w 1.09 vehicle voip problem?

[Magnum50]

Was wondering... over on SimHQ's server w/ the beta patch...players are reporting that voip works until they get into a vehicle, then only some can hear, even if in same vehicle, and even when they exit the vehicle... so then they exit the game, come back in and works again, till they get in another vehicle....

can u guys confirm this on your server?
thx

[loyalguard]

We did notice some inconsistencies last night Mag, I was on for about 3 hours and VOIP would come in and out. Funny though, I noticed that we could hear better while IN a vehicle and only after getting out did it drop off.

[Brennus]

Originally Posted by loyalguard

We did notice some inconsistencies last night Mag, I was on for about 3 hours and VOIP would come in and out. Funny though, I noticed that we could hear better while IN a vehicle and only after getting out did it drop off.

That's exactly what happened. We (SimHQ) noticed that, once you exited the vehicle, some people would lose VoN, and some wouldn't. While only some people could hear person A, and not person B, person B could hear person A just fine. Exiting ArmA, and then reconnecting was the only way to fix it...

Very strange behavior, but I guess that's why it's called a BETA...

[loyalguard]

Gotcha...Are you going to report it at BIS, if not, I am happy to write something up or confirm the report if already there.

[Magnum50]

well i think both can report there findings to BIS so they know it's universal, and i think Dslyecxi is also gather information to report, since he's already been working with v1.09 beta for a while and has a relationship with BIS.

thx

[Taxi]

Yes, I had some problems with VOIP as well. In retrospect it could very well been related with the vehicles. Some people I could talk with, while with other I could not, but you would see there mouth move. Also some could hear me and others not.

BTW, I would stress the advantage of setting up keys to talk to each channel (direct, group, side etc.) instead of switching between channels and then talk, for me that's way too confusing in the heat of battle.

[mingmong]

If people can post specific details with regards to their hardware settings (EAX turned on/off, volume sliders, mic boost etc) and repro steps if you have them, it would be much appreciated. I'll try and test this out tonight.

I know that sometimes one person can have difficulty hearing another person who can be heard fine by everyone else, and there's been a mildly high chance of that occuring (5%?) but all bug reports with regards to voip will undoubtably be hugely appreciated, and either giving them to me to pass on to dslyecxi, or to dslyecxi himself, is the only way we're going to get a kickass patch out of this.

[Taxi]

Originally Posted by mingmong

If people can post specific details with regards to their hardware settings (EAX turned on/off, volume sliders, mic boost etc) and repro steps if you have them, it would be much appreciated. I'll try and test this out tonight.

I know that sometimes one person can have difficulty hearing another person who can be heard fine by everyone else, and there's been a mildly high chance of that occuring (5%?) but all bug reports with regards to voip will undoubtably be hugely appreciated, and either giving them to me to pass on to dslyecxi, or to dslyecxi himself, is the only way we're going to get a kickass patch out of this.

We had some problems yesterday, which I'm pretty sure, were not related to vehicles. In a certain mission no vehicles were involved and still we had a problem with people not hearing a person while others did hear that person. The day before Satmax I think and me had problems as well we tried with EAX and without but it made no difference. My soundcard software does have a mic boost function enabled, but I didn't have a problem yesterday.

The problems seems to be pretty random, for instance yesterday I was translating for one person while he couldn't hear another person, while the day before I was the one who was having VON problems. I do have the impression that the problem is persistence over missions. So it seemed if there was a VON problem between 2 people in one mission it would still be there in the next.

I'm sorry that I can't pin point the problems more, like I said it seems to be pretty random.

[Boot]

Last night we had a 3-person mission and at start could hear each other, but only in group channel. There were no vehicles involved, but the issues cropped up when we dropped and reconnected to take over AI. I could see one man's mouth moving but not hear anything from him.

I run a Asus Nvidia/Conroe setup, Win XP, Creative X-Fi. Sliders have effects and voice at 7.0, Hardware Accel and EAX are both on.

The mission was Fools for Fuel, in case that matters.

[Delta]

VOIP is always painful for me. Always. Constantly comes in as just white noise.

[Dslyecxi]

Originally Posted by Delta

VOIP is always painful for me. Always. Constantly comes in as just white noise.

What sound card do you have? Drivers? (etc)

[ednos]

Originally Posted by Delta

VOIP is always painful for me. Always. Constantly comes in as just white noise.

Delta, the problem you're having is most likely with Teamspeak, not the VOIP. I recall your inability to use CS:S and Teamspeak at the same time, so my guess is that your hardware is at fault here, not BIS.