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El-Gorko
20 Aug : 21:22
Yeah, I'm always on vent while I'm gaming.

Akira
20 Aug : 15:28
I will look for you on steam tonight. Are you also on vent?

El-Gorko
20 Aug : 15:12
I'm online just about every night with my buddies. We tend to start between 8-10pm Pacific and go until 11-12pm. That may be a bit late for you, but let me know your schedule.

Akira
20 Aug : 14:47
So when we going to get online and game? I have almost finished the single player.

El-Gorko
07 Aug : 18:17
And with StarCraft, its the multiplayer where it really shines.

El-Gorko
07 Aug : 18:16
I'm pretty interested, but I think I've got plans all weekend.

Akira
05 Aug : 12:52
I picked it up yesterday and it is like some of my other games. I play DoW and Homeworld2. It's not bad I do like a story line game.

VT_NERD
04 Aug : 21:35
Anyone dying to test SW:ToR?

I got an invitation to test this weekend, but I'm going to be at the beach so I won't be able to participate.

VT_NERD
04 Aug : 14:22
SC isn't really my cup of tea. I'll pick it up eventually as it's bound to be a classic, but only after it drops down to a normal price.

Akira
03 Aug : 11:07
I think I will pick up the original one also and start it.

El-Gorko
02 Aug : 23:48
It's good stuff. I loved the original and have been playing the new one a bit.

Akira
02 Aug : 20:18
I was thinking about it. Although I have never played the first StarCraft.

El-Gorko
01 Aug : 13:44
Anyone planning to pick up StarCraft II? It plays similar, though more difficult, than the first.

El-Gorko
12 Jun : 10:18
I now live in the great state of California again!

El-Gorko
06 May : 13:05
I'm going to a chiropractor now and things seem to be slowly getting better. I should be on a little bit tonight and probably over the weekend.

Akira
02 May : 21:02
Well take it easy and get better. Hope things get better soon.

El-Gorko
01 May : 20:18
I probably wont be on much the next few days. I threw my back out on 4/26 and it's still all jacked up. Sitting in a chair is kinda painful at the moment...

El-Gorko
22 Apr : 18:19
Submitted draft one of my MS thesis today! Feels pretty good to have that monkey off my back.

Akira
13 Apr : 15:50
No problem we will see you when you can get on. Better to make sure your work is done before gaming.

El-Gorko
12 Apr : 22:03
Just thought I'd let you all know I probably won't be on much the next 2-3 weeks. I'm in the process of finishing my thesis and have had to crunch a bunch of simulations on my desktop since they are too slow on my laptop and won't run properly on my lab's computers.

My laptop also isn't the greatest gaming machine... I may have an hour or two free at night, between simulations that I can use to game, but we'll see.

SONIC
02 Apr : 17:15
Okay, I've got my Inet woes resolved... I was having extreme packet loss. I rewired my local network and moved the router away from the phone(!) and now I'm scoring "A" at PingTest.net and 50% above average at SpeedTest.net. Woo-Hoo! I've been getting totally pwned in game because of all the warping... my stats are crap.

SONIC
26 Mar : 12:48
I had an ear ache last night and didn't want to put a headset on.

Akira
26 Mar : 12:42
You should have jumped on vent so we could chat while playing. Would have been like old times.

SONIC
25 Mar : 18:10
I joined the 21CW tourney since they've moved to BC2. I'll be playing with them on the weekends.

SONIC
25 Mar : 17:45
I played my first rounds of MP today and it was very fun! I don't care for HC mode since I don't know the maps, but the Normal config seems pretty well balanced.


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Ventrilo Volume Normalization
Moderators: Akira, El-Gorko, VT_NERD, SONIC
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El-Gorko
Fri Jan 02 2009, 12:00PM


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Joined: Wed Jan 09 2008, 12:05AM
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I'm lifting this from a site that apparently lifted it from another. Basically it makes it so everyone is the same volume, you don't have to tweak each person individually:


I'm lifting this verbatim from my Warhammer guild's forum:


Ghrock wrote:

Vent Normalization makes everyone's voice the exact same volume. In essence, you won't blow your ears out or have difficulty hearing people.

Here's how:
Go to Setup
Enable Direct Sound
Select the SFX Button
Select Compressor and click Add.
Under Compressor Properties use the following settings
Gain = Adjust for how loud you want people to be. (Try 15)
Attack = 0.01
Release = Around 500
Threshold = Around -30
Ratio = 100
Pre delay = 4.0

What the settings do:

Gain: How much volume you feed into the compressor. Not really relevant unless everyone is too quiet, then you can turn this up a little; turning it up too much will sound EXTREMELY bad.

Attack: How fast volume change will happen. Example: setting this to 500 means that anything coming in will only be dropped in volume after a half a second. For vent this should be set as low as possible.

Release: How fast the compressor stops changing things. Not really that relevant with vent, setting it around 500 is good for voice material.

Threshold: This sets the point where we actually start changing what’s coming in. Whereas 0 is the absolute loudest you can have for an input, -60 is super quiet. Average users will probably come in somewhere around -25 to -15, with the occasional few being really quiet, which is why I have this set so low.

Ratio: How much any sound below the set threshold gets compressed and/or modified in the volume department. If you still want to hear SOME volume variation then set this lower (2-4). The higher you set it the closer in volume everyone will be.

Pre delay: Mostly just deals with processing; with computer and digital processors they can look ahead a few milliseconds to see what needs to be dropped in volume or changed before it actually comes through the speakers. Highest is ideal.


So far this has made a world of difference for me.

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