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Best voice chat software for MMORPG? Ventrilo or Xfire?
anthrax90
Member Posts: 9
Hi everyone, i just wanted to hear a few opinons on which voice chat software you would recommend for use with MMORPG game, namely Cabal online. Im looking for the software with the lightest CPU usage, lightest bandwith usage and good quality. Overally the one which gives the best gaming experience. Ive narrowed it down to 2 at the moment: ventrilo and xfire, but you could add another one if you think it's better. Maybe pros and cons of each software? thnx for yr help
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Less lag, and it's always easy and good.
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That depends on what you can pay. If you have interests in buying a voice communication server, I can suggest to use ventrilo. If not, you can just stick with Xfire.
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Teamspeak is a far better program than xfire voice chat or ventrilo. With ventrilo, if you try to talk at the same time as someone else, you get horrid feedback in your speakers. Xfire is good but it isn't practical for a clan or guild to use. My clan, the Sith Commandos, has been using teamspeak for almost 3 years now, and have no trouble with it. It is a little expensive, but it is worth the money if you wish to communicate with more than a few other people. It doesn't distort peoples' voices too badly, and although it doesn't sound as "real life" as ventrilo, it is more user friendly, with a better interface that is much more developed and less raw, than vent
Otherwise, the sound quality of Vent is miles ahead of TS2, takes up less memory, and in general - a much more streamlined program. It does what it's supposed to do, and does not need to cater to be more user friendly.
I haven't tried X-fire.
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The sound quality is higher on Teampseak and higher still on Ventrilo.
Ventrilo has more compatability issues. A higher % of your mates will be unable to use it because of hardware related technical issues.
I use Teamspeak because it is free and easy.
As others have said Ventrillo is the best for a group play such as Guild Wars or W.O.W. But for one on one you should get xfire or be like me and have both plus 1023458239629374521345 other chat things because people are to lazy to make a good universal chat system.
Both Vent and TS are excellent if you set them up properly.
If you're only going up to 4 people, you could also consider Skype.
I haven't tried the xfire voice chat yet.
I have to agree. The rather small improvement you get using Vent on voice "sound" isn't worth the cost over FREE of TeamSpeak.
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and we all agree that TS has the best sound quality. This has also been discussed on different forums
where people claim Ventrilo to sound better but when it comes down to testing / proof TS always seems
to be the champ.
I USE TS because well its sounds 10000% times better but vent is nice for 2 things a shot load of people (because the mute, etc. features work well), and 2 it is easy to run.
I use TS because i rarely need more than 12 people and only friends use it.
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