Voice Communication
To easily communicate between players, Baldur's Gate supports voice communications software. Tales of the Sword Coast shipped with a special edition of Roger Wilco. They allow you to speak into your microphone and have your voice transmitted to the other game players, obviating the need to type your thoughts in the multiplayer chat window. These programs should be running before entering Baldur's Gate or using a game locator program like GameSpy.
Roger Wilco
Roger Wilco from Resounding Technology is akin to using walkie-talkies and can be voice-activated or used in key-depress mode. One client acts as host and setups the connection for others to join. Roger Wilco requires a microphone or headset for the PC which easily connects to almost all standard soundcards and a minimum 28.8K modem. Unlike Internet phone programs, Roger Wilco is specifically designed for to run with Internet multi-player online games without requiring an additional soundcard. The full retail version of the software supports 128 players simultaneously per channel without requiring a dedicated server. In order for Roger Wilco to work with Baldur's Gate, the following lines must be present in the GAMES.TXT file.
After Battlezone, insert the following line, as is, with quotation marks. Then save the file and start the program. Just be careful about talking during load screens as it will garble what you are saying.
"Baldur's Gate" 0 3000
Baldur's Gate Tales of the Sword Coast included a special edition of Roger Wilco. The software accomodates up to six players on a channel, allowing the entire party to strategize, react to situations in real time and interact on a more personal level while adventuring through Baldur's Gate and Tales of the Sword Coast. The Baldur's Gate Edition of Roger Wilco is only be fully functional with Baldur's Gate; if used with other games it acts like a demo of the full version of Roger Wilco. The full version runs in a demo mode which times out in 15 minutes, unless the user has registered it. The distribution did not include instructions other than the built-in links to Resounding's Help Web Pages.
BattleCom
BattleCom 1.2 (formerly Battlefield Communicator) from Shadow Factor currently has beta versions available for their client and server software. In the latest release, up to 64 people can join together in a network using only the client program. The microphone transmits when it automatically detects you talking and the sounds become mixed into the game's audio.
Make sure the following items are listed in the Gamelink database.
You simply need to add an entry to the GameLink
database (no editing of text files here). The
window name should be "Baldur's Gate". Select
"Game normally mutes external applications", and
any plug in delay larger than 2000 should work fine.
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