Prophecy	Infernal
Insurgency - Modern Infantry Combat	Jade Empire	Joint Operations - Escalation	Joint Operations - Typhoon Rising
Joint Task Force	Juiced	Just Cause	Kuma War
Kwon Ho	Legion Arena	Leisure Suite Larry	LMA Manager 2007
Madden 06	Madden 07	Men of Valor	MOH Airbourne
Moto GP2	MX vs. ATV Unleashed	MX vs. ATV Unleashed Demo	Myst V
NBA Live 06	NBA Live 07	NBA Live 2005	NCAA Championship Run
Need For Speed: Carbon Demo	Neverwinter Nights 2	Neverwinter Nights 2 AMD 64 Version	NLF Head Coach
Onimusha 3	Outrun 2006	Prince of Persia - Warrior Within	Prison Tycoon
Prison Tycoon 2	Psychonauts	R.O.S.E. Online	Serious Sam 2
Serious Sam 2 Demo	Sid Meier's Railroads	Spellforce - Order of dawn	Sprint Cars: Road to Knoxville
Stacked	Star Wars: Empire at War	Star Wars: Empire at War - Forces of corruption	Star Wars: Empire at War Demo
Stronghold 2	Swat 4	Swat 4 - stetchkov syndicate	The Guild 2
The Matrix - Path of Neo	The Matrix Online	The Movies	The Movies - Stunts and Effects
Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6: Vegas

• 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.

Please let us know if there are any issues in the technical support forums. Technical notes are available for this release.

• Note: All Xfire In-Game 2.0 features currently only work with the Xfire, Standard, and Shadow skins.
• Added the ability to send and receive one-to-one voice calls from Xfire In-Game 2.0 games.
• Added an Options button/tab on the main menu of Xfire In-Game 2.0 to control new features:
  • Added the ability to see a clock in Xfire In-Game 2.0 games.
  • Added the ability to see a frames-per-second counter in Xfire In-Game 2.0 games.
• Fixed several issues with specific key combinations in Xfire In-Game.
• Added Xfire In-Game 2.0 support including the mouse to the following games:

1701 A.D	Act Of War - Direct Action	Act Of War - High Treason	Ancient Wars - Sparta
Area 51	ARMA	Bad Day LA	Battlefield: Vietnam
Bet On Soldier	Black & White 2	Black & White 2: Battle Of The Gods	Blitzkrieg 2
Broken Sword - The Angel of Death	Broken Sword - The Sleeping Dragon	Brothers in Arms Road to Hill 30	Call Of Cthulhu
Call Of Juarez	Catz	Cellfactor Revolution	City Life
Cold Fear	Commandos Strikeforce	D.I.R.T	Dark Age Of Camelot - Catacombs
Dark Age Of Camelot - Darkness Rising	Dark Age Of Camelot - Labyrinth of the Minotaur	Dark Age Of Camelot - Trials of Atlantis	Devil May Cry 3
Dogz	Dreamfall	Driv3r	Dungeon Siege II
Dungeon Siege II Broken World	Earth 2160	Empire Earth II	Empire Earth II Art of Supremacy
Enter the Matrix	Eragon	Eutropia Universe	EverQuest II
Evil Genius	Faces of War	Fear Extraction Point	Fear
Halo	Marvel Ultimate Alliance	Need For Speed: Carbon	Need For Speed: Most Wanted
Need For Speed: Underground	Need For Speed: Underground 2	Overlord	Painkiller
Painkiller Battle Out of Hell	Splinter Cell Chaos Theory	Splinter Cell Double Agent Single Player	Tabula Rasa Beta
The Lord of the Rings - The Battle for Middle-Earth	The Lord of the Rings, The Rise of the Witch-king	The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth II	Tomb Raider Legend
Two Worlds

• New games supported: World in Conflict, Team Fortress 2, Peggle Extreme, Mayhem Intergalactic, Mayhem Intergalactic Demo, Crysis MP Beta, Frontlines: Fuel of War Beta, Drift City, John Woo Presents Stranglehold, NHL 08, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII, Big Mutha Truckers 2, Fortress Forever, The Settlers: Rise of an Empire, Babo Violent 2, and CodeNameD: BlueShift.

Please let us know if there are any issues in the technical support forums. Technical notes are available for this release.

• 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
• The following games were added

Medal of Honor: Airborne - Demo	World in Conflict - Demo	Civilization IV Gold Edition	Two Worlds - Demo	Two Worlds	Medieval II Total War: Kingdoms (Steam version included)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08	Desperate Housewives	Urban Terror Quake III Arena Mod	Medal of Honor: Airborne	Pet Vet 3D Animal Hospital	The Sims 2 Bon Voyage
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Demo

• The following games now have XIG 2.0

Unreal Tournament	Battlefield 1942	Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo	Unreal Tournament 2004	World of Warcraft	The Sims 2
Roller Coaster Tycoon 3	Sid Meier's Pirates!	Zoo Tycoon 2	Lego Starwars	Delta Force Xtreme	Battlefield 2
Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 Soaked	The Sims 2 Nightlife	Battlefront II	Call of Duty 2 Single Player Demo	Age of Empires III	Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 Wild
Zoo Tycoon 2: Endangered Species	Dungeons & Dragons Online - Stormreach	The Sims 2 Open for Business	Oblivion	Spellforce 2 - Shadow Wars	The Sims 2 Family Fun Stuff
Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure	The Suffering Ties that Bind	CivCity Rome	Company of Heroes Multiplayer Beta	Company of Heroes Single Player demo	Company of Heroes (Steam)
Caesar 4 Demo	Caesar 4	The Sims 2 Glamour Life Stuff	Battlefield 2142 Demo	Gothic III	Paraworld
Age of Empires III - The Warchiefs	The Sims 2 Pets	Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania	Stronghold Legends	Reservoir Dogs	Star Trek Legacy
Ijji Gunz	Titan Quest: Immortal Throne	The Sims Life Stories	Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars Demo	Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars	Resident Evil 4
Brian Lara Cricket	The Sims 2 Deluxe	Tomb Raider - Anniversary	The Sims 2 H&M Fashion Stuff	The Sims Pet Stories	Mount & Blade
Rappelz Epic4	Madden NFL 08	Shadowrun	World in Conflict DEMO	Attack on Pearl Harbor	Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
Call of Duty 2 Single Player	Call of Duty 2 Multiplayer	Titan Quest	Battlefield 2142 Demo	Battlestations Midway	The Sims 2 Seasons
The Sims 2 Celebration! Stuff

Please let us know if there are any issues in the technical support forums. Thanks for your support.

• There is a new Xfire skin called Shadow. Try it now! This is the skin that new users will get by default.
• The Xfire web site also has a new skin which goes along with the new Shadow skin.
• The new Xfire In-Game interface, using a mouse, has been added to the following games and their expansions:

  Doom 3	Frets on Fire	Quake 3	Civilization IV	Dungeon Runners	Eve Online
  Everquest	Half-Life: Source	Heroes of Might and Magic V	Lego Star Wars II	Medieval II Total War	Test Drive Unlimited
  Trackmania United	Virtua Tennis 3	Warhammer Mark of Chaos	Zoo Tycoon 2	rFactor	Crazy Taxi
  Ghost Recon	Grand Theft Auto - Vice City	Metin 2	Playboy - The Mansion

• 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.

This has been a very large release, so there will no doubt be a few rough edges. Please let us know about them in the forums. We all hope you enjoy the new Shadow skin; it took quite a bit of time to build and we're very happy with the results.

• 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.

Windows 98 users--you may need to follow these instructions to update properly. Maybe you'd like to upgrade to XP?

Technical notes are available for this release.

• Revamped Xfire to work better on Windows Vista (because of UAC). On Vista:
  • Most Xfire files are now placed in c:\programdata\xfire\.
  • 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.

• 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.

We had some problems with our screenshot file server over the weekend; all old screenshots will be back online within about 12 hours.

Technical notes are available for this release.

• Added the two most recent screenshots taken by your friends in the infoview.
• 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.

Starting with this release, we are launching a small beta-testing program to find and fix more bugs before Xfire is released. We have moved releases to mondays (or tuesdays in the case of holidays in the United States) to compensate for this.

• 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.

Technical Notes are available.

We are working on collecting game statistics for Call of Duty United Offensive. If you would like to help beta test, please follow these instructions.

• 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 page to 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.

Technical Notes are available.

Release 1.73 was for internal use only and not activated (ok ok, to be honest, it had a bad bug).

• Added kill/death statistics to Medal of Honor Allied Assault (plain and Spearhead).
• Improved Tools | Options | Games to let you set a game as automatically detected, never detected, or to manually set the directory of the game.
• Chat rooms with voice chat now select the best voice host automatically by default. You may still choose to manually specify the host if you prefer.
• Added a new default infoview when you login that shows you helpful links and your installed games.
• The Friends of Friends category now includes friends of clan/guild members and clan/guild members of friends, unless you disable friends of friends in Tools | Options | Privacy.
• Fixed several serious bugs in Xfire In-Game that caused mouse problems or worse.
• Reenabled Xfire In-Game for Medal of Honor Allied Assault, Neocron 2, Second Life, and Delta Force Black Hawk Down.
• Added the ability for users behind some uncommon symmetric NATs (Xfire type 2) to send files and perform voice calls with other users.
• Added a cancel button to the Tools | Add Friend | Search Xfire Users dialog.
• Fixed support for Rose Online.
• Fixed a display issue in Xfire In-Game when a friend's nickname was maximum length.
• Added the ability to set your status message from the tray icon context menu.
• New games supported: Jade Empire, The Sims 2 Seasons, Space Rangers 2, Railroad Tycoon II, Railroad Tycoon II Platinum, Sonic Riders, Sonic Heroes, and the recently released version of Dystopia.

Technical Notes are available.

We are working on collecting game statistics for Call of Duty. If you would like to help beta test, please follow these instructions.

• Added kill/death statistics to Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - Breakthrough.
• 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.

Release 1.70 had a serious crash flaw and was replaced by 1.71.

Technical Notes are available.

• Vastly increased speed of taking screenshots (Scroll Lock + S while playing a game).
• Added a sound when you take a screenshot in game.
• Added the capability for us to send system messages to users. We plan to use this to warn everyone about system restarts and updates.
• Added kill/death statistics to Quake 4; they are automatically added to your profile page.
• Increased the maximum number of favorite servers you can save to 100.
• Changed the tray icon and tooltip to indicate when you are not connected to Xfire.
• Fixed display problem in the Tools | Manage Screenshots dialog when you take screenshots while playing a game in a window.
• Improved the user interface while downloading Xfire updates (you will see this when version 1.70 is released).
• Added the ability to associate favorite games with your clan or guild (*beta*).
• Fixed game detection of Silkroad Online and Lineage II.
• New games supported: Titan Quest Immortal Throne, Supreme Commander Beta, Goonzu Online, 25 to Life, Battlestations Midway, Bad Day LA, Let's Ride! - Silver Buckle Stables, and James Bond 007 Nightfire.

Technical Notes are available.

• Integrated the login process into the main Xfire window.
• Added kill/death tracking for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.
• Pending clan and guild invitations in the *beta* Clans and Guilds system are now displayed when you login to the Xfire application.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a chat window to not stay scrolled to the bottom.
• Reduced the start up and exit time of Xfire.
• Fixed detection of R.O.S.E. Online Evolution and WarRock.
• Added the ability to edit your birthday on the Edit Profile page (certain old accounts never had a birthday and display age 15; you can now fix this).
• Fixed an alignment issue with docking the Xfire window to the edge of the monitor (it used to be 3 pixels beyond the screen).
• Worked around problem with some routers that caused user to user file transfers to hang.
• New games supported: ijji GunZ (North America), Vanguard - Saga of Heroes Beta, CABAL Online (Europe), Trickster Online, Pirates of the Caribbean, Dark Age of Camelot - Labyrinth of the Minotaur, Battlefield 1942 Multiplayer Demo, Battlefield 1942 Singleplayer Demo, and Battlefield 1942 Secret Weapons of WWII Demo.

• Fixed some Xfire In-Game problems with Call of Duty 2.
• Fixed detection issues with R.O.S.E. Online Evolution.
• Fixed support for Sin Multiplayer.
• Changed the font used in the infoviews to fix problems with non-ASCII characters with IE7 installed.
• Fixed some additional issues found when extremely low on disk space.
• Fixed several problems with group voice chats when they become full.
• Added typing notification between all users (it used to only be shown for users able to establish direct connections to each other).
• Fixed an issue that caused Windows to cause an error with Xfire.exe when you open a CD-ROM drive.
• Fixed Xfire In-Game resizing problem with DirectX 7 games.
• Fixed updates when running Xfire off of a U3-enabled memory stick.
• Fixed some rare crashes.
• New games supported: Digital Paint: Paintball 2, The Lord of the Rings, The Rise of the Witch-king, Rappelz, Star Trek Legacy, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas.

Technical Notes are available.

We are working on collecting game statistics for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. If you would like to help beta test, please follow these instructions.

Due to the holidays, the next release will be delayed one week until January 18th. Happy Holidays!

• Added some basic protection against receiving too many messages (IM spam).
• Added Xfire In-Game support to all of the 18 Wheels of Steel games we support and Sim City 4.
• Fixed a priority issue causing voice chat to be corrupted in CPU-intensive games.
• Fixed a problem causing wasted CPU time after logging off/on without exiting Xfire.
• Fixed a problem on Windows 98 that caused skin drawing corruption.
• Improved the display of game statistics for Quake 3 and Jedi Academy on profile pages.
• Changed instant messages to go directly between the two Xfire applications (instead of through the servers) when possible.
• Fixed the voice chat button on certain older skins (including Combat, Dodge Caliber, Grandma's Boy, and Stream Engine).
• Fixed problem with blocked users not always being blocked from all communication with you.
• Worked around bad applications that install old versions of PSAPI.DLL in incorrect directories; the bad applications would cause Xfire to crash if you have IE 7 installed.
• Improved application behavior when there is no available disk space.
• Added support for EA Downloader versions of many games.
• New games supported: Neverwinter Nights 2, Need for Speed Carbon, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Need for Speed Carbon Demo, Pro Evolution Soccer 6, Football Manager 2007, Championship Manager 2007, Splinter Cell Double Agent Single Player, Splinter Cell Double Agent Multiplayer, SkillGround.com, 1701 A.D, Medieval II Total War, Panzer Command, Warhammer Mark of Chaos, Heroes of Might and Magic V - Hammers of Fate, Falcon 4.0 Allied Force, The Settlers II - 10th Anniversary, and Reservoir Dogs.

Technical Notes are available.

We are working on collecting game statistics for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. If you would like to help beta test, please follow these instructions.

• Added the ability for Xfire to automatically (and safely) reconnect while you are playing a game.
• Added lime green and monochrome themes to the default Xfire skin.
• Added friend joining to Battlefield 2142.
• Added proper team names for Battlefield 2142.
• Fixed voice chats to work well for listeners who don't have microphones.
• Fixed creation of chat windows on Vista to not always be in the top left of the screen.
• Made significant enhancements to the game statistics pages for Quake 3 and Jedi Academy.
• Fixed several confusing cosmetic issues with the Tools | Options | Games configuration dialog.
• Fixed Xfire In-Game user list duplication when using alt-tab to switch away from a game.
• Changed chat windows to lock in a scrolled-back position when new text arrives if you scroll up.
• More improvements to the *beta* Clans & Guilds system: added a clan/guild activity log and made lots of bug fixes.
• Fixed several web site and Xfire application problems when viewed with Internet Explorer 7.
• Deleting your nickname while online will now instantly update your miniprofile.
• Fixed support for Magic Online, Everquest, Rose Online, WarRock, Hero Online, Sprint Cars, and Lineage II.
• New games supported: Gothic III, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07, El Matador, Paraworld, Frets on Fire, Defcon, Championship Manager 2006, Age of Empires III - The WarChiefs, Microsoft Flight Simulator X, BZFlag, The Sims 2 Pets, Sid Meier's Railroads, The Guild 2, Neocron 2, Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition, Space Empires IV Deluxe, Space Empires V, Shot Online, Star Wars Empire at War Forces of Corruption, Phantasy Star Universe Online, Dark Messiah Multiplayer, Dark Messiah Single Player, FEAR Extraction Point, Stronghold Legends, Perimeter, and Perimeter Emperor's Testament.

Technical Notes are available.

Later today (November 2) we will be putting up an automatic game update to support Neverwinter Nights 2, Need for Speed Carbon (and the demo), and Marvel Ultimate Alliance. These games came out too late for our regular release process but we know you need support!

• Added proper coloring of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory names (thanks to James Abbatiello).
• Many improvements to the *beta* Clans & Guilds system: added more ranks, URL field, privacy settings, the ability to block clan members, and made lots of bug fixes.
• Added encryption of saved game passwords in the XfireUser.ini file.
• Fixed file transfers of files larger than 2 gigabytes.
• Fixed several crashes using xfire: URLs.
• Fixed Xfire update permission problems on 32-bit Vista.
• Fixed some graphical glitches when changing skins.
• Fixed several display issues in the infoview using IE7.
• Fixed several HTML-escaping issues with infoviews.
• Added per-game information to the MAME infoview (thanks to www.arcade-history.com).
• Reduced file access on startup for users with slow anti-virus scanners.
• New games supported: Faces of War, Patriots: A Nation Under Fire, Caesar 4 Demo, Caesar 4, Dark Messiah Multiplayer Open Beta, FEAR Extraction Point SP Demo, Mage Knight Apocalypse, NBA Live 07, NHL07, FIFA 07, Just Cause, The Sims 2 Glamour Life Stuff, Disciples 2 - Gallean's Return, Disciples 2 - Rise of the Elves, Joint Task Force, Battlefield 2142 Demo, GTR 2, Scarface, Archlord, and Medieval II Total War Demo SE.

One additional note--if you like real-time strategy games, we highly recommend you try out Dawn of War Dark Crusade. They use the Xfire SDK to show the map you're on to your friends (or if you're just sandbagging hours in the main menu!).

• Improved skin loading to be much, much faster.
• Changed the default Xfire skin to be in XML format.
• Updated the German version of the web site (thanks to fanta for his help).
• Fixed server information for Quake 4.
• Launching Battlefield 2 will now skip the intro movies.
• Fixed several infoview drawing problems when using Internet Explorer 7 RC1.
• Improved the look of the infoview to show more data.
• Fixed a problem when closing chat windows after getting disconnected (thanks to godjonez).
• Fixed a problem when removing a friend when you have a chat window open to him.
• Added a *Beta* Clan & Guild system. Each clan and guild has its own page on the Xfire site. This will allow you to more easily track large groups of gamers because your clans and guilds show up in your friends list!
• New games supported: Company of Heroes, Company of Heroes Single Player Demo, Dawn of War Dark Crusade Demo, Lego Star Wars II, Mall Tycoon, Mall Tycoon 2, Mall Tycoon 3, School Tycoon, Airport Tycoon, Prison Tycoon 2, and First Battalion.

Technical Notes are available.

• Nickname changes are now shown to your friends immediately (some of you have waited two years for this feature, so enjoy it!).
• Dial-up users are now opted out of patch downloads by default (go to Tools | Options | Files to change).
• Fixed saving of XfireUser.ini to not save possibly dozens of times on startup and exit; this should make startup and exit much faster, and reduces the likelihood of data corruption.
• xfire: urls in chat windows now function as links.
• Added country flags to profile web pages.
• Fixed Logitech G15 Keyboard support to allow the Logitech LCD Control Panel to permanently disable Xfire support.
• Fixed the problem that caused people with buggy DSL/cable modems to lose internet connectivity when they had lots of favorite or recent Battlefield 2 servers (or friends playing BF2).
• Fixed new chat windows to users you have not chatted with before to not always be set to the top left of the screen.
• While in a voice call, you can now choose to accept or deny an incoming call.
• Fixed balloon tooltips to not try to display when playing a game (Windows XP would instead show a long string of them upon exiting the game); also fixed a Windows 2000 issue.
• Fixed a problem that could cause moved chat windows' locations not to be saved.
• Fixed a graphics problem when changing skins with very similar code.
• Fixed an Xfire In-Game display problem when accidentally running one game while already playing Guild Wars.
• New games supported: Company of Heroes Multiplayer Beta, FEAR Multiplayer, Battlefield 2142, Monopoly Tycoon, and Madden 2007.

Technical Notes are available.

• Added a LAN Game Server browser on the servers tab. This will show you all game servers on your LAN for games you have installed.* The following games are supported:

  Counter-Strike 1.6	Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory	Battlefield 1942	Halo	Quake III Arena	Quake II
  Call of Duty	Soldier of Fortune II	Jedi Academy	Jedi Knight II	Natural Selection	Day of Defeat 1.6
  Deathmatch Classic 1.6	Half-Life 1.6	Opposing Force 1.6	Ricochet 1.6	Team Fortress Classic 1.6	Unreal Tournament 2004
  Battlefield Vietnam	Condition Zero	The Specialists	Sven Co-op	Call of Duty United Offensive	Counter-Strike Source
  Battlefield 2	Quake 4	Call of Duty 2

• 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).
• Xfire updates are now sent over the p2p file distribution system in the files tab at the default download rates if you have disabled other downloads. Uploads remain capped to your configured rate.
• 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.

Technical Notes are available. Version 1.61 was released to fix a bug that could cause a chat window to take the focus away from a game and to fix a security problem related to properly displaying nicknames and status messages in the infoview.

* Thanks to [20ID]mailman for the LAN server idea, and congratulations to 20ID on winning the Championship Gaming Invitational!

• The Servers tab filters sport a new look along with a new capability to filter any key for any server. This can be used to find servers of a specific version of a game, for example.
• Tweaked the shutdown sequence to hopefully prevent problems with writing out the Xfire.ini file.
• Reintroduced Xfire In-Game for City of Heroes and City of Villains.
• Improved our system to block IP addresses from people trying to steal Xfire passwords.
• Fixed possible graphic issues with Xfire In-Game with many OpenGL-based games.
• Fixed a drawing problem with chat windows in Windows Vista.
• Fixed a problem when trying to transfer a 0-byte file.
• Fixed a problem downloading files for users behind bizarre routers that rewrite certain bytes of any UDP traffic they transfer.
• Improved the Tools | Options | Games tab behavior when setting the directory for Steam games.
• Fixed the Tools | Options | Games tab to work with Sony Station games.
• Fixed a crash when using the Xfire In-Game group chat list.
• Fixed a problem with Asian characters in xfire text status URLs.
• New games supported: Sprint Cars: Road to Knoxville, Hitman - Codename 47, The Suffering Ties That Bind, Rise & Fall, City Life, Rogue Trooper, Prey, NFL Head Coach, Act of War - High Treason, The Ship, X-Wing Alliance, and Hero Online.

Technical Notes are available.

• 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.

Windows 98 is a very old operating system which is difficult to support. Microsoft is discontinuing its support for Windows 98 soon. We are considering discontinuing our support of Windows 98 by the end of this year. If you have a useful opinion about this, please let us know on the forums.

Technical Notes are available.

• 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.

Technical Notes are available.

• Added real gaming statistics (e.g. kill/death ratios) for Quake 3. Available on profile pages starting on May 18, 2006, with more to come.
• Added the ability to change your downloads directory under Tools | Options | Files.
• Added remote screenshots to the files tab. They update automatically when you edit your screenshots via the Xfire application or on the website.
• Added a menu option in the Windows Explorer Send To menu to send files through Xfire.
• Added the zone to the infoview for City of Heroes and City of Villains.
• Added the ability for friends of friends to see your "game client data" (realm for World of Warcraft, etc.).
• Removed the very confusing Find Installed Software dialog. Use the Tools | Options | Games dialog to configure your nonstandard game installations.
• Improved the interface and fixed numerous small bugs with sending files to friends.
• Fixed numerous small bugs with Universal Plug and Play support.
• Fixed some data duplication issues with the Battlefield 2 infoview.
• Added an SDK for game developers to use to display extra data about a game within Xfire.
• New games supported: Titan Quest Demo, Condemned - Crimminal Origins, 2006 FIFA World Cup, Dangerous Waters, Dune 2000, Emperor - Battle for Dune, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter Demo, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Winning Eleven 9, Call of Cthulhu DCoTE, The Settlers IV, Hearts of Iron II Doomsday, UberSoldier, Dungeon Keeper 2, Tycoon City - New York, Crashday, Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, Rise of Legends, and Sin Episodes - Emergence.

Technical Notes are available.

Note: we delayed this release by a week so as to avoid E3.

• Added a new system of additional game data. When looking at a friend's infoview:
  • World of Warcraft now displays the friend's realm.
  • Battlefield 2 now displays the friend's bf2 name, and lets you look up his official rank and statistics.
  • More game data will be added in future releases; we encourage modders to make plugins for more games.
• Added support for Universal Plug and Play (UPnP). If you have a NAT/firewall device that blocks some UDP traffic, Xfire will try to configure it using UPnP to enable voice chats and personal file transfers to any of your friends.
• Fixed a bizarre problem when clicking on certain ads in Xfire with Firefox as your default browser (previously, certain ads would open up multiple seemingly unrelated tabs).
• Fixed a major display glitch when running Xfire on pre-release versions of Windows Vista with the aero glass interface.
• Fixed several input and display bugs with group chats in Xfire In-Game.
• New games supported: Galactic Civilizations, Galactic Civilizations - The Altarian Prophecy, Galactic Civilizations II, 18 Wheels of Steel Across America, Sin (Steam), SpellForce2 - Shadow Wars, Commandos Strikeforce, Tomb Raider - Legend, The Sims 2 Family Fun Stuff, Sword of the Stars, True Crime - New York City, Shattered Galaxy, WWII Online, Blazing Angels, and Heroes of Might and Magic V Demo.

Technical Notes are available.

• 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.
• 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.

Technical Notes are available.

• Clicking on the advertisement will now open the ad in your default browser (it used to always use Internet Explorer).
• Fixed the error message displayed when opening a chat window between two people with incompatible NAT devices for our P2P system.
• Added a button in the Battlefield 2 infoview to display the rank of each person on the server.
• Revamped the Files pages on the web site to have the same look as the front page and profile page.
• Fixed a few focus issues with the Tools | Manage Screenshots dialog.
• Fixed several UI problems with Chat Windows' Actions | Invite More People dialog.
• Improved the NAT type information at the bottom of the Files Tab Help infoview.
• New games supported: Rainbow Six Lockdown, Marc Ecko's Getting Up - Contents Under Pressure, GT Legends, Trackmania Nations, C&C Red Alert, Command & Conquer, all of the games from C&C: The First Decade, SpaceCowboy, Battle for Middle-earth II, Toca Race Driver 3, and RF Online.

There were major changes underneath the hood to reduce the number of bugs and crashes in the future. We were able to get these changes done and tested quickly, so this release is out a few days early.

Also, for skinners and modders--each release will now have Technical Notes describing changes that may affect you.

• Significant improvements to direct file transfers. The infoview shows uploads and downloads separately, completed downloads have a link to open them, and resuming an aborted transfer now works seamlessly.
• Voice call enhancements: added different send and receive ringing sounds, added connect and disconnect sounds, and removed the dialog to accept a call.
• Changed custom friend groups to save them in the database. If you use Xfire from multiple computers you should see your friend groups in the same order from every computer.
• Organized and cleaned up the chat window Actions menu and the friends tab context menu.
• Updated the games page to show games with lobby support in group chats.
• Added logging for group chats if you have enabled chat logging in Tools | Options | Chat.
• Significant improvements to game lobbies in group chat. Age of Empires 2 and Jedi Knight launching should now work well.
• Better feedback on the servers tab when you select a game with no servers.
• Much more reliable and accurate error messages when you attempt to send a file to or voice chat with a friend and you have incompatible firewalls.
• Fixed a bug which set the focus to Xfire for xfire:status URLs (used in music player plugins).
• Fixed a bug that could display a balloon tooltip for a friend logging off even if you had not seen the friend logon.
• Fixed a few misspellings and rare crashes.
• New games supported: FSW Ten Hammers, MX vs ATV Unleashed, Devastation, Heroes of Might and Magic IV, and more Windows games.

Enjoy!

• Added the ability to send a file directly to your friend using the Actions | Send File menu item on chat windows, if you have compatible firewalls. There is no file size limit. We will continue to enhance this feature in future updates.
• Revamped the user interface for voice chat to make it easier to use.
• Added the ability to create and launch a game lobby from a group chat for the following games:
  • Age of Empires II
  • Jedi Knight
  • Heroes of Might and Magic III
  • Heroes of Might and Magic III Armageddon's Blade
  • Midtown Madness
  • Midtown Madness 2
  • Monster Truck Madness 2
  • Motocross Madness 2
• Increased the rate of our "ping" message to prevent people with aggressive firewall timeouts from getting disconnected.
• Added the option to play a sound when someone enters or leaves a group chat.
• Added the ability to add a game server to favorites using an xfire: URL.
• Fixed Xfire In-Game problem that truncated your friend list (in game) if you had more than 90 friends online.
• Fixed chat log bug that truncated your friend's message if it was longer than 256 characters.
• Fixed a serious texture leak problem with Xfire In-Game continuous mode in OpenGL games.
• Fixed chat color bug with Xfire In-Game.
• Fixed detection of WarRock.
• Fixed a problem preventing old Xfire updates from being automatically deleted.
• Fixed game detection for Rose Online.
• New games supported: Star Wars Empire at War Demo, Star Wars Empire at War, Metal Gear Solid2 Substance, KumaWar, Heroes of Might and Magic III, Heroes of Might and Magic III Armageddon's Blade, Rakion Chaos Force, Midtown Madness, Midtown Madness 2, Monster Truck Madness 2, Motocross Madness 2, Rainbow Six Lockdown Demo, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Battle for Middle-earth II Beta, Heroes of Might and Magic V Beta, and MX vs ATV Unleashed Demo.

Due to some extra efforts to fix bugs, this release is about 24 hours later than normal. Thanks for your patience. Enjoy!

This is an exciting time, not only because this our 50th release, but also because next week will mark two years since Xfire's public launch. Thank you for supporting us all this time, whether you're an old timer or if you just signed up last week. We work very hard to improve Xfire for you, and your feedback has been awesome. An important part of Xfire is building friendships, and so as a birthday present we have increased the friend limit to 500!

• Added the ability to invite more people in a chat window; one-to-one chats are automatically converted to group chats when you do this.
• Fixed Friends' Favorites in the Servers tab; they now work well.
• Your current upload/download rates are now displayed in the tray tooltip.
• Added a "message of the day" to group chats.
• Added the ability to set the default user permissions in a group chat.
• Added the ability to create a game lobby for Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic in a group chat.
• Updated language translations for all 12 languages.
• Fixed an ephemeral issue with changing nicknames.
• Revamped the files tab internals for future projects.
• Added a white background to the icon so that it looks good on any type of background.
• Changed the icon for the main window to differentiate it from chat windows when you Alt-Tab.
• Improved behavior of silent installations to include a desktop shortcut.
• Changed installer to prevent installations in special Windows directories.
• Numerous other small bug fixes.
• New games supported: Silent Hill 2, Prince of Persia The Two Thrones, WarRock, X3 - The Reunion, Stubbs the Zombie, Pro Evolution Soccer 5, Football Manager 2006, Star Trek Bridge Commander, Advent Rising, UFO Aftershock, NavyField, Rubies of Evantide, and FIFA Manager 06.

Now that the holidays are over, we will resume our standard 3 week release cycle. Enjoy!

• 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.
• 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.

This is planned to be the last release of 2005. Thanks to all of your support, this has been a pretty wonderful year for Xfire. Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, and we'll have a new release for you very early in 2006!

• Added ability to take screenshots using Xfire In-Game.
  • Press Scroll Lock + S one or more times while in a game to take screenshots.
  • When you exit the game, you will be asked to enter descriptions for the screenshots and whether you want to upload them to our servers.
  • You may take as many screenshots as can fit on your hard drive and access them from the files tab.
  • The most recent 15MB of screenshots that you upload to our servers will be available on your profile page.
• Added support for using UDP port 25777 for the Xfire voice chat system. If you are blocked from using Xfire voice chat with a friend, read this FAQ item for more information.
• Capped simultaneous file downloads via the files tab to 2 files. All other files will be queued to download. This increases your file download throughput.
• Added support for custom command line parameters to games. Go to Tools | Options | Games to configure them.
• Added Xfire In-Game support for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.
• Added a nice player list for Quake 4 and Star Wars Battlefront 2 servers, including scores.
• Added more server filters for America's Army and Battlefield 2.
• Added rcon support for Call of Duty 2 and Quake 4.
• Fixed several memory leaks in voice chat.
• Fixed several crash bugs.
• Fixed support for some versions of Condition Zero.
• Fixed support for Garry's Mod.
• Added Xfire In-Game support for Mojo Master.
• New games supported: Age of Empires III, Richard Burns Rally, Indigo Prophecy, Fahrenheit, Vietcong 2, Call of Duty 2, Civilization IV, LOTR Return of the King, City of Villains, Heroes of the Pacific, Shattered Union, Shattered Union, X2 - The Threat, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Wild, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast.

Enjoy!

• Added ability to save chat logs to a file. To enable, go to Tools | Options | Chat and select Enable Chat Logging. To view a log, open a chat window and select Actions | View chat log.
• Added rcon support to Quake 2, Quake 3, Call of Duty (and United Offensive), Soldier of Fortune original and 2, Jedi Academy, Jedi Knight 2, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Select a server and then enter your rcon password in the Rcon field at the bottom of the infoview to enable.
• Added Battlefield 2 game name/password prompting so you can join friends in game again (BF2 1.03 broke joining)..
• Added support for color codes in server names and player names for Quakeworld, Far Cry, and Soldier of Fortune.
• Added custom infoview and server filter for Counter-strike 1.6. Added a custom server filter for Call of Duty.
• Added support for group voice chat. Create a group chat and select "Host Voice chat" to try it out.
• Added ability to change voice options (Tools | Options | Voice) while in a one-to-one or group voice chat.
• Added Xfire In-Game support to MOHPA and DAoC.
• Fixed about a dozen 32x32 icons that had incorrect palettes.
• New games supported: FEAR Multiplayer Demo, Rome - Barbarian Invasion, Dragonshard, Brothers in Arms EIB, Serious Sam 2, Black & White 2, FIFA Soccer 06, NBA Live 06, Rag Doll Kung Fu, FEAR, MotoGP URT 3, Ultimate Spider-Man, X-Men Legends 2, Blitzkrieg 2, 18 Wheels of Steel Convoy ("Yeah breaker one nine this here's the Rubber Duck", I love that song!), Gangland, Risk II, Bet on Soldier, Descent FreeSpace, Prison Tycoon, and Quake 4.

Enjoy!

• Added significant improvements to the servers tab, including larger server lists, sorting by country, better filters, and we've added stats to show your progress while pinging a long list of game servers.
• Added the ability to download all new patches in the Xfire file distribution system for your games. If you enable this in Tools | Options | Files, then every patch we add to the file distribution system that applies to a game you have installed will automatically be downloaded.
• Added support for hyperlinks in text status messages to be actual links in the infoview.
• Added support for pressing Ctrl-V in Xfire In-Game to paste text from the clipboard.
• Added xfire: URLs for joining a game server and setting your text status. Detailed info available on the Xfire URLs page.
• Added menus to IM windows which allow you to block a friend-of-friend directly from the IM window.
• Fixed several coloring, menu selection, and key press bugs with Xfire In-Game.
• Fixed scrolling of the infoview when it's updated. It will now stay where you put it even after it's updated, such as when downloading a file.
• Fixed a problem with the group chat invite dialog which was dropping some group chat invitations.
• Added server info for Star Wars: Republic Commando.
• New games supported: C&C Tiberian Sun Firestorm, Age of Empires III Trial, Dystopia, Toontown Online, Serious Sam 2 Demo, Fallout, Fallout 2, Superpower 2, Enter the Matrix, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Railroad Tycoon 3, Panzers - Phase 2, Blitzkrieg, NHL 06, MVP Baseball 2005, Fable - The Lost Chapters, Dawn of War Winter Assault, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06, The Sims 2 Nightlife, Day of Defeat Source, Sacred Underworld, Star Wars Battlefront II, Call of Duty 2 Single Player Demo, and Brothers in Arms EIB Demo.

Enjoy!

• Added the one feature that everyone keeps telling us we need... blocking. You can block individual user names, and they will no longer be able to message you, send you friend invitations, or show up under friends-of-friends. You can NOT block friends (if someone is your friend, why would you want to block them?).
• Added ability to set a text status and a game status at the same time.
• Added estimated time remaining for file downloads.
• Added server name colors for SWAT 4 (bold and underline too!), America's Army, UT2k3, and UT2k4 in the infoview.
• Added custom filters for CS:S on the servers tab. It's still a bit slow; we're working on improving this more.
• Increased the maximum number of sources you can use during file downloads.
• Improved paste support into the Add Custom Game Server to Favorites dialog.
• Xfire In-game marks group chat messages with a double arrow to distinguish them from instant messages.
• Added sensitivity setting of voice activation for voice chat (go to Tools | Options | Voice to set it).
• Added a search field on the top of the infoview for the files tab.
• Improved error messages when initializing Xfire In-Game fails..
• Fixed several uncommon crashes.
• Added Xfire digital signature to Xfire.exe and all of our .dll files for additional security.
• Added support to play sounds specified in skins in .zip files.
• New games supported: Madden 2006, The Bard's Tale, Half-Life Source Blue Shift, Legion Arena, NTE, Grim Fandango, 1602 A.D., and Conquer Online.

Enjoy!

• New infoview game skin for Counter-Strike: Source.
• Improved file searching on the files page.
• The client ad should no longer refresh while you're in a full screen game.
• You can now drag and drop your friend groups in the interface to organize them however you wish.
• Added player name coloring in the infoview for Quake 3-based games.
• Fixed a spurious "voice chat disconnected" message when you weren't even in a voice chat.
• You will no longer be set auto-AFK if you're active in a voice chat.
• Major cleanup of the Servers tab code... it should run a bit faster now.
• Fixed CS:S server info player name and server name parsing to correctly show non-ASCII characters.
• Fixed the clicking sound when drawing the infoview on some machines.
• Several quality enhancements for (beta) one-to-one voice chat, including multiple quality settings (in Tools | Options | Voice).
• Added support for Counter-Strike 1.6 server info for old servers as well as new VAC2-enabled servers.
• New games supported: Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome, Sudden Strike II, Scrapland, Mortyr 2, Homeworld Cataclysm, Fate, Dungeon Siege II, Blue Shift, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Soaked, Control Monger, and FEAR SP Demo.

Enjoy!

• Added a new *BETA* voice chat feature, for one to one voice conversations. Please test it out, and read the FAQ if you have problems.
• New Continuous mode in Xfire In-Game shows you all messages you receive on screen at all times. Enable it inside games by pressing scroll lock + x, then F2 for the main menu, then select In-Game Options and then Enable Continuous Mode.
• Group Chats are now accessible in Xfire In-Game.
• You can drag and drop friends into custom groups to more easily organize them.
• Major enhancements to the interface in the files tab.
• You can put links to add an Xfire friend on web sites. The format is xfire:add_friend?user=yyy . Change yyy to your username, all lower case, of course!
• We now save the size of the infoview in the main window and chat windows, so if you don't like the extra wide infoview you can shrink it.
• Adjusted the infoview game skins to waste less space, and added an infoview game skin for CoD: UO..
• Added support for the arrow keys in the infoview.
• Fixed extra character when chatting in Xfire In-Game.
• The Xfire window will now "dock" with any border of the screen, and stay that way if you close and reopen the window. This feature has been broken since May 2004, but has been restored due to the constant nagging of TFS|Offy :).
• Added Xfire In-Game support to
  • Direct3D 9 games
  • Men of Valor, Prince of Persia Warrior Within
  • Direct3D 8 games
  • Pariah, Postal 2: Share the Pain, Red Orchestra, Soldner - Secret Wars, Star Wars Republic Commando
  • DirectDraw
  • Hearts of Iron II, The Sims.
  • OpenGL games
  • Return to Castle Wolfenstein
• New games supported: Silent Hill 3, Silent Hill 4, Baldur's Gate, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader, Gothic II, The Sims Online, Magic Online, Thief, Thief 2 The Metal Age, Live for Speed, Spartan, and Gates of Troy.

Enjoy!

• Added custom "game skins" to the infoview for Call of Duty Multiplayer, Battlefield 2, and Unreal Tournament 2004. Even better, we've opened up the system so that you can make your own custom game skins if you can make javascript and html. Learn more about creating game skins.
• Xfire In-Game now uses your keyboard settings as configured in Windows (for example, Dvorak keyboard and azerty keyboard users will get that key mapping).
• Added support for joining Battlefield 2 servers (for Battlefield 2 version 1.01).
• Added a new dialog for new installations that prompt you to add a friend.
• Fixed a few spelling mistakes and typos in group chat.
• Added Xfire In-Game support to
  • Direct3D 9 games
  • PainKiller, PainKiller Battle Out of Hell, Need for Speed Underground 2, Act of War: Direct Action, Tony Hawk Underground 2
  • Direct3D 8 games
  • Knight Online, Operation Flashpoint, Operation Flashpoint: Resistance, Vietcong, Vietcong: Fist Alpha, Rise of Nations, Rise of Nations: Thrones & Patriots, Ghost Recon, Morrowind
  • Direct3D 7 games
  • Aliens vs Predator 2
  • OpenGL games
  • Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• Status field in the infoview should now be updated properly if your friend has a custom status message.
• Fixed an Xfire In-Game bug that would show messages originating from yourself.
• Fixed a problem with Xfire In-Game showing a blank name if the sender's nick has certain non-ASCII characters.
• Added an Xfire In-Game notification message if you're disconnected from the Xfire servers.
• Reworked a lot of the internal structure of the main list view to reduce bugs.
• Reworked a lot of the internal structure of the download server to scale better with the huge number of people downloading files.
• New games supported: Mojo Master, Juiced, Zoo Tycoon, Need for Speed II SE, Need for Speed High Stakes, Need for Speed III, Need for Speed Porsche Unleashed, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2, Half-Life 2 Capture the Flag, Half-Life 2 Substance, Half-Life 2 Gary's Mod, CounterStrike 2D, Continuum (yes, we read the boards), Mafia, Cold Fear, and COR.

Enjoy!

• Improved the detection of game network traffic to reduce the amount of network messages you send/receive on Xfire.
• Added the capability to add subsets of your friends as custom groups to your client (Tools | Add Custom Group...). This feature is still under active development.
• Added the ability to start minimized (Tools | Options, on the General tab).
• Changed privacy settings so that you can block everyone except your friends from sending you messages (Tools | Options, on the Privacy tab, uncheck "Let me and friends of my friends see each other while gaming").
• Improved detection for Plan of Attack.
• More enhancements to group chat, including the ability for an admin to save a group chat as a favorite for everyone in the room.
• Player scores are now listed in UT2k4 server info. This feature is still under active development too.
• Added Xfire In-Game support to C&C Generals, C&C Generals Zero Hour, Planetside, Kal Online, Anarchy Online, Gunz: The duel, DF Black Hawk Down, Eve Online, C&C Renegade, Soldat, Age of Mythology - The Titans Expansion, Age of Mythology, and Tactical Ops.
• Fixed bug with D3D7 Xfire In-Game when moving or resizing the main window.
• Removed two unused .dll files, renamed our registry key to Xfire, and renamed ua_plugin.ini to xfire_games.ini.
• New games supported: Project Snowblind Multiplayer, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, Cossacks II, Universal Combat AWA, Universal Combat Gold, Imperial Glory, Battlefield 2 Demo, 18 Wheels of Steel Pedal to the Metal, Area 51, and Serious Sam (you must run Tools | Find Installed software to detect this).

This release is about a day late because we spent more time than normal fixing problems :). Enjoy!

• More enhancements to group chat, including the Actions | Invite Friends to Room dialog and kick/banning users.
• Improved chat window creation to NOT steal the keyboard focus. This was a very strongly requested feature.
• Auto reconnect added. If you are disconnected from the Xfire servers, you will automatically be reconnected after a short period of time. You can of course still reconnect immediately by hand.
• Added initial Xfire In-Game support for Direct3D 7. It's enabled in No One Lives Forever, Unreal Tournament, Dungeon Siege, and Dungeon Siege - Legends of Aranna.
• Added Xfire In-Game support for Second Life.
• Updated game server info for all of the Source engine games.
• Fixed several bugs that could cause file downloads to stall in rare circumstances.
• New games supported: Dungeon Siege II Beta, Psychonauts, GTR, Pariah, Psychotoxic, Immortal Cities: Children of The Nile, Championship Manager 5, Football Manager 2005, Total Club Manager 2005, Soldiers - Heroes of World War II, Plan of Attack, Total Annihilation, Pro Evolution Soccer 4, Age of Empires, Trackmania Sunrise, PokerStars.com, PokerRoom.com, EmpirePoker.com, and TruePoker.com.

Enjoy!

• Group Chat significantly enhanced. You can now set different users to have different permission levels (controlling who can invite more people, who can speak, etc.). Group chats can also be marked as "favorites" and added to the Group Chat section of the Servers tab, which allows you to leave a group chat and rejoin it minutes, hours, or days later.
• All Xfire settings are now saved if you shut down Windows while Xfire is running.
• Added Xfire In-Game support to Matrix Online and Soldier of Fortune 2.
• Fixed many small user interface problems with the Servers tab.
• Reduced the bandwidth used by the Servers tab, giving more accurate ping times.
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur while logging in.
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes report the wrong IP address for a game when running Ventrilo.
• Added uploading of minidumps, which will help us track down crash bugs that we can't reproduce here at Xfire.
• The full installer adds an App Paths key in the registry for Xfire, so new installations can run Xfire easily from the Run dialog from the Windows start menu.
• Launching Dungeon Siege or DS:LoA now skips the intro movies.
• New games supported: Gaming Club Poker, Winning Eleven 8I, Tropico, Tropico 2 Pirate Cove, Kal Online, Project Snowblind, Splinter Cell, Grand Theft Auto 2, Caesar 3, Pharaoh, Lego Star Wars, Close Combat First to Fight, Empire Earth II, Stronghold 2, The Settlers: Heritage of Kings, Delta Force Xtreme, StillLife.

Enjoy!

• Added the ability to chat with multiple people at the same time in one group chat room. To test it out, right click on someone in your friends list and select Invite to Group Chat. This is the first public release of group chat; we will be enhancing it in coming updates. Tell us what you think on the Forums.
• Added the ability to set Xfire to launch on Windows startup in the Tools | Options dialog.
• Updated language translations for Danish, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, Chinese (Traditional), and Chinese (simplified).
• Fixed a problem where Xfire could crash while attempting to login.
• Fixed game joining for Red Orchestra.
• Fixed Xfire In-Game problem with ancient graphics cards that can't handle textures of a non-power of 2 size (including Nvidia TNT2 cards).
• Fixed a problem where a file download could stall while retrieving metadata.
• New games supported: Silent Hunter III, Nexus - The Jupiter Incident, Act of War: Direct Action, Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time, Colin Mcrae Rally 05, Playboy - The Mansion, Splinter