Virtual servers

[Gwydion]

Absolutely what Dulux-Oz said! I am still using Syrinscape (current version) with the DOE Sound extension and sending the sound to my players through Cleanfeed. Works great for me and being able to have the auto chatsound trigger from FG chat with the DOE Sound extension is still one of my favorite parts of playing online!

[dulux-oz]

Absolutely what Dulux-Oz said! I am still using Syrinscape (current version) with the DOE Sound extension and sending the sound to my players through Cleanfeed. Works great for me and being able to have the auto chatsound trigger from FG chat with the DOE Sound extension is still one of my favorite parts of playing online!

Yeah - but I think you missed the point I was trying to make. The DOE: Sound can (and does) send the "activation signal" from one copy of FG (the GM's) to all of the players' copy's of FG through the web, which is then picked up by each person's computer and passed on to each individual local copy of Syrinscape, meaning you don't have to send sound down Teamspeak or Skype or whatever. That's the reason for the Sound On/Off Option in the FG Options: to stop that signal (once it's arrived at a given player's copy of FG) from going out to the individual computer's operating system when Syrinscape is not installed.

[Gwydion]

You're right. I shouldn't have confused the issue. I do understand that functionality as well. Options, options, options!

[dulux-oz]

Actually, that's one reason why the DOE: Sound moved away from the method described by ProNobis (which was used in DOE: Sound v1) to its current implementation (introduced in v2) - the fact that with the current version of the DOE: Sound we can get sounds playing on other people's computers (with their permission) - with v1 it was only possible to play sounds on our own computer

(So the DOE: Sound is not really obsolete after all, I suppose )

[Gwydion]

(So the DOE: Sound is not really obsolete after all, I suppose )

Now that would be blasphemy! I'm certainly not going away from the DOE: Sound. Can't live without it!

[sirkerry]

ProNobis,

Instead of a virtual server have you considered trying some sort of VDI setup like say Amazon WorkSpaces? Any of the true VDI setups that actually run a workstation version of Windows 10 should allow Voice Meeter Banana to work.

[sstarsslayer]

I have confirmed Fantasy Grounds will run on AWS. Testing it right now.
Fantasy Grounds system requirements list DirectX9.0c You can run DirectX on an EC2 instance, but only if you use a GPU accelerated instance type such as g2.2xlarge
Using an elastic GPU won't work because it would only support openGL and using an instance type with no gpu at all also won't work because it can only run apps that have cpu driven 3D. I don't see any option in Fantasy Grounds to disable hardware acceleration. Ubuntu instances are cheaper than Windows, on EC2, but I'm not sure yet if you can get directx to run in Wine with this type of setup.

[sirkerry]

I have confirmed Fantasy Grounds will run on AWS. Testing it right now.
Fantasy Grounds system requirements list DirectX9.0c You can run DirectX on an EC2 instance, but only if you use a GPU accelerated instance type such as g2.2xlarge
Using an elastic GPU won't work because it would only support openGL and using an instance type with no gpu at all also won't work because it can only run apps that have cpu driven 3D. I don't see any option in Fantasy Grounds to disable hardware acceleration. Ubuntu instances are cheaper than Windows, on EC2, but I'm not sure yet if you can get directx to run in Wine with this type of setup.

Does Voice Meeter Banana work with it?

[sstarsslayer]

Does Voice Meeter Banana work with it?

I don't know that software. I do get audio from the server on my client machine via the RDP protocol.