Best Voice Chat Software For Gaming?

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday July 2, 2003 @03:15PM from the lima-foxtrot-lollipop dept.

a-freeman writes "I frequently play Everquest and Quake III with some close friends that (now) live far away, and we've been looking for a solid voice-chat package to encourage trash-talking and taunting during our raid/frag sessions. We have variously tried Roger Wilco, TeamSound, TeamTalk, and Microsoft's Sidewinder GameVoice, and all of them have various limitations. TeamTalk has the best latency and sound quality but poor compatibility, TeamSound has terrible latency and requires lots of firewall holes, GameVoice requires a .net passport and Windows Messenger, and Roger Wilco is horribly unstable. This is a fairly simple problem, and I refuse to believe that these are the best-of-breed solutions. Can anyone recommend a solution that they are pleased with?"

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Best in-game Voice? Xbox Live. by SuperRob · 2003-07-02 17:41 · Score: 3, Interesting

Get Xbox Live.

No, seriously ... since the entire service was designed around voice communications to begin with, it works REMARKABLY well.
Re:Heres a second.. by wossName · 2003-07-02 20:05 · Score: 3, Interesting

What fiasco was that ? All I can remember is that the release candidates for version 2 have/had a limited life span, which is widely known (FYI: it's still in RC status). No problem if you can read instructions.

As a PC gamer, you're used to patching and upgrading all the time, so what's the problem with updating one more piece of software ?

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