Question about xfire.

[Robert Stork]

Does anyone know how to get xfire to work with steam version of race 07 and gtr evo?

 

[Jamie R]

It doesn't unfortunatly. It only keeps track of how long you play it.

 

[Oliver Amos]

It's possible.

You have to firstly make sure hidden files are shown, then go:

C:\ProgramData\Xfire

Then open xfire_games.ini

Next step is to find Race07. Which should looks like this:

[5233]
LongName=RACE 07
ShortName=race07
LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Valve\Steam\InstallPath
LauncherExe=steam.exe
DetectExe=SteamApps\*\race 07\Race_Steam.exe
InstallHint=steamapps\*\race 07\mss32.dll
Launch=%UA_LAUNCHER_EXE_PATH% -applaunch 8600
_LAUNCHER_EXTRA_ARGS%
_LAUNCHER_NETWORK_ARGS%
RunElevated=1

And make the race07 section look like this instead:

[5233]
LongName=RACE 07
ShortName=race07
LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Valve\Steam\InstallPath
LauncherExe=steam.exe
DetectExe=SteamApps\*\race 07\Race_Steam.exe
InstallHint=steamapps\*\race 07\mss32.dll
Launch=
_LAUNCHER_EXE_PATH% -applaunch 8600
_LAUNCHER_EXTRA_ARGS%
_LAUNCHER_NETWORK_ARGS%
RunElevated=1
InGameRenderer=D3D9
InGameFlags=USE_PRESENT|ENABLE_MOUSE|USE_DINPUT_MOUSE

This works, however, at every xfire program/game update this fix will have to be re-done.

 

[Robert Stork]

i don't have an xfire_games.ini file. hmm..

 

[Robert Stork]

found it. for vista/7 its in programdata instead of program files

 

[Oliver Amos]

found it. for vista/7 its in programdata instead of program files

Yeh, if you read it again. I said programdata.

 

[Robert Stork]

oops xP

 

[Mike Roe]

Great, thanks for that, I've been wondering if this would work for a while

 

[Rob Goldthorpe]

I've asked a few times on the xfire forum to support Race 07 In game chat, they never listen

 

[James Yates]

I've asked a few times on the xfire forum to support Race 07 In game chat, they never listen

Its been mentioned on there a lot of times but they seem to think it isn't worth bothering, even though it works completely fine if you do it yourself.

 

[Robert Stork]

is there a way to make it work with the offline version of gtr evolution?