Voice setup.

[Wilier]

It could be my cheap tacky mic, but I cant set my mic up on my Sounblaster 64pci with XP. All the other sounds are spot on, just me that dosnt come out unless I really SHOUT, and then its a mess.

(and dont tell me to drop XP, it took that long to set it up, that I aint givin up yet)

 

[old.Kurt_Angle]

Yeah i bought a decent mic which turned out to be absolute crap.

So i turned back to the trusted desk mic, i don't think i'll be spending any more money on a new one anytime soon.

Voice ain't realy that great anyway, the apeal soon wears off, if all you do is public bash.

 

[Wilier]

I agree, voice on pubs aint worth it, but its good for clan matches, RW is better, but too laggy for us nasty HPBers.

 

[old.GateKeeper]

Try putting this in your command line.

+voice_dsound 1

I had a problem with XP where i sounded all garbled.

Hope this helps

[NKO]GAteKeeper

 

[old.Vagour]

Humm

a) dump XP, sorry but iv been there, seen that etc
b) make sure uv activated the mic in configuration.

stoopid i know but u never know

 

[Ch3tan]

CS voice is much clearer and better for HPB's in clangames. However Valve didn't give us the option to talk while dead. It would have been easy for them to add a servside variable that let you talk to the living while dead, specially for clan games.

RW lets you do this and thus gets used, however RW is still very bad software, sounds quality varies dramatically, it wont run on some setups and can be a pain to setup for a whole clan.

 

[Wilier]

Hmmm, found the prob thanks. It would appear that my soundcard is nazzed (lol, I aint said that since school)

Plays sound OK, but no mic. Bugger.
Still good excuse to get a swanky new card, any suggestions??

 

[Ch3tan]

audidgy Ex

 

[Wilier]

Why does it have to be the most expensive??

Tis only a fecking sound card, I didnt pay that much for me mobo.

 

[Will]

In that case, get a better mobo too.

 

[Rubber Bullets]

I use a Hercules Game Theatre XP, brilliant. Surround sound, even through headphones! It has got me called a wallhacker a couple of times

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[Summo]

Originally posted by Wilier
Why does it have to be the most expensive?? Tis only a fecking sound card

My view exactly. Why bother with a surround-sound card if you don't have the speakers?

I recently had to replace my old ISA sound card as it finally gave up. Bought a Creative PCI512 for £30 from my local Staples which does the job nicely and has EAX hardware stuff. Sounds beefier than my old card as well as handling whatever's thrown at it. Very pleased.

You can pick up the PCI128 version for £17.

 

[Ch3tan]

Weel you can get a sblive for around £30, and sblive 5.1 for around £50.

 

[Wilier]

OK, thanks, so long as you say its ok.