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Title: No Vox
Post by: Geeb 2 on July 19, 2006, 11:14:21 AM

For some reason I have all the sounds, Eng. Guns. etc. but I still cant hear anyone on vox even when i tune to the mission chan. Is this because I am behind a firewall, TCP? It doesent bother me too much. But it would make it eazier for the mission leaders to give instructions. It is also blisfuly silent:cool:

Title: No Vox
Post by: Geeb 2 on August 04, 2006, 10:00:18 PM

punt

Title: No Vox
Post by: FBplmmr on August 05, 2006, 07:25:48 AM

http://www.hitechcreations.com/ahhelp/images/voice.gif


mic voulume and play volume are pretty obvious
 but th e "effect volume" lowers the sound of the aircraft engine  etc when someone is talking on the vox channel.. so you can hear.(left makes engine quieter)
dont know if this is your problem ..but its a place to start eh?:aok


(http://www.hitechcreations.com/ahhelp/images/voice.gif)

Title: No Vox
Post by: GunnerCAF on August 05, 2006, 11:32:18 AM

Under 'Game Sounds', you can set the volume of each sound.  You can just turn down the engine sound if this is what is making it hard to hear VOX.  It's also handy to adjust other sounds, like "check 6" so you don't jump out of your chair when it goes off :)

Gunner

Title: No Vox
Post by: Geeb 2 on August 05, 2006, 11:41:59 AM

thanx for the suggestions.
I should mabe clear this up when I first log on sometimes i will hear vox for 3sec then poof silent.
 I have a hardware firewall that is a brute to configure. hence I am always udp lost switching tcp, other than that con is good no warps some stutters wen in big fight.

Title: No Vox
Post by: OOZ662 on August 05, 2006, 12:26:15 PM

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
FIREWALLS and PERSONAL ROUTERS

This is a can of worms. Aces High depends on ports 2000-5000. They all need to be opened through your firewall. Aces High will not use all these ports simultaneously, but some subset of the above port range will be used.

Also note, when we release an update to the game, you will have to re-allow the aceshigh.exe program back through your personal firewall. Nothing we can do about this as it is a function of the firewall software you are using.

Personal routers: These types of routers (LinkSys, NetGear...) are very slow devices which really cannot handle a lot of traffic from several systems at the same time. Typically, you should restrict your local LAN to 5 systems or less.
Here are some tips:

1) Make sure you have MAC broadcasting enabled in your router. This keeps your ISP from having to rediscover your Ethernet MAC address. If you do not have this enabled, and your ISP's router has to go through discovery you will get switched from UDP to TCP/IP by Aces High due to lost packets.

2) If you are on a network with a dynamic IP and the ISP expires the lease forcing your router to get a new IP address, you will again be switched to TCP/IP from UDP by Aces High due to lost packets and you will probably lose your connection to the servers.

3) If your router or cable/dsl modem is connected to your computer through a USB port, you can expect to lose UDP a lot, as well as unreliable connections to the servers overall. You should have this device connected to an Ethernet port or unreliability will result.

If you have NAT enabled on your router, UDP may not work at all, as there are problems with some versions of firmware in routers that keep them from handling UDP in the translation tables, and this becomes worse with more computers on your LAN.