A friend of mine was having a problem when he ran VO and Teamspeak. Whenever VO was maximized and playing any audio received by TS was choppy. When minimizing VO, TS worked fine.

I hope this is the right place but wanted to post the solution so others may benefit from our hair pulling.

This is Windows XP SP2 and the latest release of TS and VO.

I tried setting use_dsound=1 as described at:

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/4/17451#225710

But that did not work, what did work was setting direct sound in Teamspeak instead of the default of Wav for input and output sound. It's in Teamspeak in Settings->Options .

Hope this helps someone.

-Adut

TS isn't of much use here.

*tossing my two cents in*

Well, not usually. But when running in a group, it'd be amazing. We just usually don't have places where it's useful.

Nation wars would be an excellent place for using TS/ventrillo

I think it would be pretty sweet if the devs implemented an ingame VoIP thingy

it's not trivial.

I'm in a guild and we play lots of games and use TS for grouping and chatting. I don't usually use the integrated audio in games anyway. I usually just run TS in the background. You can create different channels for different factions/groups and setting up a server is pretty easy.

Teamspeak was awesome in ITAN because we could make fun of Smittens and Spidey for their voices.

Smittens especially.

Orly...

Teamspeak was awesome in ITAN because we could make fun of Smittens and Spidey for their voices.

/me seems to recall a .wav of this somewhere... might have been the [ITAN] forums.

I resent that Leber. You can make fun of my voice, but in referring to it in the same sentence as spidey's voice you imply that my voice is whiny, high pitched, and incredibly annoying. It may be extremely manly and hilarious in that aspect, but it most definitely is not spidey quality!

Our guild uses Skype and it seems a lot clearer and easier to use.
I do believe there is a limit to size of the groups you can have though.
Just sharing what works for me.

Chi

Skype is limited to something like 7-8 people per conference call.

That's ok, VO is limited to something like 20-30 people on at any given time. The chances of more than 8 of them being in your guild is slim; the chance of more than 8 of them being in your group (if groups haven't changed) is zero.

Skype uses a LOT more resources than teamspeak when it's running.

TS > Skype

TS/Ventrillo > skype

i'm inclined to side with the doc this time.

I've had the same problem with the VO/TS choppiness. Make sure you have the latest sound drivers, it helps significantly.

SCAR had some awesome times with our TS server. It made working together in groups (and Nation War) a lot more interesting and easier. It was just plain fun once everyone got over their nervousness and started talking. Lots of laughs often ensued.

I had massive audio choppiness with Vendetta and Ambrosia Software's video capture utility, Snapzro.

Never did really fix that issue. I got a new computer instead, which is scarily close to the solution Dilbert's pointy-haired boss would come up with.

Scary. Maybe I'm destined to claw my way up to senior management...