[Default]  Important Announcement - CrossFire No Longer supports WINDOWS XP - 04-16-2014, 06:37 PM
Attention CrossFire players,

As of April 8th, 2014 Microsoft no longer supports Windows XP with updates.

As a result of this, CrossFire will no longer be issuing any technical support for players who have Windows XP and run into problems with CrossFire.



Recently we have stepped up our anti-hacking measures which has included going after a difficult to detect hack. We were successful in that approach and have seen less hackers in game recently.

As a result of us detecting this hack, many users with Windows XP Service Pack 3 were banned.

In fact we tracked this particular incompatibility down to a language pack used in Internet Explorer within Windows XP SP 3 which has been fixed.

Our hack protection systems continue to detect the hacks, however we have been able to update them to account for the accidental blocking of legitimate users due to Windows XP Service Pack 3.

Because of this false positive, players who have never had a ban record will have their ban record removed and theirhonorable soldier ribbon restored.

please note it may take up to 24 hours to restore your ribbon.

Players who have had a previous autoban for hacking have not had any of their bans removed. You have lost the trust of your fellow gamers by hacking in the past. This recent ban does not mean you get a free pass because you may or may not have been hacking.


We are confident that our systems are picking up these newer hacks and we continue to do all we can against hackers and to improve the game.

We are by no means out of the woods, however continual updates to our anti-hacking measures may result in Windows XP incompatibility. Windows XP is an old, unsupported operating system and we may not be able to fix your problem should it arise again.


We recommend players upgrade their Operating System to a legitimate copy of Windows 7 or Windows 8.


In addition, please note that Windows 8.1 support is still in development and while CF should run fine on Windows 8.1 it may not be fully supported.