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**Flak** · 10-09-2005, 09:04 PM

Skype lags me horribly, and I really don't like the interface at all. Why not try Teamspeak or Ventrillo?

**legacy-Sphinx** · 10-09-2005, 09:14 PM

i absolutely LOVE skype, if i play pub im on it with friends that are still in holland quite often (as you couldve seen in another topic i just emigrated to sweden)

It doesnt lag me, and doesnt crash me in ut1 here.

When i used it at home on my pc, it didnt lag me and it didnt crash ut1 nor ut2k4.

the quality is SO much better than ts and ventrillo (when its a 1on1 conversations, for clantalks its not suited)

**legacy-Robmonster** · 10-09-2005, 09:21 PM

Quality is much better with Skype!

**legacy-Eclipse** · 10-09-2005, 09:32 PM

Yup been using Skype for a long time now, it rocks.

On topic: Doesn't seem to be related to Skype, unless it happens over and over again.

**Spaz** · 10-09-2005, 09:43 PM

If you start a dedicated server then use VOIP it might work better for you. If your system can handle having both the server and the game running at the same time that is.

**2th** · 10-09-2005, 10:40 PM

skype is only cool for me cause i have a buddy who is doing a semster in holland. he uses skype to talk to his parents here in the states and me and other friends. however when i game... i find Ventrilo > TeamSpeak

**Ickle** · 10-09-2005, 11:45 PM

Googletalk sounds pretty good when it's just two people. Was testing it today.

**legacy-Juggalo_Kyle** · 10-10-2005, 01:30 AM

When i used to talk to my friend )o(Freekill on Skype, we did have a few 1on1 matches while chatting.

**legacy-Eclipse** · 10-10-2005, 05:43 AM

Originally posted by Juggalo_Kyle
When i used to talk to my friend )o(Freekill on Skype, we did have a few 1on1 matches while chatting.

Ah so the guy that you fragged in the other thread was a friend of yours.. Did you record his response over the mic? xD

**legacy-Juggalo_Kyle** · 10-10-2005, 05:48 AM

No i didnt, however, we were on skype when we played that match.

And yeah, he is a good friend of mine. Met him 2 years ago in Science class during HS.

**legacy-Robmonster** · 10-10-2005, 12:43 PM

Ah, so I'm not the first to try it! I think my brother must have a driver problem as the Skype + Game combination worked perfectly in Counterstrike Source.

Looking at a bandwidth monitor tells me that a Skype chat only takes 3-4k/s so I dont think it will cause much lag, especially as my upstream is 25 k/s

I think I'll make another thread to look for some 1 v 1 players.

RM

$legacy-KhAD/\FFi$ · 10-10-2005, 02:26 PM

I rather use Gizmo.
Skype allows you to conference call with only 5 people. Imagine you are the host you add 4 more people and someone disconnects accidentely. He needs to call u back and added to the conference call again. This sucks during a game.

Now Gizmo allows u to call a number wich start with 1-222-xxx-xxxx. Just let your teammates dial that number and they connect to a server hosted somewhere.
Gizmo also less lag and sound is a lot better than Skype. Some nice features like recording the calls, IM, maps to check out where your friends calling from and more.

www.gizmoproject.com

**legacy-Robmonster** · 10-10-2005, 02:28 PM

I just set my Skype to auto-answer while playing. No-one else ever calls me anyway

**koopa** · 10-11-2005, 05:47 PM

Not that this helps, but I use it a lot with UT and I've never had a problem with it. Maybe hardware/software audio makes a difference?

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