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sv_use_steam_voice 0?

by ciaphas » Tue May 29, 2012 1:09 am

Hey all. Was playing on Westbox much of this weekend, and haven't been able to talk on voice without either A) sounding terrible or B) blackholing everyone else's audio completely. I did some diagnosis and found out it's because sv_use_steam_voice is set to 0 in the server config.

As far as I can tell, leaving it at 0 only serves the purpose of allowing HLSS micspam, while killing the mics of several users. Was it your intent to leave this at 0 to allow for HLSS?
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Re: sv_use_steam_voice 0?

by fingerman » Tue May 29, 2012 6:02 am

My mic has worked well since 2007.
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Re: sv_use_steam_voice 0?

by MamaWeegee » Tue May 29, 2012 9:47 am

fingerman wrote:My mic has worked well since 2007.


Mine has since when i got it :O
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Re: sv_use_steam_voice 0?

by Failhorse » Tue May 29, 2012 10:36 am

This isn't for HLDJ. And if your microphone worked before Valve changed the codec, I suggest you check your printer cable.


sv_use_steam_voice 0 = Low quality, small performance overhead, high compatibility.
sv_use_steam_voice 1 = High quality, large performance overhead, medium/low compatibility.
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Re: sv_use_steam_voice 0?

by ciaphas » Tue May 29, 2012 12:11 pm

Didn't know there was much in the way of other differences, thanks. Rather ironic that sv_use_steam_voice 0 is 'high' compatibility when it definitely breaks my mic, though (I just tested on a quick local server) Wish I knew WHY it breaks, but it's very consistent.

Does anyone know anything about what underlying codecs the two options use?
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Re: sv_use_steam_voice 0?

by rabi » Thu Dec 05, 2013 1:25 am

The CSN TF2 servers are great, have a good community and westbox has a low ping to my location, but there is a small problem. I'm running linux, and the native platform only supports steam's "new" voice codec. This is a problem since all the CSN servers I've checked are running with cvar sv_use_steam_voice set to 0. While this topic has been discussed before the relevance of the thread is not in this context.
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Re: sv_use_steam_voice 0?

by Nathan173AB » Mon Aug 11, 2014 8:57 pm

rabi wrote:The CSN TF2 servers are great, have a good community and westbox has a low ping to my location, but there is a small problem. I'm running linux, and the native platform only supports steam's "new" voice codec. This is a problem since all the CSN servers I've checked are running with cvar sv_use_steam_voice set to 0. While this topic has been discussed before the relevance of the thread is not in this context.

I also use Linux. Could this be why I'm unable to voice chat in CSN servers but I can in other servers? It's frustrating sometimes not being able to talk in them. :-(
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Re: sv_use_steam_voice 0?

by Nathan173AB » Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:58 pm

Will there be any consideration of this issue again? From what information I can find, people who have trouble talking in servers with sv_use_steam_voice set to 1 should be able to easily fix the issue by setting up their mic properly with Steam voice chat, which is a lot more straightforward than what us Linux and Mac users would have to do to be able to talk while it's set to 0.

Please reconsider.
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Re: sv_use_steam_voice 0?

by fingerman » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:03 pm

I will change it and we can test it.
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Re: sv_use_steam_voice 0?

by Nathan173AB » Thu Mar 26, 2015 2:16 pm

Thanks for this! :D I hope it works out well.
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