Hmmm. One day i decided to plug in the microphone and talk with it over NS games. Right. Plugged in, set the input volume, test, works fine.

I start the game, join a server and start talking. The little speaker is shown when i'm holding the voice comm key. "Hi all, how's it going..." "Anybody hears me?" "Helloooo?"

Nothing. It seems that no one actually hears me. Help?

PS:Yes, i have the "enable voice comm in this mod" enabled.

Try setting "voice_loopback 1", "voice_enable 1" and voice_modenable 1;".

Loopback means you hear your own voice (similarly) to how others may hear it, and enable and modenable turn on voice for the half life engine and for that particular mod, respectively. I'm pretty sure you have both of those enabled if you see the speaker, though. Loopback might help give you an idea of how it's sounding.

Here's a quote from my config file (I spent too many hours of my life commenting all the cvars, heh.) I can't promise it'll work for you, and you'd better remember what your current settings are before changing. That said...

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voice_modenable 1 // Mod specific enabling. voice_enable 1  // Enables voice. voice_loopback 1 // Allows you to hear your own words. voice_scale 3  // VOICE ONLY volume multiplier in game. voice_overdrive 1 // Lowers other sound when someone speaks. Above one lowers volume, under one raises. voice_overdrivefadetime 0 // Time during which overdrive settings fade in and out. voice_maxgain 1.5   // Maximum gain to apply. Gain softens sound, less hard noises. voice_avggain 0.5 // Average gain to apply. Too low, too jarring, to high, too soft. voice_fadeouttime 0 // How YOUR mic fades in/out when starting and stopping talking.

Terr,

That's cool I'd actually like to see a copy of your config or at least a link to the site where you got descriptions of all the cvars. Most sites I've been to seem a bit outdated in terms of newer commands.

Gah, im having the same problem.

Should I just go through and set everything to what you have posted, Terr?

you probably have already done this, but go into Sierra, Half-life (our Counter-strike if you have retail) and go to the voice config thing, run the test there and it should work fine, i couldnt just plug it in and use it.

My voice com is very unrealible it works alight sometimes but most of the time it is heavily garbled and noone can understand me, anyone know what could cause this?

Snake13 my experience with helping people with voice comms it usualy comes down to one of three things.

a) Your mic is too close to your mouth. for some unknown reason a lot of people seem to believe that you need to be practicly eating your mic for it to work. This is not the case have the mic so it is about 1 to 1½ inches from your mouth and just below it so you are not breathing onto it.

b) Voice transmit levels way too high. try turning them down a bit and you may find that your voice comms will becaome a whole hell of a lot clearer.

c) Cheap headset or using a desktop mic. Headsets seem to be one area that people think they can get away with cheap. I paid £50 UKP for me headset and it is crystal clear on both voice transmit and for the game sounds. You get what you pay for get a good headset and your voice quality will improve for it.

Hope this helps

QUOTE (Snake13 @ Nov 14 2002, 02:02 PM)

My voice com is very unrealible it works alight sometimes but most of the time it is heavily garbled and noone can understand me, anyone know what could cause this?

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mic help^

great config!