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Skyshard / Lorebook guides

Sun, 6 Apr 2014 18:27:14 -0400

Also, if you really want it to be easy mode, you can go to esoui and download the esohead and esohead markers add-ons. This puts markers on your map for all collected and uncollected skyshards.

Vent Info & Walkthrough

Sun, 6 Apr 2014 13:45:12 -0400

Vent Info:

Host:208.100.40.20
Port: 3877
PW: GoT (case-sensitive)

This walk-through will show you how to set up Vent. There is another post that explains how to normalize volume in vent. This procedure is highly recommended as it keeps you from getting your ears blown out or not being able to hear people.

Vent can be found here. You need to download the correct flavor of the client program based on your OS (Win 32bit, 64bit, etc). After installing and running, you will be presented with the following screen

Click on the arrow next to the Username drop down menu

You will then be taken to the set up user screen where you will create your username

If this is the first time you have used vent, you will click new and be presented with this screen

Then click the arrow next to the server drop down menu and the connection editor will appear. Once again, you will click new to create a new connection. You may name the server anything you wish. The information contained in this screenshot is accurate and as follows:

Host:208.100.40.20
Port: 3877
PW: GoT (case-sensitive)

After that you should be back to the main screen, where you will click connect and join the server. If you have problems joining, please ensure you have typed all the information correctly.

Also, please be sure to run vent as admin. If not, you will likely not be able to talk once in game.

You are now good to go!

Vent Normalization Walkthrough

Sun, 6 Apr 2014 13:44:28 -0400

Instead of haveing to add volume controls to each individual this will automatically fix most of your problems in one step,sometimes after adding this as a general function you will have to add it to a specific person(there were 3 people in the guild I still couldnt hear ,but adding compressor again and a volume control fixed it) Its not perfect but it streamlines the process.

Vent Normalization attempts to make everybody's voice the exact same volume. It's not perfect, but much better with than without. In essence, you won't blow your ear's out or have difficulty hearing people. Might still have to adjust people, but a lot less than you do without it.
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Here's how:

- Go to Setup

- Enable Direct Sound

- Select the SFX Button

- Select Compressor and click Add.

- Under Compressor Properties use the following settings

- Gain = Adjust for how loud you want people to be. (I use 15)

- Attack = 0.01

- Release = Around 500

- Threshold = Around -30

- Ratio = 100

- Pre delay = 4.0

What the settings do

Gain

How much volume you feed into the compressor. Not really relevant unless everyone is too quiet, then you can turn this up a little; turning it up too much will sound EXTREMELY shitty.

Attack

How fast volume change will happen. example: setting this to 500 means that any-
thing coming in will only be dropped in volume after a half a second. for vent this should
be set as low as possible.

Release

how fast the compressor stops changing things. not really that relevant with vent, setting it around 500 is good for voice material.

Threshold

This sets the point where we actually start changing what's coming in. Whereas 0 is the absolute loudest you can have for an input, -60 is super quiet. Average users will probably come in somewhere around -25 to -15, with the occasional few being really quiet, which is why I have this set so low.

Ratio

How much any sound below the set threshold gets compressed and/or modified in the volume department.
If you still want to hear SOME volume variation then set this lower (2-4)... the higher you set it the closer in volume everyone will be.

Pre delay

Mostly just deals with processing; with computer and digital processors they can look ahead a few milliseconds to see what needs to be dropped in volume or changed before it actually comes through the speakers. Highest is ideal.