Xfire

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DiddyKong42
192 Posts
Posted Oct 31, 2007
Wondering if any one else has Xfire except for me xD.

If you do have xfire, just post it and we could get some game running when people have free time (like tf2 or css or any other games).

Mines is Diddykong42

Feel free to add me.

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Hober
1,180 Posts
Posted Oct 31, 2007
Replied 2 hours later
Used to use XFire, but then a) It started causing my games to crash and b) Valve pushed out the new version of Friends which doesn't suck.
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Mapster
396 Posts
Posted Oct 31, 2007
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Same here as Hober... it slowed my computer down too much... too many updates and well.. couldn't be bothered.
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Grudge
307 Posts
Posted Nov 01, 2007
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Ditto to the hoberage.
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Lorithad
240 Posts
Posted Nov 03, 2007
Replied 2 days later
I use xfire all the time. I actually have two accounts going at once, as I run dual computers.

Since I don't use any special skins, and I have downloads disabled, the program is pretty small. Right now it's using a total of 15 megs of ram. Whoop D doo.

I've never had it conflict with any programs, though I've been hearing of people with problems with it and the newer versions of punkbuster (for EA's battlefield series). But I don't really care about that, as I've stopped purchasing EA products. (They can die in a fire as the saying goes.)

Also: Not accepting random friend invites

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DiddyKong42
192 Posts
Posted Nov 04, 2007
Replied 18 hours later
The only way I saw Xfire slow my comp down is if I had it automaticly run on startup...It would take like 3 minutes longer just to beable to do stuff after it starts up. But other then that there is the occasional error that happens when it crashes your game but that only happens like once like every 3 weeks or so.
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thecake
37 Posts
Posted Nov 04, 2007
Replied 35 minutes later
Xfire is a buggy POS. Having said that I still use it, mainly for voice chat.
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Grudge
307 Posts
Posted Nov 04, 2007
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The cake, you say that like Steam community doesn't have VoIP, or TS / Vent doesn't exist.
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DiddyKong42
192 Posts
Posted Nov 04, 2007
Replied 55 minutes later
xfire voice chat is a pos...

And personally if you actually have had xfire for a while, you notice you don't get glitches barely at all...

I think people hate it because they get there game crashed like 2 times and they just think its shit.

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thecake
37 Posts
Posted Nov 04, 2007
Replied 1 hour later

Grudge wrote:
The cake, you say that like Steam community doesn't have VoIP, or TS / Vent doesn't exist.

I never said the other options were bad its just most of my guild use xfire.

Steam doesn't let me choose which device to use for audio input/output (unless the options are hidden somewhere but I couldn't find em) so I can't use my headset

And I ain't tried TS or Vent.

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Grudge
307 Posts
Posted Nov 05, 2007
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TS and Vent are ftw, but what do you expect, programs specifically designed for Chat!
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Lorithad
240 Posts
Posted Nov 05, 2007
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I'm not much of a fan of teamspeak anymore. I run a ventrilo server for myself and a group of my friends. It origonally was a teamspeak server. And while the teamspeak server was easier to set up, ventrilo wins over all.

I mean, you can have binds for text to speach, binds for recording conversations, you can set individual volume levels for each person on the server (quite easily the thing that won me over.) And there's a much larger variety of codecs that you can pick.

Not to mention the program is a little bit less intensive on the reasorses, and the server can be set to run as a service within windows. I don't even need to log onto my vent server computer in order for it to be up. I just turn it on, and as soon as it's ready for a user to log on, the server is already running in the background.