UKGTR - new server/teamspeak test - Apr 27

[Truetom]

Is there any particular reason for using TS, Dave? I'm not an expert but as far as I used TS and Ventrilo in BF2 I find Ventrilo better. Also Legends Racing team tried both and I must say I get the impression Ventrilo had a better quality. Mostly it was different while driving - in TS I couldn't hear anything on track, just the whining of the engine and not hearing words very well, while in Ventrilo I heard all members clearly, either on track or in garages. 

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[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Is there any particular reason for using TS, Dave? I'm not an expert but as far as I used TS and Ventrilo in BF2 I find Ventrilo better. Also Legends Racing team tried both and I must say I get the impression Ventrilo had a better quality. Mostly it was different while driving - in TS I couldn't hear anything on track, just the whining of the engine and not hearing words very well, while in Ventrilo I heard all members clearly, either on track or in garages. 

If you use the right codec in TS (I've set the default on our server appropriately) the quality is a lot better. The main problem with Ventrilo is that a server which supports more than 16 users costs real money.

[popabawa]

If you haven't used Teamspeak or Ventrilo before you might find this little application useful;
http://www.voice-overlay.info.ms/

It overlays some useful info. onto DirectX games so you can see who's in your channel, who's speaking etc. 

[Kerr]

Decided 100% maserati for this one. Practicing this morning I now have a good set up.Although it hates wheels on the kerbs and I can't launch from standing start too well.

Altered Lambo set up and it's still the quicker car with me driving, but happy to see both cars quicker than my last race here,

Looking forward to the race on Sunday when I get back for St Andrews.

Enjoy your weekend

[Jeffrey]

I also prefer Ventrillo, also because you cna assign a button on your wheel much more easily.

For tonight I'm still doubting what to take, F575, Viper or Lister.

[Joss]

Anyone know how to use teamspeak? I've also never managed to map a button off my G25 to  a keyboard button...so to speak I'd have to hit a keybpard button and that'd suck

Don't care about cars, I'll pick something on a whim.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

The next version of TeamSpeak will support mapping of game controller buttons (and also those of the mouse). In the meantime, if you can't or don't want to map a wheel button, if your keyboard is handy you can use an otherwise unused key for it, eg. right control.

[Simon Gymer]

I have CTRL mapped to the CIRCLE button on my Logitech DFP. I press this to TALK on TeamSpeak. The only way I've found to map the CTRL (in my case Left Ctrl) to TeamSpeak is to only have 1 profile in the Logitech Wingman Profiler and make it the default profile. So basically I have one Wingman Profile that applies to all games. Which is fine cause I use the wheel for GTR/GTL/rFactor and they all have the same settings and mappings for me. I think using a normal key (F or G or something rather than CTRL) works normally with multiple profiles but I don't like that cause I can't chat on the chat window and press button for TeamSpeak at the same time so I get letters in the chat. CTRL doesn't register in chat which is why I use that one.

[Simon Gymer]

For tonight I'm still doubting what to take, F575, Viper or Lister.

Nissan 350Z for me I think. 

[Reign Man]

My mic is not working so it's not worth me turning up....

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

My mic is not working so it's not worth me turning up....

Please do - this is as much about testing the new server under a decent load as it is about TeamSpeak.

[Iain]

Will join. Has TS details been posted yet? 

Not yet - with one thing and another I've just not had time to sit down and work out exactly what I want to do, and then write a description of it. Hopefully tonight - if not we'll have a free for all tomorrow night.

you could try to get everyone to set themselves as 'channel commanders' and set a bind to whisper to them

but channels dont change that much do they ? :|

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Just restarted the server - it's public as we're trying to get a good number of players on.

[Aagramn]

That was fun. I got a clean start, and managed to stay in touch with the front cars for longer than I expected. Nice pile-up after the finishing line, I've never seen so many bits of car on the track.  

Server was rock solid, but we didn't exactly load it. Couldn't get my mic to work, but I could hear much more of what people were saying on teamspeak over my engine than the last time I tried it.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

The server seemed stable with the exception of Nev who was freezing every 30 seconds or so for a few seconds at a time.

TeamSpeak was a bit frustrating; I don't think a fixed channel list to whipser to is a good solution for our "broadcast to all" problem; possibly if everyone sets up that and also a 'whisper to channel commanders' it might be viable.