Which software is best for talking to friends while gaming?

[Ankira]

I play a variety of games on-line with friends. We tend to link up with a voice connection as well. We tend to use Skype at the moment, but it's a bit memory intensive for some.

What do people use while gaming? Any thoughts on what's a good mechanism? I'd be interested to see your thoughts.

Thanks!

 

[Ankira]

Thanks for the idea - I'll take a look at that.

I appreciate the help, thank you.

 

[stemnin]

I use Teamspeak.

http://www.goteamspeak.com/

I have ventrilo, but it was only used in guild wars for gvg, I hate those computer fart sounds.

 

[cafuddled]

A good thing to do if you want to get in to using voice coms with the PC is to, if you have a 3rd party sound card and a second built in soundcard on your motherboard. Use the main soundcard for a 5.1 speaker system (or your preference of speaker configuration) and then use the onboard soundcard linked to a one ear peace headset and bang you have a configuration just as good as Xbox Lives voice com setup.

 

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[pr2thej]

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[Captainhero]

Teamspeak - easy to setup and configure, sound quality can be a bit rubbish at times but generally my preferred voip client.
Ventrillo - a pain to setup and configure if you have never used but good quality.
I also use xfire for my game tracking etc

 

[pr2thej]

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Vent is great, hijacking public servers ftw.

 

[gbh]

Ventrillo was my favorite

 

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[M3d]

Ventrilo or Teamspeak. I tend to like Ventrilo better.

 

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