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    Ventrilo and the Alienware R3(?)

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by rdjntx, Jul 18, 2011.

  1. rdjntx

    rdjntx Newbie

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    ok I bought my girl a new alienware M17X back in april (May delivery) and so far it has performed well. She recently began having issues with Ventrilo however. haven't been able to find much on it so am posting on here and on the vent forums to see if I can get a little help since her set-up is quite different than mine (M17x R1). we both are running Windows7 here - home premium me - ultimate.

    On to the specifics. she sounded like she was in a cave and I could hear the room noise (tv and such) as well. We figured out that she was set to use the built in microphone array instead of her headset microphone.

    Now however she sounds muffled and there is some static (think the sound a TV makes when not on a channel) we are both using the same logitech headsets and have vent set to use "default Directsound device" I come through clear but she doesn't and our vent setups are the same. any ideas ?
     
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  2. NiteSkie

    NiteSkie Notebook Enthusiast

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    Try her Headset on your working computer. That would be the first thing to do. Does it work there?
     
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  3. rdjntx

    rdjntx Newbie

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    would love to do that but .. well I am in Iraq (contractor) she is in texas ... LOL which makes it kinda hard with a 2-3 week turn around. I should also not the she went out and bought a new set with the same results
     
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    un1b4ll Notebook Guru

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    just have her change her input device to whatever isn't currently selected. If they're USB I'm not sure what they'll be called, if it was a 3.5mm aux headphone jack, it'd be called IDT input device, or something along those lines.
     
    un1b4ll, Jul 18, 2011
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