Download Xfire 1.98

Xfire released version 1.98 of its chat program of the same name yesterday. The program is mainly intended for avid gamers, and makes it possible to chat via text and speech both inside and outside games. Furthermore, statistics are kept of the performance in various games, you can see which games the people from your contact list are currently playing and game patches and demos can be downloaded via your own p2p network. Currently, more than 1250 games are supported, 191 of which are the so-called ‘one click join‘ and over 800 ‘in game chat‘ support. Full changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Release notes for 1.98:

• 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
  • STALKER: Clear Sky
  • Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
  • Warhammer Online Beta
  • Crysis Warhead
  • crysis war

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