Got sick of having to alt-tab every time I got xfired ingame, was reading up on it, and there is a workaround that seems to work fine.

Browse to:

"C:\ProgramData\Xfire"

and open the file 'xfire_games.ini', and do a text search for "Battlefield 3", it's game number 6894.

Change all the settings to the following:

[6894]
LongName=Battlefield 3
ShortName=bf3
LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\EA GAMES\Battlefield 3\Install dir
LauncherUrl=http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/
DetectExe=bf3.exe
Launch=%UA_LAUNCHER_URL% %UA_LAUNCHER_EXTRA_ARGS% %UA_LAUNCHER_NETWORK_ARGS%
InGameRenderer=D3D11
InGameFlags=USE_PRESENT|ENABLE_MOUSE|USE_WINDOWS_INPUT
RunElevated=1

Note, this appears to only work for DX11 cards, there is a workaround for DX10, but you have to change the "InGameRenderer=D3D11" to "InGameRenderer=D3D10".

Also, you may have a different registry entry for the installation directory for BF3 depending on 32bit or 64bit and Win version etc, so make sure to change it if so.

Apparently Steam Overlay can work as well by adding Origin to list of steam apps, haven't tried yet.

Edited 3 times, last edited 21/2/12 - 8:21pm.

shit works y0

I don't even have the xfire_games.ini file

Did this a while ago.
You need to edit the file every time xfire updates the file for new games.
Friend of mine also said it crashed his comp after doing this but unconformed.

so this is why glock never use to answer me

**** dat

Yeh you need to re-edit it, but that takes like 10 seconds. And yes it causes directX errors at times when launching BF3, but you just click join again and you will connect.

Still better than having to alt-tab all the time.

the question is why the **** would you use xfire overlay instead of steam?

considering xfire is a bigger piece of shit than steam is

One day neg, your going to implode from your own negativity.

ceebs, i dont use xfire much atm with battlelog anyway, maybe the shitters are xfire will one day work out how to do this and implement it permanently lol

xfire is ******* shit

people always call me mad, den i say but im mad all da tiem so wut do

neg is my favorite forumer