Team Speak & VOIP simultaneously

[Johny_B_Nasty]

Hello people!

Once I read that a PR player was using both Team Speak (TS) and the BF2-VOIP at the same time. He was claiming that his onboard sound chip was used for one thing and his sound card for the other.

I'm wondering now how's that possible; how can you make both sound processing devices work on one single mother board - without complications??

Even if that was possible how could you explicitlty allocate each device (onboard and sound card) to a particular application - TS and BF2-VOIP?

And even you made it till here, that both applications were running via separate hardware, how would your interface handle it??
Where would you plug in the cables, into the MoBo or the sound card??
By interface I mean that you normally use a single headset (mic + speakers).

If all this wouldn't work and I would be going on to use only the sound card, has anybody got a clue whether my sound card could handle both applications simultaneously?

If anybody's got an idea I'd appreciate that very much.

My gear is the following:

Motherboard
ASRock 939NF6G-VSTA ; 7.1 CH Windows® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio (ALC888 Audio Codec)

Sound card
Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeMusic

[.blend]

If i have TS and BF running and i press B to talk to my squad, the ppl in TS also hear me. But using both simutaneously is a bad idea, as most VOIP users are often pretty silent whilst the m8s in ts come over loud and clear

[Johny_B_Nasty]

.blend, if I understand you correctly, you do use TS and VOIP simultaneously with one single sound card in your system?

And your sound card does handle it smoothly?

[SnipingCoward]

Originally Posted by Johny_B_Nasty

And your sound card does handle it smoothly?

even my crappy onboard sound chip can handle this - so why shouldn't ur xfi? - yes works great

how can you make both sound processing devices work on one single mother board - without complications??

thats fairly good question since soundcards often bring their own software but - when in windows you can only have one active sound device (imo) - the other one is present but is not used

Even if that was possible how could you explicitlty allocate each device (onboard and sound card) to a particular application

u can tell teamspeak to use a particular sound adapter:
Settings -> Options -> Sound Devices tab -> Devices area (input/output seperately selectable)

to have bf2 use the other sound device you just need to activate it in (Windows') Sounds and Audio devices -> Audio
chose from the drop down lists of Soundoutput and Soundinput

thats how it theoretically should work imo - but never tried it - because the issue with the interfaces i couldn't solve either