Xfire not seeing postal/postalmp

[MrDownerup]

If you have have retail postal2stp skip step1

step 1 .. freeMP . 
you need to rename Postal2MP.exe  to Postal2.exe. If you wish to retain settings Postal2MP.ini must be renamed as well..


step 2 .. in Xfire. go 2 tools / options / then Games tab  .. after the scan completes.. expand not installed list.. find postal2. click on it.. then select Manual Setup.. navigate to  C:\Program Files\Postal2STP ,or whatever directory postal is installed in.. Apply / OK .. now you should be set..

[Bazzerker]

i downloaded Xfire and i signed up and for some reason Postal 2 Free Multipalyer Edition isnt showing up on Xfire you guys are able to do it why cant i is there something missing that i have to get it to work if there is please tell me

[DragonFly]

see here Bazz

http://www.downerup.com/index.php?topic=1452.msg3940#msg3940

[Bazzerker]

Dragonfly i tried that so many times last night and there was no Postal 2 showing up i followed every command no luck what so ever

[MrDownerup]

I haven't been able to get it to work on win 7 myself.

[Bazzerker]

there must be a way for people like me and Downerup to use xfire for Postal 2 when your with Windows 7 it was working fine when you have Windows XP but when you upgrade the software things change everytime when the software changes

[DragonFly]

try this

Open your xfire_games.ini file with notepad (file is located in xfire folder - might be hidden on vista/7 or in a different folder)

Find in that:

Code:



[4401_1]
LongName=Postal 2 Share the Pain
ShortName=postal2
LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Running With Scissors\Postal2STP\Full\US\InstallDir
LauncherDirAppend=\System
LauncherExe=Postal2.exe
DetectExe=Postal2.locked
InstallHint=Postal2.locked
LauncherPasswordArgs=?Password=%UA_GAME_HOST_PASSWORD%
LauncherNetworkArgs=%UA_GAME_HOST_NAME%:%UA_GAME_HOST_PORT%%UA_LAUNCHER_PASSWORD_ARGS%
Launch=%UA_LAUNCHER_EXE_PATH% %UA_LAUNCHER_EXTRA_ARGS% %UA_LAUNCHER_NETWORK_ARGS%
ServerStatusType=UT
InGameRenderer=D3D8


[4401_2]
LongName=Postal 2 Share the Pain
ShortName=postal2
LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Running With Scissors\Postal2STP\Full\US\InstallDir
LauncherExe=system\Postal2.exe
LauncherPasswordArgs=?Password=%UA_GAME_HOST_PASSWORD%
LauncherNetworkArgs=%UA_GAME_HOST_NAME%:%UA_GAME_HOST_PORT%%UA_LAUNCHER_PASSWORD_ARGS%
Launch=%UA_LAUNCHER_EXE_PATH% %UA_LAUNCHER_EXTRA_ARGS% %UA_LAUNCHER_NETWORK_ARGS%
ServerStatusType=UT
InGameRenderer=D3D8


See where it says Postal2.locked? Replace "locked" with "exe" = "Postal2.exe"

Save changes and restart xfire (don't press skip), now go see if xfire found your game as installed, if not, manually look for the exe.

If it's still giving you sunshine, go back to editing xfire_games.ini file and find the same code but this time delete this line from the first Postal 2 entry "LauncherDirAppend=\System" then scroll down to second entry and modify "LauncherExe=system\Postal2.exe" to "LauncherExe=Postal2.exe".

Save changes, restart xfire etc.

[MrDownerup]

awesome.. I had actually tried the first bit.. no such luck,but the second half worked..yaaayy! you da man. 

*need to merge these topics now,hmm

[Bazzerker]

OMG i dont understand that part as much as you do Dragonfly im not a brilliant person on a computer when trying to make something work for one game it makes my bain scramble it seems easy to you but to me it wont do me any good to go with that type of stadigy to make Postal work on Xfire sorry i will just have to write the IP Address all the time untill Query shows on the Postal Server list 

[MrDownerup]

not too bad bazz.. the .ini file he refers 2,is in C:\ProgramData\Xfire  on win7.. you open it with a text editor.. notepad,wordpad,or like.. 

the second half.. deleting the first entry,and removing "system"  worked for me..my problem was when I hit browse,trying to do it manually nothing happened..


LauncherExe=Postal2.exe