What Voice Clients do you use?

**computertrucker** · April 25th, 2011, 13:09

Just curious to see what all voice Clients people are using to run their games. Or if they use voice clients at all??

I have been running my current game now since the end of Feb, We had had 8 sessions so far, At first we were using Ventrillo but since decided we didnt really want to pay for voice so now we all are using Skype. Which actually has much clearer and superior audio over vent..and its free.

Its like being a on a party line on a phone. Unlike Vent which if someone keys up to talk it completely walks all over the person how might currently be talking.

So what Voice Client are you guys using?

**Leonal** · April 25th, 2011, 13:43

Skype only. Most of the times it works extremely well, and have only had a few minor bad experiences due to a player having poor bandwidth.

Tried out GSC, but the audio was so bad for some and it didn't work well with voice activated microphone. Also we dislike push to talk.

**mr_h** · April 25th, 2011, 14:34

In games I've played, I've used Ventrillo. In games I've GM'd, I've used Mumble.
Both are good, I like Mumble because its full featured and free.

**CAPryde** · April 25th, 2011, 15:17

I had the opposite experience in my games. I started out using Skype, but it seemed like players with connection issues were a constant problem. I switched to Ventrilo, hosting my own server (as long as you stay at 8 or fewer users, the server program is free), and that has worked quite well.

**Andugus** · April 25th, 2011, 16:07

Ventrilo server run from home allows up to 8 to connect for free. I find it to be the most stable. Skype doesn't even run on my Windows client anymore, something broke in the registry.

**Valarian** · April 25th, 2011, 17:40

Never used a voice client in games. Keep meaning to give it a try for OOC chat but never have got around to it.

**VenomousFiligree** · April 25th, 2011, 17:48

Skype when I (rarely) use it.

**Doswelk** · April 25th, 2011, 19:15

Mumble, use it for all out games.

**Zeus** · April 25th, 2011, 20:37

Skype for straight up VoIP OOC, Mumble if I also want to mix in background music or ambient sound effects.

**Moon Wizard** · April 25th, 2011, 20:41

I found Skype bandwidth issues originally when I looked into this 5 years ago. Bandwidth might be better, but Ventrilo is such low bandwidth overhead and we use for MMO games too.

JPG

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