Vent, teamspeak, mumble

[SPKmes]

Have or do any of you who use these heard of a program called http://www.projecttint.com/download_tint.php?

I have been checking it out but find that it is power hungry...anybody with knowledge about these things know why it would be so hungry?   I use Teamspeak no worries...when I use tint I have to drop my graphics as  my FPS drops to below 30 when I come in contact with other cons and or friendlies which is a pain cause it actually works well...

It is an interface for those who use Vent, teamspeak or mumble so that you can see who is in channel and also hilights who is speaking.

[Ghosth]

I cheat, we use vent for FSO and I also use it for WoT.

I hooked up a second small monitor off to the right side of my primary.

Skype and Vent live over there, so even if we are flying I can see who entered/left channel, who's transmitting, etc.

Vent Overlay also works well, the only problem is that screen resolution needs to be the same for windows and AH.

[Reschke]

Way back when battlecom and roger wilcox were the cats meow I had a second system setup just to run those software packages without bogging down my gaming rig. Now I have a small file server that I might setup to do the same thing when I get my flight aim pit finished.

As for this program it probably just causes extra system processes to overload the system.

[SectorNine50]

Overlays are very good at sapping performance from 3D games, particularly when your system is already near it's limit.  It's just another layer that the CPU and GPU has to draw on top of all the other 3D images it just rendered.

I do as stated above; I use dual monitors.  Once you go dual, I promise you that you will not go back.  Working on projects that require two different windows open (ie. Browser and Word or Dreamweaver) is ten times faster.