Skype/Ventrillo/CoH incompatibility?
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Flarstux,
Posted on: 2010-10-20 16:10 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
I don't have any experience with Skype, but I'm almost always on Teamspeak when I play CoH (even though the people I talk to are not playing CoH) and until a few months ago I'd been using Ventrilo (used it for years) - never had any problems with CoH from using either of those.
I'm on Skype nightly with my friends in-game, and as far as I know, none of us have had this issue.
Have used Skype while playing, and never had this problem. It could be something in his router settings causing the two programs to conflict with each other. Maybe somehow he managed to set a skype port forward range to a port or ports CoH happens to use, that's the only thing I can think off the top of my head.
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Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
Any advice would be appreciated. I've suggested he uninstalls WoW and all connected software and never speaks to any of his WoW-friends again, but he's expressed that he'd prefer a less radical solution
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The first part of that should be fine then - nothing radical there
However rather than never speaking to then he needs to educate them as to how much superior CoH is
More seriously though are there there may be a bottleneck in either memory or network bandwith which is getting hit when zoning. Has he changed the windows priorities for either CoH or Skype?
Also is this happening at all times or just certain parts of the day - traffic shaping by his ISP or on his firewall could also affect this.
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Somewhat similiar issue discussed here,
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=219441
Seemed it helped some to set skype to a higher "priority".
I've had success doing this with ventrilo when I had similiar issues. GL
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Originally Posted by Gaia
The first part of that should be fine then - nothing radical there
However rather than never speaking to then he needs to educate them as to how much superior CoH is |
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
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Setting the priorities of Skype to Above Normal and CoH to Normal worked, everything's fine now. Thanks for the advice, all.
Eco.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
[The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."
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A friend has recently started playing CoH, and we've been using Skype to chat whilst playing. He also plays WoW, and his guild there uses Ventrillo and Teamspeak. He's been experiencing the following problem:
He can log in to CoH and play with no problems, but after he's ingame and he starts up Skype, the next time he zones, he gets a 'cannot connect to db server' message and is booted out. This seems to happen if he's been chatting on Vent with his WoW-mates in between CoH sessions.
If he doesn't start Skype up, CoH runs fine.
Any advice would be appreciated. I've suggested he uninstalls WoW and all connected software and never speaks to any of his WoW-friends again, but he's expressed that he'd prefer a less radical solution
Eco.
EDIT: SOLVED. SEE LAST POST IN THREAD.
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The Audition, Arc ID 221240 (6 mish, complex mech, comedy)
Storming Citadel, Arc ID 379488 (lowbie, 1mish, 10-min timed)