In-game voice chat is extremely quiet and I am unable to hear my teammates

ZimbuTheMonkeyZimbuTheMonkey Join Date: 2010-07-14 Member: 72359Members
edited September 2011 in NS2 General Discussion
Hey guys,

My sound setting is at maximum (in-game, Steam and in Windows), but the in-game voice chat is too quiet even if I have all other game sounds turned off. I don't have this problem with other games using Steamworks.

Anyone experience this? How do I fix it?
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  • basti1337basti1337 Join Date: 2011-05-13 Member: 98538Members
    This problem has been discussed on the forums here for like 100 times and on getsatisfaction as well:
    <a href="http://getsatisfaction.com/unknownworlds/topics/make_voice_volume_independent_from_sound_volume" target="_blank">http://getsatisfaction.com/unknownworlds/t...om_sound_volume</a>

    I hope this will be fixed in 186
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  • ZimbuTheMonkeyZimbuTheMonkey Join Date: 2010-07-14 Member: 72359Members
    Ah, thanks.

    I didn't realize it was such a common problem.
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  • 1stToast1stToast Join Date: 2007-12-02 Member: 63067Members
    I've been able to hear fine for the most part.
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  • AsranielAsraniel Join Date: 2002-06-03 Member: 724Members, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Playtester, Retired Community Developer
    ns2 uses its own voice chat. The quality is better than when they used steamworks. The only issue right now is the volume.
    It already improved, because you can change the volume, its just that the maximum volume is too low.
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  • ShiloriusShilorius Join Date: 2011-01-14 Member: 77445Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    edited October 2011
    <!--quoteo(post=1877237:date=Sep 27 2011, 10:41 PM:name=Asraniel)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Asraniel @ Sep 27 2011, 10:41 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1877237"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->ns2 uses its own voice chat. The quality is better than when they used steamworks. The only issue right now is the volume.
    It already improved, because you can change the volume, its just that the maximum volume is too low.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    That is not enterely true.
    Maybe it is just for me, but I tried reducing the volume for all other sounds and the music while leaving the speaking volume on 100%.
    It didn't work. Also I tired increasing the Voice volume to 150% (via an edit of the options.xml) and it didn't work.
    But somehow the volume of the voices increased if I crank the overall sound...
    Turning the voice volume down to 0 does not work either, I can still hear people who use the voicechat.

    In my opinion the Voice volume setting doesn't work.. voices are still attached to the main sound setting..
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  • CygoneCygone Join Date: 2011-05-29 Member: 101528Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1877678:date=Oct 1 2011, 03:15 PM:name=Shilorius)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Shilorius @ Oct 1 2011, 03:15 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1877678"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->That is not enterely true.
    Maybe it is just for me, but I tried reducing the volume for all other sounds and the music while leaving the speaking volume on 100%.
    It didn't work. Also I tired increasing the Voice volume to 150% (via an edit of the options.xml) and it didn't work.
    But somehow the volume of the voices increased if I crank the overall sound...
    Turning the voice volume down to 0 does not work either, I can still hear people who use the voicechat.

    In my opinion the Voice volume setting doesn't work.. voices are still attached to the main sound setting..<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Exactly what I have found, the voice volume is tied to main volume, so you basically cant increase the voice volume without increasing everything else. Only way to increase voice volume is to have the other person increase the mic input level
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