PSA: Possible solution if your Voice Attack frequently crashes!

[DirtyMike0330]

Since using Vaicom, Voice Attack would intermittently freeze and/or crash on me MULTIPLE times during game play. This wasn't just in DCS, it would happen when playing IL2 as well - which initially led me to believe it was something to do with plugins being active in general, as I never had that prior to buying Vaicom (and never had crashing issues either). 

 

Anyway, one of the Vaicom installation steps was to change AUDIO OUTPUT TYPE in Voice Attack to WINDOWS COMPONENTS. My default was INTEGRATED COMPONENTS. 

 

I saw something in reference to that in an old post on some other forum and decided to switch it back to INTEGRATED COMPONENTS and, lo and behold, 0 voice attack crashes during 2 sessions of 3-4 hour VR game play. 

 

Again, prior to that change, there was no game session in which voice attack wouldn't freeze up several times and require a restart. It happened at least 2 or 3 times every time I played. 

 

Changing back to integrated components did not seem to have any impact on the functionality of Vaicom, so I'm not sure why that is part of the installation process anyway. 

 

Hopefully this will help you out if you're having intermittent issues with voice attack locking up and/or crashing!