Ventrilo - Miscellaneous Setup

Minimize to system tray

> This option enables the program to minimize to a small icon in the System Tray (that little area on that task bar next to the clock). When in the System Tray you can also right click on the icon to get a popup menu for controlling features of the program without being forced to restore the full window.

Silent blank comments

> When this option is enabled it will prevent the program from generating a "Comment Event" if a user is sending a blank (or empty) comment thus clearing any previous comments next to their name.

Silent connections when in a channel

> This option will prevent Ventrilo from generating sound events when other users connect and disconnect if you are in a channel other then the lobby.

Auto expand all channels when connecting

> This option instructs the program to automatically expand all channels and their associated sub-channels when connecting to the server. This is very handy because you will then be able to see all users that are connected to the server and which channels they are in. If you turn this option off you can still expand all of the channels by right clicking on the server name in the user list window and selecting Display->Expand All.

Synchronous

> This option forces all wave file messages and Text-to-speech messages to be played one at a time. If several people are playing wave files or TTS messages at the same time it can be very hard to understand them all or the sound level might be overbearing.

Key Forwarding

> Note: This option has very little use and should be left disabled unless you have a specific reason for it.

> This option has no effect when a binding group s selected that has the "Use DirectInput" option in the bindings editor enabled

> When you activate a group of binds via the Bindings pull down box the program intercepts those keys and prevents any other applications from using them. However, if you enable the Key Forwarding option Ventrilo will try to forward the intercepted keys on to what ever program happens to be in the foreground. In theory this is a nice feature as it will not prevent any other programs from using those keys. However, in practice it means that you potentially wind up flooding wave file and TTS messages to the other users connected to the same server as you. This feature works with most normal applications like word processors, browsers, command windows and the like, but it doesn't work with some games. Please be considerate of other users when turning this feature on.

Process priority class

> This option should be used with care and left in the "Normal" mode unless it is deemed absolutely necessary to change it.

> When set to "Normal" the program will run at the same priority level as any other program.

> When set to "High" the program will boost it's priority level so that it will receive more CPU time then any other program currently running on the system. This does not mean that the program will consume more CPU time during normal use, simply that it will be granted more time should it be needed.

> Apparently some systems have a hard time distributing processor load when certain games are being played, which in turn starves Ventrilo for CPU time and prevents it from performing it's normal work load. This has the effect of causing things to be delayed whether they be voice communication or sound feed back events like "key clicks" and TTS notifications.

> Be warned, certain types of events can take a while to execute. For example, a very long TTS message takes a while (in CPU terms) to be generated into a machine voice. If you have this option set to high then it's possible that Ventrilo will momentarily starve the rest of the system for CPU time while it's generating the TTS sounds. The longer the TTS message the more time it takes to generate.

> You should also consider the quality of your sound card drivers. The sound input devices don't work very well on some of the older sound cards or on-board sound systems. This in turn will cause Ventrilo to receive more sound input data then it should be which usually causes the program to generate a message because it has detected the sound input data coming in too fast. However, it's a good idea to enable the "Use DirectSound for Input Device" option as it tends to resolve a lot of these problems. But the point to this is that if your system is not behaving properly then setting this option to high could cause your computer to become unresponsive.

Play comments when

> This option controls when comments sent by other users should be played as a sound event. If you are having problems with people spamming comments but do not wish to password protect your server or enable the spam filters in the Server Properties window, you can place a password on a specific channel and then set this option to either the Same Root or Same Current channel selections.

> In any channel

> > This is the default mode and will allow user comments to be played no matter what channel you and they are in.

> Same root channel

> > Comments will only be played if you and the person sending the comment are in the same root channel or in sub-channels of the same root channel .

> Same current channel

> > Comments will only be played if you and the person sending the comment are in the same channel.

> Never

> > Comments will never be played.

Window color

> Override window colors

> > When this option is checked the colors specified by the Foreground and Background buttons will be displayed as the window background color instead of using the system default background color. If you disable this option the color settings will remain intact but the window background color will return to the system default color.

> Foreground

> > This button will open a color selection dialog box where you can select what the foreground text color will be.

> Background

> > This button will open a color selection dialog box where you can select what the background window color will be.