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Voice chat over internet while gaming?
Jan. 21st, 2010 10:23 amOkay - so, Pat and I were hoping to do some computer gaming, and we have two choices.
1) in-game chat - unfortunately, that sucks. Diablo II handled it better. So did Sacred, IIRC.
2) Phone chat - not bad, but at 5 cents a minute it'll add up if we want to play a long game.
If only there was some magical wellspring of data transportation, a set of tubes connecting people together, some great and grand, let's call it "internetworking", that would allow us to send and receive information, and then, some way of translating voice into data that... wait!
Okay - enough intertubes jokes. Does anyone know of a good voice chat program that works well with computer games? Computing power shouldn't be an issue; both Pat and I have good computers. But anything that slows down the networked game *can* be an issue, because we're 200 miles apart, and we don't want to spend all of our time discussing how we just died due to lag, again.
1) in-game chat - unfortunately, that sucks. Diablo II handled it better. So did Sacred, IIRC.
2) Phone chat - not bad, but at 5 cents a minute it'll add up if we want to play a long game.
If only there was some magical wellspring of data transportation, a set of tubes connecting people together, some great and grand, let's call it "internetworking", that would allow us to send and receive information, and then, some way of translating voice into data that... wait!
Okay - enough intertubes jokes. Does anyone know of a good voice chat program that works well with computer games? Computing power shouldn't be an issue; both Pat and I have good computers. But anything that slows down the networked game *can* be an issue, because we're 200 miles apart, and we don't want to spend all of our time discussing how we just died due to lag, again.
