PlayXpert
PLAYXPERT is an in-game tool set targeted towards gamers. It was built by former Xfire users, who felt it could use improvement. It features several in-game widgets, such as multi-protocol instant messaging, web browsing, a media manager, and others, all of which can be opened in-game, eliminating the need to minimize whatever game, or other full-screen application you May Be running. All in-game widgets have adjustable opacity.
Performance
PLAYXPERT's in-game overlay is run on an in-house engine, called PLAYXPERT True Overlay. There is little performance impact, as the overlay works at the operating system's kernel level. This also means that it supports any game, and doesn't depend on explicit support from the game developer.
Features
All in-game widgets are controlled by the Dock feature, which is an interface with all the widget buttons, which can be dragged anywhere on the screen, and has an adjustable opacity.
Instant Messaging
In addition to its own proprietary instant messaging service, it also supports AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, Sony Station Friends, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, and Xfire.
Web Browser
The Web Browser widget supports tabbed browsing, an in-game download manager, and bookmarks.
Diagnostics
The Diagnostics widget is an in-game Task Manager of sorts, which allows you to monitor your CPU usage, RAM usage, network bandwidth usage, and also a process manager, which allows you to end system processes while in-game.
Arcade
The Arcade widget is essentially a game manager, allowing you to launch all your games from it, and see what games your friends have. It also serves as a server browser. The Arcade widget became a standard widget as of Build 1.0.95.1856, on Feb. 27, 2009.
User-Made Widgets
PLAYXPERT supports user-made widgets, and offers them for download in the Widget Gallery section of their web site.
Support
PLAYXPERT currently supports 32-bit Windows XP and Windows Vista. There is no support for 64-bit operating systems, but PLAYXPERT developers have stated that they would be releasing 64-bit drivers shortly after support for 32-bit Vista is released.