(Voice) OK, what's wrong

Renegade Retard · Feb 21, 2004

Attached screen shots of my settings. I can't get voice to work. I'm using XP. I have my "active public channel" bound to my mouse4, and "active team channel" to mouse5. When I get on the server, I see the "connected to _____ channel" messages. I press the appropriate button and see the message "now chatting in ______ channel." But, I do not see any volume bar, and no one can hear me.

Yes, my headset/mic works in Windows.

BoboThePenguin · Feb 21, 2004

Are you holding down F(defualt)? ^^;

thewalkingman · Feb 21, 2004

I dont see a volume bar either..but didnt you say last night "Buddylee wait for me?"

Capt.Toilet · Feb 21, 2004

Im kinda having the same problem that you are having as well. My question to you is, do ya have an onboard sound card or slot card. And to everyone else, when you speak, should you be able to hear yourself? If the answer is no, then i get the point hehe

BoboThePenguin · Feb 21, 2004

No, when you speak you should not hear yourself, but the volume should go down so you can talk.

Capt.Toilet · Feb 21, 2004

Yes indeed it does goes down, i just dont notice the volume bar and such like renegade said. There arent any servers that have VoIP disabled are there. I thought it was automatic for every team game. I think ill check that out.

Hedge · Feb 21, 2004

Hey ren, go into the input options and click on the customize controls button. Scroll down until you see the option "activate microphone" or such. Set it to whatever button you wish and then press and hold it down to speak while in the game.

Interestingly enough, the voice chat on my computer didn't want to work last night at frag bu.

Yogi_ · Feb 21, 2004

To get mine working, I had to go into my sound control panel recording properties... and under microphone, I have an advanced button. In there, I have a checkbox for "Microphone +20dB Boost". I had to tick that off for it to work.

I think that is something specific to a Soundblaster Live! card, so if you have one of those, it's worth a try.

Renegade Retard · Feb 22, 2004

Hedge said:
Hey ren, go into the input options and click on the customize controls button. Scroll down until you see the option "activate microphone" or such. Set it to whatever button you wish and then press and hold it down to speak while in the game.

Interestingly enough, the voice chat on my computer didn't want to work last night at frag bu.

That did the trick.

I was confused in thinking the "active public channel" was the key I needed to speak.

Thanks everyone.

rhirud · Feb 22, 2004

Well either
a. People ignore what I broadcast
or
My voice system isn't working.

But I have a SB and the +20 issue might explain things.

Burning Fish · Feb 22, 2004

I haven't been able to order the bots, they don't respond and I do hold the "Activate Microphone" while speaking. I'm using a normal microphone on my soundcard.

5150 · Feb 22, 2004

Yogi_ said:
To get mine working, I had to go into my sound control panel recording properties... and under microphone, I have an advanced button. In there, I have a checkbox for "Microphone +20dB Boost". I had to tick that off for it to work.

I think that is something specific to a Soundblaster Live! card, so if you have one of those, it's worth a try.

It's not just SB-My asus onboard has it.

Between the above, and not knowing what key to press, seems to be the majority of peoples problems.

DEFAULT
F=Push to talk
P=Public
I=Team
O=Local

P,I,O selects where you want to be.

B · Feb 22, 2004

Not seeing the volume on screen is prolly because your screen is set too wide. The volume bar is on the very left edge of the screen, and might fall behind the sides of the screen. Try adjusting your monitor.

Renegade Retard · Feb 22, 2004

_Zd_Bee_ said:
Not seeing the volume on screen is prolly because your screen is set too wide. The volume bar is on the very left edge of the screen, and might fall behind the sides of the screen. Try adjusting your monitor.

Also, if the game volume doesn't go waaaaay down when you active microphone, then it's not working.

Sir_Brizz · Feb 22, 2004

Burning Fish said:
I haven't been able to order the bots, they don't respond and I do hold the "Activate Microphone" while speaking. I'm using a normal microphone on my soundcard.

You have to install the Microsoft Speech SDK.

Burning Fish · Feb 24, 2004

I installled Microsoft Speech SDK 5.1. I'll try it tonight.

Burning Fish · Feb 25, 2004

I tried it but it still doesn't work. I press the key I binded to the "Activate Microphone". The volume goes down, I don't hear myself, I give command but they don't respond to me.

Sir_Brizz · Feb 25, 2004

does the meter appear on the left, and if so, does it rise and lower with your voice?

I found out last night that a big reason some microphones won't work on Creative Cards is thanks to their recorder. Go into your Volume controls in MediaSource Player or PlayCenter 3 and where it has the RED VOLUME CONTROL click above the volume control, and change it to Microphone instead of "What You Hear" or Analog or whatever it is set to. Found this bug last night.

Burning Fish · Feb 25, 2004

Thanks for the tips. I haven't started to talk online. I was talking about giving bots orders, just in Instant Action, after that I'll try to get the online talking to work

, so thx for the feedback but can you also help me with my actual problem?

Sir_Brizz · Feb 25, 2004

My suggestions didn't help??

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