Author Topic: HT ? Any improvements comin to AHV for 1.10? (Read 407 times)

SKurj · « **on:** May 20, 2002, 11:13:39 AM »

I have to ask...

As AHV currently stands I can understand about 10% of all messages recieved. 90% are either too low to hear or garbled.

Who sent that message? I can't tell if its a squaddie or someone in range. (player handle dissappears too fast)

Its a great idea, just needs tweaking

I have setup AHV properly. I have the most common soundcard in AH.

SKurj

loser · « **Reply #1 on:** May 20, 2002, 09:39:36 PM »

ya know skurj it is weird.

about 10% of the people i talk to sound like they are standing next to me. 60% of the people i talk to sound okay, but it is definatley a voice program. The remainder sound like garbage.

Thing is it doesnt seem to have anything to do with net status, ping, brand or sort of microphone, or location. (geographically speaking)

im wondering what is up too

Tumor · « **Reply #2 on:** May 20, 2002, 10:46:00 PM »

With a little minor tweaking I hear pretty much everyone just fine. If not, it's usually because they either have bad mic volume or the mic is too far away or too close to them. Mess around with your in game volume controls and be sure you at least turn the engine sound down (and the Raid Siren) significantly. There is a happy medium, just experiment.

Innominate · « **Reply #3 on:** May 20, 2002, 10:59:35 PM »

The people you cant hear are because of the mic boost problem. (Many mics require mic boost to be on for them to have any volume) For some reason, the game enjoys turning it off at random times to piss us off.

As for garbled people, a few things cause it, being too close to a mic, having a broken mic, running another voice app in the background, background noise, and simply broken computers.

DmdNexus · « **Reply #4 on:** May 21, 2002, 08:10:48 AM »

AHV is 5x5 compared to real radio coms - and anyone who knows what a TU hum is knows what I'm talking about.

Be thankful AHV does not simulate static and throat mics.

any ways to the point, it's working fine for me. But every now and then can hear, but not speak, and some times folks come in low or garbled, but that's usually something they need to fix with their settings.

ergRTC · « **Reply #5 on:** May 22, 2002, 09:36:15 AM »

Others in my squad have had occassional problems, but I have found the system absolutely flawless. People say I am always very clear sounding. The way others sound always depend on there settings and mic QUALITY. Whenever I cant hear someone well it is invariably mic quality. You get what you pay for and alot of people get ripped off.

A couple of guys in our squad have recurring cut out problems as well, but since it is always the same guys, I am figuring that has more to do with setup and machinery on their end than the AH side. I mean for christs sake the darn program is about 30kb in size. Not a whole to go wrong in 30kb. I think they have produced the most useful communication tool for games yet.

I use a telex usb microphone (built for telemarketers not gamers, 40 dollars at best buy, worth every penny), xp, and have an ancient c-media sound card, scavenged it out of a computer I found in a dumpster years ago. If that thing works, I cant think of what wouldnt.

also, people are always guilty of having bad sound drivers. Just because you can hear stuff when you installed it doesnt mean it is the best driver for your card. Good place to start is http://www.driverguide.com username drivers password all

I got a 15 fps boost when I found the 'best' driver for my card.

ergRTC · « **Reply #6 on:** May 22, 2002, 09:37:46 AM »

Oh and if it sounds like mud when you are testing your setup in the sound recorder for windows, what do you think it is going to sound like to the others in the game? Remember you can tune to yourself to troubleshoot how crappy you sound before you inflict it on others.

lazs2 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 22, 2002, 10:53:09 AM »

I would like seperate volume controls for squad and everyone else. I have no interest in listening to anyone else other than my squad.
lazs

ergRTC · « **Reply #8 on:** May 22, 2002, 10:56:06 AM »

Hey laz, you can have your whole group just tune 5 to squad.

DES · « **Reply #9 on:** May 22, 2002, 12:53:57 PM »

Tuning channel 5 doesn't eleminate Range channel which is extremly annoying. I can't get RW to work with AHV running (worked perfect before and was much clearer)or I'd use it and turn the AHV volume down.

DES

Kirin · « **Reply #10 on:** May 22, 2002, 06:31:16 PM »

ok - back to the topic...

Mic-Boost has to be fixed! At times I loose boost like every 2 min... very,very annoying - ask my squaddies!! I just couldn't bear it anymore to ALT-TAB every other minute...

... so I am back to RW - still works like a charm and with selfhost (http://www.selfhost.com) you almost have a fixed IP. I would really like to enjoy AHV but at the moment it's unusable for me. And since you cannot turn it off completely it interferes with RW from time to time (skreeeeky sound instead of transmit)

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Using Windows XP - fresh install - newest drivers (well, 29.20 dets, but they change every week or so...) - Soundblaster Live (getting a Santa Cruz soon)

ergRTC · « **Reply #11 on:** May 22, 2002, 06:45:48 PM »

I am curious how many people need mic boost, and why. When I used to use one of the old mics I found boost would just make it sound worse.

For my settings (at least for a usb mic) I put the mic volume at max. Works beautifully. No boost. Modify settings within ah after that.

xp fresh install, c-media 8738/c3dx pci, telex-h381 usb microphone.

Ghosth · « **Reply #12 on:** May 23, 2002, 09:10:46 AM »

Compared with the hassles our squad has been through with RW & other ext comm programs. AH Vox has been a huge blessing.

Yes I'd like to see them keep working on it, refining it, working on better sound quality.

But as it I get along fine with it way more than I
ever did with RW.

Keep em coming HT!

Wilbus · « **Reply #13 on:** May 23, 2002, 09:58:20 AM »

Great sound in AHV most of the time, only thing I have to complain about is the sound volume, if you run sounds on normal (all sounds at 80%) the voice sometimes gets very low (has got to do with many players I guess). Maybe enable us to raise voice volume a bit more?

SKurj · « **Reply #14 on:** May 23, 2002, 01:35:46 PM »

mebbe thats the problem i just have everything else too high...

but i find a VERY wide range of comms volume from different players

I like the sounds in AH.. i don't wanna mute em just for vox +(

mebbe someone needs to invent a sound card that can play AH sounds over 2 channels and vox over the other two separately

SKurj