Football Manager 2011 Xfire Support WITHOUT Steam

[Matty661]

Hey.

I'm sure I'm not the first one here that hates Steam.. but anyhow..

I installed my game without steam support and decided to try and log my hours with xfire. At the moment it looks like Xfire only supports Steam compatibility but I really want to start logging my hours! For all of you that do not know what Xfire is.. it's a gaming program that allows you to interact with other people and record all your game hours on every game thinkable. It's really irritating me. I search around the web and there was a couple of people say its somethign to do with your xfire_games.ini file in the hidden folder "Program Data". Personally, I've tryed it and nothing works. Do you think I'm best hoping that xfire do and update themselves that supports FM11 without Steam? What do you think? Not sure if many of you guys use the program but wanted to create the thread for people that also are having problems with this.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers
Matt

 

[Lee]

Chances are they won't add support for the non-Steam version. But like you've discovered it should be possible by editing the games.ini file. I know it's possible for other Steam games that you haven't installed via Steam.

 

[Matty661]

Yeah that's what really annoys me. I found a site that told me I go into the file and replace the Football Manager 2011 part of it with

[6321]
LongName=Football Manager 2011
ShortName=ftblmngr11
LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2011\InstallPath
LauncherExe=fm.exe
DetectExe=fm.exe
Launch=%UA_LAUNCHER_EXE_PATH% -applaunch 34220 %UA_LAUNCHER_EXTRA_ARGS% %UA_LAUNCHER_NETWORK_ARGS%
InGameRenderer=D3D9
InGameFlags=USE_PRESENT|ENABLE_MOUSE

It's really irritating me. Do you personally use Xfire?

 

[Lee]

Used to, haven't used it for about a year now.

Plus I like Steam.

 

[Matty661]

Ah right.. no problems for you then! lol.

 

[Lee]

After you edit your .ini file are you configuring xfire to manually detect it from your custom install location?

 

[Matty661]

After you edit your .ini file are you configuring xfire to manually detect it from your custom install location?

Yeah. I manually configure it but still no luck.

 

[Matty661]

I just formatted my PC.. not just for this problem but did the exact same thing as above on Windows XP and it works fine now. Not sure what the problem was!