Unselected Microphone / sv_voiceenable Problem

Maverickk

I've played NS off and on for a few years now and I'm still running into this issue;

Part 1 is the Unselecting Microphone. Despite having all voice_ options turned off in my config.cfg NS <i>always</i> de-selects my microphone as the input device inside of Windows (XP SP2). I have to manually alt-tab out of the game, reselect it and tab back in. I don't use in-game voice comms (nor do I listen to them) I use Teamspeak 2 with my friends. I saw <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?s=3388214473638898688&showtopic=91612&b=1&st=&p=&#entry" target="_blank">this one vague solution</a> but I couldn't understand which "voice volume" parameter he was suggesting.

Part 2 is sv_voiceenable. If I set sv_voiceenable to = 0, then almost every time I start up NS, NS crashes immediately. Once or twice it won't crash but almost always, it crashes. If I set sv_voiceenable to = 1, it never causes a crash. No idea why or what it's doing but it's kinda strange.

System (yes, I know, it's ancient, but it runs NS decently);

PIII 600 Mhz
512 MB Ram
Geforce 4 MX 4000
Direct X 9.0c
Onboard sound card (ESS Allegro) with their most updated drivers
Windows XP Pro SP2

Maverickk

bump

DarKrO

Set sv_voiceenable to 0 in your config.cfg in your /half-life/ns/ folder, then save, get out of it, right click on the file and go to properties, then tick the read-only box and apply, ok. Try again.