Microsoft KB Archive/261656

= Voice Chat Is Disabled When Hardware Acceleration Is Set to None =

Article ID: 261656

Article Last Modified on 1/27/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition

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This article was previously published under Q261656



SYMPTOMS
When you set the Hardware acceleration slider of your Voice Capture device to None during a voice-enabled multiplayer game, voice capability may be lost for all players of the current game.



CAUSE
This behavior can occur if the Creative Labs SoundBlaster PCI 128 sound card is installed in your computer.



RESOLUTION
To work around this issue, change the Hardware acceleration setting of your Voice Capture device to Full, and then restart your computer. To do so, follow these steps:
 * 1) On the taskbar, click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
 * 2) In Control Panel, double-click Sounds and Multimedia.
 * 3) In the Sounds and Multimedia Properties dialog box, click the Voice tab.
 * 4) In the Voice dialog box, under Voice Capture, click Advanced.
 * 5) Drag the Hardware acceleration slider to Full, and then click OK twice.
 * 6) Restart your computer.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: directplay voice disable

Keywords: kbprb KB261656

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