XFire

[Bleeder91[NL]]

Stalwart figured it out once, but i can't find it anymore and it worked when i tried it a year ago. so any1 knows how to get xfire ingame in unreal1?

[pickledegg]

i still have it saved somewhere but it doesn't seem to work anymore with that.
and yeey i still feel drunk from yesterday got kicked out some gay ass party ^^

[[]KAOS[]Casey]

xfiregames.ini
d3d8/9/ogl

profit!

[mentalhunter]

Now 'we're discuising Xfire anyways, i'd like some new friends on Xfire, so if there are more people feeling the same PM me the xfire nickname?

[[§Ŕ] ŤhěxĐâŕkśîđěŕ]

My XFire nickname is ThexDarksider (of course) but I use XFire rarely to never... lol

[pickledegg]

i still have the file saved for xfire in game if anyone needs it just pm or mail me.

[Bleeder91[NL]]

xfire updated so that file didn't work for me, but I found a way to fix it tho.

if you have vista, open C:\programdata\xfire\xfire_games.ini, if you have windows 7 or XP... no idea where to look :X some1 can look that up for me?

Search for the line: [4316_1]
and you'll find something like this:

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[4316_1]
LongName=Unreal
ShortName=unreal
LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\Unreal.exe\Path
LauncherExe=system\unreal.exe
LauncherPasswordArgs=?password=%UA_GAME_HOST_PASSWORD%
LauncherNetworkArgs=%UA_GAME_HOST_NAME%:%UA_GAME_HOST_PORT% %UA_LAUNCHER_PASSWORD_ARGS%
Launch=%UA_LAUNCHER_EXE_PATH% %UA_LAUNCHER_EXTRA_ARGS% %UA_LAUNCHER_NETWORK_ARGS%
ServerStatusType=UT


[4316_2]
LongName=Unreal
ShortName=unreal
LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Valve\Steam\InstallPath
LauncherExe=Steam.exe
DetectExe=SteamApps\common\unreal gold\system\unreal.exe
LauncherPasswordArgs=?password=%UA_GAME_HOST_PASSWORD%
LauncherNetworkArgs=%UA_GAME_HOST_NAME%:%UA_GAME_HOST_PORT% %UA_LAUNCHER_PASSWORD_ARGS%
Launch=%UA_LAUNCHER_EXE_PATH% -applaunch 13250 %UA_LAUNCHER_EXTRA_ARGS% %UA_LAUNCHER_NETWORK_ARGS%
InGameRenderer=D3D7
InGameFlags=ENABLE_MOUSE|USE_DINPUT_MOUSE|DISABLE_VIDEO_CAPTURE
VistaInGameFlags=ENABLE_MOUSE|USE_DINPUT_MOUSE|DISABLE_VIDEO_CAPTURE|DISABLE_SCREENSHOTS
ServerStatusType=UT

there are 2 Unreal's there, at both of them add the following lines:
InGameRenderer[0]=D3D7
InGameRenderer[1]=DDRAW
InGameRenderer[2]=OGL

that should do the trick. if you use another renderer just add a line like this:
InGameRenderer[3]=D3D8

Now you have this:

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[4316_1]
LongName=Unreal
ShortName=unreal
LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\Unreal.exe\Path
LauncherExe=system\unreal.exe
LauncherPasswordArgs=?password=%UA_GAME_HOST_PASSWORD%
LauncherNetworkArgs=%UA_GAME_HOST_NAME%:%UA_GAME_HOST_PORT% %UA_LAUNCHER_PASSWORD_ARGS%
Launch=%UA_LAUNCHER_EXE_PATH% %UA_LAUNCHER_EXTRA_ARGS% %UA_LAUNCHER_NETWORK_ARGS%
ServerStatusType=UT
InGameRenderer[0]=D3D7
InGameRenderer[1]=DDRAW
InGameRenderer[2]=OGL


[4316_2]
LongName=Unreal
ShortName=unreal
LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Valve\Steam\InstallPath
LauncherExe=Steam.exe
DetectExe=SteamApps\common\unreal gold\system\unreal.exe
LauncherPasswordArgs=?password=%UA_GAME_HOST_PASSWORD%
LauncherNetworkArgs=%UA_GAME_HOST_NAME%:%UA_GAME_HOST_PORT% %UA_LAUNCHER_PASSWORD_ARGS%
Launch=%UA_LAUNCHER_EXE_PATH% -applaunch 13250 %UA_LAUNCHER_EXTRA_ARGS% %UA_LAUNCHER_NETWORK_ARGS%
InGameRenderer=D3D7
InGameFlags=ENABLE_MOUSE|USE_DINPUT_MOUSE|DISABLE_VIDEO_CAPTURE
VistaInGameFlags=ENABLE_MOUSE|USE_DINPUT_MOUSE|DISABLE_VIDEO_CAPTURE|DISABLE_SCREENSHOTS
ServerStatusType=UT
InGameRenderer[0]=D3D7
InGameRenderer[1]=DDRAW
InGameRenderer[2]=OGL

next, restart XFire, Games - Detect Games. Then click Unreal, and at the right, click the drop-down box below "In-Game Renderer" and choose your renderer (if you don't know what your renderer is, open unreal, Options- advanced options - drivers)

Now all should be okay. results:

[Sly.]

Sorry for the bump and if this was answered already somewhere, I didn't find any results that did work here, not even on the xfire forums. Didn't want to open a new thread especially for this if one exists.

I'm using Windows 7 fyi.

The problem I have is that manual detection for Unreal GOLD (Anthology version) in xfire doesn't work (and automatical detection doesn't work either), it searches for the steam.exe, whysoever, and I am not really interested in adding it to Steam just to have xfire ingame support.

First of all, I tried the trick mentioned above. It didn't work, so I tried to manually detect the unreal.exe.
First it was searching for the steam.exe once again, I changed it to unreal.exe and went to the directory and selected unreal.exe. After that, once again the same.

Then I tried to apply the changes, however, I got an error message - again, just like every other single time - , which says this:

Unable to find the following files:

D:\Programme\Unreal Anthology\UnrealGold\System\system\unreal.exe

D:\Programme\Unreal Anthology\UnrealGold\System\Steam.exe
d:\programme\unreal anthology\SteamApps\common\unreal gold\unreal.exe

for game Unreal.
Please double check the path, and try again.

It's driving me nuts, I just don't have any solution for this...

[Sly.]

PS: Sorry for double-posting, for some odd reason I don't have a modify button on the above post, otherwise I would have edited it instead.

Before you ask: Yes, I'm well aware that it says two times system, but I have no idea why and how to change that, it could be possible that this may be the reason why it cannot find the exe.

[pickledegg]

Look for it manual and yes 2 times system can cause this becouse its looking for a system folder in youre system folder.
Wich not exists so try deleting 1 system in the adress bar.

[[]KAOS[]Casey]

You need to be running d3d8/9 or opengl for it to work at all

[[]KAOS[]Casey]

I guess this old topic doesn't have an edit button, as I don't see it either.

D:\Programme\Unreal Anthology\UnrealGold\System\system\unreal.exe

See the double System? probably a bad path. Your best bet is to manually edit the ini containing the paths.

[Bleeder91[NL]]

You can use XFire Game Customizer from XFireplus. It auto-detects renderer too and has some more interesting things.
http://xfireplus.com/downloads
You have to add it everytime XFire updates though.

[Sly.]

Uff... How could I oversee this little line:

LauncherExe=system\unreal.exe

Removed 'system\', now it seems to work, well it's in the list at least, didn't try yet.

It must be the heat here...
*facepalm*

[BobIsUnreal]

related note:
if you using additional command-lines for unreal in xfire such as "-timestamplog" you need to edit the ini to be

"Launch=%UA_LAUNCHER_EXE_PATH% -applaunch 13250 %UA_LAUNCHER_NETWORK_ARGS%  %UA_LAUNCHER_EXTRA_ARGS%"

otherwise you wont be able to join servers via the xfire server browser.
the server ip needs to be the first argument of it will fail.

[Pitbull]

PS: Sorry for double-posting, for some odd reason I don't have a modify button on the above post, otherwise I would have edited it instead.

Near the top of the forum you should see a button that says "update session"  Once you relogin you will have your modify button back. This happens because you logged in with another IP address or different host.

[Sly.]

Okay, thanks for the info pitbull!

It doesn't seem to work, xfire does recognize it as an installed game, but xfire ingame is still off, I tried it with D3D7 and D3D8.

OGL doesn't work here either.

The only thing I want is the little xfire ingame pop up window to appear in the lower right corner, is it really that hard to get it working? It's driving me crazy. :-/

[Bleeder91[NL]]

is it really that hard to get it working?

problem? y u no use xfire game customizer?!

[Sly.]

Oops, didn't see your post, but I think I don't need it anymore anyway...

No idea what I did... but it works now.
I guess it could have been a random xfire bug, there was an update, I redid every single change and suddenly xfire ingame worked.
Wish I could give a detailled report of what could have triggered that in case someone else runs across this problem, but I really have no idea. :-/

[GreatEmerald]

By the way, if you want to not lose your changes and don't want to rely on external tools, you should use WinMerge to create a patch file, then apply it with GNU Patch on each update. At least that's what I used when I still used Windows, and it worked pretty well.

[Sly.]

Okay, thanks for the tip Emerald!
Will note that down and check it out once I'm back from holidays (gone for 1 1/2 weeks in an hour).

And thanks for the overall help guys!