Problems with in-game sound when using voice prog.

[§nake 0]

I'm havin big problems whenever I use such a program as battlecom, teamspeak, or roger wilco... I have NO game sound, at all... this proved to be very annoying and takes away one of my best sences... anyone know whats up?? I can hear the voice program when talking to my squad mates.. but not being able to hear a tank thats right next to you... pretty damned scary!!

plz help!!!!!!

last time I've looked I had a 16PCI sound card.. and it I bought in october of last year

[Mister Frag 0]

I know you aren't interested in using the built-in voice communications, but have you tried using the Voice Setup in the Preferences program to test your sound hardware?

I order for you to be able to use any voice communications, your card has to be capable of full-duplex operation -- the Voice Setup process will test for that, and make sure that the drivers are DirectX8-compliant.

You can also run the DirectX diagnostics (DXDIAG.EXE) and test the driver there, although this won't test the card's ability to record.

If all else fails, look for newer versions of the sound card drivers. You're going to have to find out exactly what sound card you have, you should be able to find out by looking in the Device Manager in the System applet of the Control Panel.

[§nake 0]

alright, I did the sound test, and had no problems through it... now I should be able to talk and listen.. or not??

[Mister Frag 0]

It means that the sound card and the driver for it are capable of full-duplex operation (recording and playing at the same time).

You may want to check if the VoIP program you intend to use has special configuration options that control how sound is mixed. If there is a generic setup for DirectSound/DirectPlay/DirectX, use that.

By the way, using the built-in VoIP feature has one nice feature that add-ons can't provide: the Side/Vehicle/Direct/Team channels. Also, the vast majority of on-line players use the built-in VoIP, using another program limits you to a small subset of people you can talk to. For clan games that obviously isn't a problem, but for general MP games, it is.