Mumble Vs. Vent and thoughts

[JoshGuru7]

Mumble is way better than Ventrilo IMO. The latency differences are significant and easily noticeable for my usage habits (MMO raiding, FPS multiplayer, 4X Strategy). I still have a vent server for my LOTRO guild, but everything else has migrated to mumble.

 

[Dankk]

*Overlay can be nice, but it is a DEFINITE toll on your PC's resources

Although I love Mumble, I can't comment on the overlay because I actually don't use it (it's distracting on my screen, and I don't feel like I need it for BC2). I dunno, I could probably run it fine because of my specs though. *shrug*

 

[blamb425]

The difference isn't mind-bogglingly incredible, but I run WoW at 1650x1080 with basically max settings while FRAPSing, and with the overlay, I definitely notice a bit more of a choppiness.

 

[Moonzi]

the bandwidth, latency and price is pretty noticeable though to me.

 

[Pantlegz]

I think mumble is much better than vent. My guild started using it a few months ago, don't miss vent at all. The only thing I don't like is I don't have the ability to turn people up and down, sometimes people are still way too loud and others I can barely hear.

 

[Chaotic42]

Mumble is way better than Vent. It's faster and it sounds better. There's almost no latency. I'm a huge fan. Servers are cheap, too.

 

[novasatori]

I used a new one recently that is even better than mumble, called Shockvoice.

I still prefer Mumble though, and I imagine it wont be long before mumble replaces vent everywhere, once you use it its really hard to go back to vent.

When you talk the other person hears it instantly, people reply so quickly sometimes you're not even done finishing your sentence, it owns.

It also is basically all automatically configured, no more setting volumes for everyone, and it has sound attenuation so when people talk you can make your game noise or music noise lower so you can hear them and then go back up.

Its just that awesome.