I believe that Ventrillo wins the award for the least laggy solution, but I haven't used it for a while. Many people use TeamSpeak happily, I find it laggy.
Yeah, i occasionally jump on a TS when racing.. Mind you it often gets a little hard to hear someone when you're racing.
And it's often a bit uncomfortable reaching for that 'push to talk' button in the middle of a corner or something :P I don't really like having the auto-mic thingy on.
We use a ventrilo 2.1.4 version. Unlimited users (mostly over 50 in our voice chat playing WoW and LFS) and a very much better sound quality then "TeamSqueek".
We use ts everytime we race in 4ignition...great fun to hear each other while racing..i don't care about quality...it eats only 2kb of up stream and is almost invisible for the system.
We have our own TS server running and use it on a daily basis
cant really relate to poor quality or lag for that matter...seems to be running nicely imo...either way...its a nice tool to use whenever you play any kind of online games
Aces High (combat flight simulator) has 'teamspeak' embedded right into teh game. It works out really well. It would be a nice feature to have in LFS and would be a key diferentiator. Just to be able to tell a lapped car that you are passing underneath them would be a huge help.
CoRe Racing has its own 24-slot Ventrilo 2.3.0 server (at a mere $5 per month). Low lag, and clear as a telephone. Its great to be able to talk while online. Most people usually are quiet during races, but once they are over, the smack talking commences.
My WoW guild used TS extensively for 40-man raids and just BSing and such. It always ran without a hitch and I was even able to run WoW and TS on dial-up. I have no experience with Vent.
I'm always on TS. Period. Me clans like my second family *the crows says awwwwwwwww*
Hardly use vent, when i did use it, it took me about 20 minutes to set-up and i've been told it uses up more of your bandwidth than TS? (please tell me if i am wrong)
TeamSpeak is very nice prog, though its way too big and causes substantial lag in previous times within several games.
Mostly it was used in shooters and I think it has some function there, however not in racing games / sims etc.
Within racing games it's used mostly in a negative way witch I don't like .
Let me explain this
Player A joins, some time later player B joins, then suddenly player a or b write : TS ? Funny is that both players are team members, same nick colors etc.
Then a race start. And every time again it's very interesting to experience the way those team members with TS are behaving...
1 of them has a good start and number 2 is blocking all other racers so that number 1 can go. Did'nt we see that some time ago in Formula 1 also ? very good concept. "Go Schumi, I, Massa, block Alsonso, gogogo "
Imo, speaking prg's can be very usefull but not in LFS, tell me the real function. Btw Roger Wilco is much smaller and better too
so as I'm totally new to this can someone tell me if I can run this on a personal LFS game between a friend and myself? Whats needed to use it?
Was thinking of trying skype but concerned about bandwidth with it while playing the game. Just looking for a way to chat to a friend while we screw around in a 2 man race (maybe a few others here and there as well....)