Voice communication

Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT DeputyThe Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
edited August 2011 in NS2 General Discussion
<div class="IPBDescription">devs?</div>So, here's the thing. I've setup two soundcards for my various commentary video's so I can record the commentary live, but still separate from the video audio. So I can change the volume level and mic levels accordingly. Making it easier to understand what I'm going on about in the vids. While still having the ingame sounds at a normal level when playing...

It worked a few builds back, alongside the ingame voice by setting up the Steam voice communication settings to use the secondary soundcard (the one with the mic). What did ya change is what I want to know and how can I force NS2 to use the secondary soundcard instead of the primary. Window also knows the secondary is the recording card, so apparently NS2 is both ignoring Windows and Steam...
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  • KurrineKurrine Join Date: 2010-07-03 Member: 72235Members
    It sounds like NS2 has it's own settings and those settings are stuck on some default if I had to guess..
    I would like proper voice settings eventually too.
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  • PersianImm0rtalPersianImm0rtal Join Date: 2010-12-02 Member: 75414Members, Constellation, NS2 Map Tester
    voice is quite in game
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    Yeah a few builds back, it was working after I fiddled with the Steam Settings where you can change the voice recording hardware to another soundcard. TF2 is still being a ###### though, it works some of the time and sometimes it just creates static when I try to use it.

    So it appears NS2 is no longer using the Steam settings :/



    And the voice volume is indeed quite low at default, you can perhaps change it using the options.xml:

    %appdata%/Natural Selection 2/options.xml

    Default is
    <voiceVolume>90</voiceVolume>

    Perhaps up it to 100, if it's at all percentage related?
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  • NurEinMenschNurEinMensch Join Date: 2003-02-26 Member: 14056Members, Constellation
    Even at 100 it's still very low. I had to set sound and music volume to low and crank up my headphones all the way and voice was still hard to understand if there was any background noise.
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  • MaxMax Technical Director, Unknown Worlds Entertainment Join Date: 2002-03-15 Member: 318Super Administrators, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts, Future Perfect Developer
    <!--quoteo(post=1871609:date=Aug 27 2011, 07:41 PM:name=Kouji_San)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Kouji_San @ Aug 27 2011, 07:41 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1871609"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->It worked a few builds back, alongside the ingame voice by setting up the Steam voice communication settings to use the secondary soundcard (the one with the mic). What did ya change is what I want to know and how can I force NS2 to use the secondary soundcard instead of the primary. Window also knows the secondary is the recording card, so apparently NS2 is both ignoring Windows and Steam...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I rewrote the voice communication code so that it no longer uses Steam, which is why the Steam setting no longer have any effect. I will look into using the device set in Windows.
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