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XFIRE crashs Sins

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June 9, 2008 3:02:46 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums
Well, xfire just crashed an online Sins match...AGAIN! I asked around and apparently a few ppl have had it happen. I'm assuming xfire will take care of it, and I doubt its an issue with Sins itself. I dont really know, I just wanted to see if anyone knew what was up.
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Arakcheev
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Reply #1 June 9, 2008 5:12:46 AM
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xfire does this with a number of games. It happens randomly and so far they've seem little interested in fixing the problem.

It has been crashing hl2 based games for over a year.

I crashed tonight running xfire. The only reason I still run it is to coordinate mplayer games.

The xfire team also has a tendency to blame the game developers for the crashes when it's pretty clear it's xfire's fault. It's pretty sad.
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Thrawn2787
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Reply #2 June 9, 2008 6:17:40 AM
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Hate to break this to you, but there is IRC (also accessible from SDC) and ICO. Also, if you are a steam user, steam doesn't crash sins and (obviously) "hl2 based games" (Source engine games).
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Phazon88
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Reply #3 June 9, 2008 8:36:52 AM
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Xfire seems to have a nasty history of making selective games crash, it was severe enough for me to stop using it. Mind you it wasn't very often but between crashing mid-game and being able to chat with friends I picked the former.
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Nequa
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Reply #4 June 9, 2008 9:48:34 AM
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Well, xfire just crashed an online Sins match...AGAIN! I asked around and apparently a few ppl have had it happen. I'm assuming xfire will take care of it, and I doubt its an issue with Sins itself. I dont really know, I just wanted to see if anyone knew what was up.


seems like I doge the bullet with this one. I was thinking of downloading it.
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Astax
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Reply #5 June 9, 2008 11:22:19 AM
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Yes Xfire does this to a lot of games. And their exemption software seems to run even after you turn the damn thing off! I got the Xfire report screen after few crashes where I had deliberately turned Xfire off. Needless to say the "what I was doing" box got filled with some selective profanity!
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ArcadiaNemetai
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Reply #6 June 9, 2008 11:49:56 AM
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Guess Im lucky that Xfire won't even let me sign on..... lol.
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killerpoodl
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Reply #7 June 9, 2008 2:00:45 PM
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it's never happened to me or anyone i know though xfire

mayble i'm just lucky
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phantomhive004
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Reply #8 June 9, 2008 5:19:09 PM
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XFIRE (when i used to use it) would crash my sins game DAILY! This got so annoying I obviously now don't use Xfire at all.

WARNING:
DO NOT use xfire if you are running SINS OF A SOLAR EMPIRE.

XFIRE sucks to me now. It ruined some amazing games.
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Reply #9 June 9, 2008 6:08:40 PM
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Hate to break this to you, but there is IRC (also accessible from SDC) and ICO. Also, if you are a steam user, steam doesn't crash sins and (obviously) "hl2 based games" (Source engine games).



Steam can't run Sins as a shortcut it blanks out all the text. Don't really care as I only have steam for hl2 deathmatch. Steam can run in the background but no messaging in game for chatting gamers in Sins.

I like Xfire but I guess I will have to exit it when playing Sins when I get it back again. Is it only for Multi or the game entirely?
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