Tides of War

Heh, well my voice was working better than before but now I get wierd things occuring. Whenever I change speeds and hear the bell then my guns cease fire. I also get the cease fire command when I move the pierscopre, but that is not bad because I am not using the deck gun anyway.

Are you playing with earphones or speakers?

From my experience, open speaker sounds from the game get picked up by the microphone and are sometimes taken for commands.

I play with earphones. Other play with speakers and use the "V" key to toggle the mike off when not issuing commands.

The voice command in gold edition is really a pain in the butt. Whenever it comes to a critical moment, aiming a V-Boat in close distance, and order "fire bow", the damn thing just retrieve the tactical, and I miss the chance to sink the boat, then, get toasted.....it happens all the time. It really makes me miss the old edition in which the voice command is so acurate and never gives me any trouble. I dont know what they did to the voice command program!!!

"fire bow", the damn thing just retrieve the tactical ) Quote from original poster .

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Normally subs ' retract ' or retrieve tactical . and of course " Fire bow " is a sub command .

Therefor I don't see how the idea of MTB's got into this at all ..

Oh well .

To me it was clear a sub was in the example . and very critical when near V boat ( Freyr Corvette ) .

Attacking a V boat in a MTB ,, I wouldn't use " Tactical " but rather external view - so that is another reason which would not make me think it was an MTB .

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Voice commands are one of the great features of the game . Almost vital in some situations .

Pity that some are having difficulty , hope it can get sorted .

Voice commands are one of the great features of the game . Almost vital in some situations .
Pity that some are having difficulty , hope it can get sorted .

I never have used them and have no problems playing the game..maybe if I ever get me own private den/office and the kids grow up some more where I don't have to worry about being too loud I can use the voice...till then the game is still the BEST naval game I have ever seen or played Bar None! Now if I can just put enought fish in that dang BB I will have completed the surface and bottom feeder campaigns. Dat is only thing I find a little weird East, have put like 15...no less, 15 good fish in multiple spots on that beastie and it still doesn't go down to davy jones's locker....must be the dang Bismark on roids lol.

I made a suggestion, some time back, that a future Enigma have a talk key option that sumultaneously opens the microphone and reduces game sounds by some user selected amount--80% to 90% would probably be enough. This sounds reletively easy to code (but what do I know) and would allow playing the game with lound speakers shaking the rafters.

Another refinement might be to have the game to reduce peak back ground noises, like gun fire, when the crew is actually speaking, just enough so that they can be heard without reducing the overall sound volume. Players might not notice this theatrical trick if it were done carefully because the crew speaks in short phrases. I believe i've seen this done in movie sound tracks.

I havent played ERT in ages- and recently installed all the patches for my Australian Version. One patch was suppose to install from V2.1.8 to 3.0 Gold

But on the main game screen it still shows V2.1.8 in top right corner.

Anyway, im having probs with the speech recog also- it sometimes works sometimes doesnt. I have used Speech Training a few times already. When in Preferences menu in game, i choose Test Microphone when i click on test button it seems to turn Mic off and it times out. But i can hear myself speak alright before i click on (TesT).

In game, i also notice the graphics and game is a little sluggish- i have since upgraded my computer- more ram and faster cpu. I wonder if any other Australian version users have had any problems with the latest patch? the game used to play good for me graphics wise and voice recog.

Cheers

Red

Test your audio by unmuting the mic and listening to the sound quality. Another way is to record the sound of your voice and listen. If there is blowing or distortion in the sound, voice recognition will suffer. The voice recognition works very well for me.

The wrong version # is a mistake.

In the tech support forum there is a sticky readme. read ?13 about the mike, make sure that the input device is set properly.

And dont forget to get the latest driver(s) for sound and videocards.

Try also lower the sound hardware acceleration for better gfx performance.