Online chat in gaming ?

[Rubberscoob]

Is it possible to have a private chat while playing online games ? if so how do you set this up ?

[chqshaitan]

a chat by typing or by voice? if voice, thats easy as there are loads of different products out and about for that. Check out teamspeak and ventrilo for starters.

[moogle]

if you mean speak then you can use ventrilo or teamspeak2 if you have a server. or you could use xfire to communicate ingame with friends.

[DavidM]

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[moogle]

Teamspeak is one of the better options - I hope to get this working with the Hexus Clan as well.

disadvantages are:

you can't set your outbound or inbound (out - how loud you speak, in - how loud you hear)
yes you can use windows to set this up but you cant adjust how loud you hear and that matters when playing games where you need to hear the enemy and your friends too.

[cougarslam]

think he means on PS3 not PC as its posted in the Sony/PS3 forum.

[Jay]

Teamspeak is one of the better options - I hope to get this working with the Hexus Clan as well.

Its very easy to setup, I have set it up a few time and already have a TS server you could use!

[moogle]

think he means on PS3 not PC as its posted in the Sony/PS3 forum.

whoops, dunno how the hell you'd do that then

[DavidM]

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[Rubberscoob]

sorry i mean while playing games on ps3

Cant you chat while gaming like on xbox ?

[Jay]

if you both have laptops TS is still a valid option.

[spazman]

sorry i mean while playing games on ps3

Cant you chat while gaming like on xbox ?

No, you cant.

[moogle]

No, you cant.

guess they'll need to buy laptops then
wireless routers too but everyone has one these days.

[Rubberscoob]

thats a bit poor really for a system like the ps3.

[educatedfool]

disadvantages are:

you can't set your outbound or inbound (out - how loud you speak, in - how loud you hear)
yes you can use windows to set this up but you cant adjust how loud you hear and that matters when playing games where you need to hear the enemy and your friends too.

Teamspeak has an volume slider to adjust the output (speaker) volume. But yeah it has no input (Mic) volume, but it's not hard to adjust with windows.

I personally prefer TS, for some reason I think Vent sounds like talking with a blocked nose. Maybe it's just because I've been on TS for years.

[moogle]

Teamspeak has an volume slider to adjust the output (speaker) volume. But yeah it has no input (Mic) volume, but it's not hard to adjust with windows.

I personally prefer TS, for some reason I think Vent sounds like talking with a blocked nose. Maybe it's just because I've been on TS for years.

Yeah I started with Vent so I can see why you like TS. I've dabbled with both and I tried that noise option too because my motherboard audio drivers were gay locking the mic level at it's own level. When I lowered the sound it would lower my mic vol too as my mates would say they couldn't hear me.

It could be that the vent servers you were on had bad codecs in use

Best settings are GSM 6.10, 44Khz 16 bit.

But also I forgot to add sometimes you get those people with badly configured outbounds and everyone sounds normal except for them who are high high volume. In vent you can modify their volume, pitch, frequency etc for each person.