Bex Waifu
Good afternoon,
Thank you so much for letting my little homestead participate in this beta!
As soon as the WebRTC beta was installed on my homestead I noticed a HUGE issue. Firestorm / Second Life completed a driver update of some kind. I didnā€™t catch a screen shot of the update, but it occurred incredibly quickly, almost behind the scenes. Once complete, I noticed all of my audio services (Spotify, Youtube, Opera, Discord, Etc) experienced a huge decrease in intensity and volume. Second Life voice chat became extremely faint. Everything needed to be turned up to very high volumes to barely hear anything.
However, when I teleport away from my homestead to my linden home, all audio intensity is instantly restored. I have added a warning on my land for guests to be aware of the drastic audio change because it caught me by surprise. Very glad it didnā€™t harm my ears.
A few guests came over to help test the audio and commented that our voices were extremely faint and there was a lot of popping. Thinking this might be related, we teleported to my linden home. Audio was suddenly crisp, clear and plenty loud.
Another test showed that while in a private call with my guests, and I teleported back to my homestead, the call would drop. I could not be added back to the call either. Least not until I teleported away to another sim.
If we start the private call while on my homestead, the call quality will be horrible. Very faint, popping, cracking and decreasing the sound for all services. If a friend starts the call while I am on the homestead, it will let me join, and use the voice services from the sim my friend is on. The call will be crisp, clear and plenty loud.
I have updated all my drivers, verified my install of Firestorm, and launched programs such as discord and spotify one at a time. The results seem to be the same across the board. I have not tried the SL viewer or the mobile viewer (not sure if mobile has voice).
I have also found that being duel logged (having two sessions running at the same time) will multiple the issue. Any sound heard will be doubly quiet.
Please let me know if you need any additional information or would like me to run any additional tests.