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PRE-INSTALLATION

Before you begin, please remove any old QuakeVoice files you may have in a directory somewhere. Now, verify that when you start Quake2 like so: C:\quake2\quake2 ,under the options menu, the audio is Low Quality and Max Compatibility.

If Quake2 IS NOT setup that way, you WILL either get some really bad (but understandable) sound, or static. If you get static, YOU MUST USE MAX COMPATIBILITY. Quake2 does funny things with DirectSound, and we have no way around it short of licensing all of Quake2 ($500K+ in cost).

INSTALLATION

Download the client .ZIP file from the QVoice web site. Once you have it (it isn't THAT big), simply open it up with your favorite ZIP viewer (WinZip, Plus for 98, etc) and extract all of the files to the root directory of your hard drive. Make sure you extract it with the -d option, to recreate the directory structute. Great! Now, start QuakeVoice and forget about it. When Quake2 starts, QuakeVoice will handle everything automatically, so you don't need to do anything more.

A few new items:
QuakeVoice now registers a little status bar icon. So look down in the bottom right of your start bar. Cool, eh? Right click to get a menu, or double click the left mouse button to restore a minimized QuakeVoice window.
When you DO minimize QuakeVoice, its icon will disappear, and the only way you can show the main window is double clicking on the status bar icon. So if explorer.exe crashes on you, CTRL-ALT-DEL, select QuakeVoice and click "End Task." Unless, of course, you don't want to end QuakeVoice. :) It's a flaw in 95/98/NT, so don't blame me.

Some notes on the registry:
QuakeVoice saves *very* little information in the registry right now, but it does save some. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\QUAKEVOICE\SETTINGS

JitterBufferSize (0...5) -> Size of jitter buffer. With "None" there is some delay, associated with how QuakeVoice handles its output buffer. The most that delay can be is 1/8th of a second.