Teamspeak 3 Overlay

Teamspeak 3 Overlay is a plugin for Teamspeak that allows you to see the members of your current TS3 channel within your DirectX Games.

Currently the following features are implemented:

  • DirectX 10 Support
  • DirectX 9 Support
  • DirectX 8 Support
  • Move and resize the overlay window without moving the player (mouse movements / clicks hidden from game if not needed).
  • See who's talking in realtime
  • Convenient setup
  • Configuration of initial size, colors, fonts etc

Still on the todo-list:

  • Connecting to Teamspeak Server without leaving the game (this feature is currently only present in version 1.x.x)
  • Support DirectX 11
  • Support OpenGL
  • Make in-game connecting more convenient
  • Show (and connect to) TS3 server bookmarks
  • Multiple tab support
  • Chat auto-reply when in-game

Donations:

This software is for free, however if you like the product and want to support me, feel free to give a small donation by clicking the button below. Thank you.

Installation instructions:

  • Download and extract the package
  • Install the DirectX End-User Runtime (Web-Installation executable included, but can also be found on Microsoft's homepage)
  • Copy the DLL files from the archive's 'plugin' folder to your TS3 Client installation's plugins-folder
  • Activate the plugin in Teamspeak (Settings - Plugins - Check 'DirectX overlay plugin'

Forum:

The forum can be accessed here.

Screenshots:

World of Warcraft, normal mode:

World of Warcraft, minimal mode:

Downloads:

ts3_overlay-2.0.11.exe (setup)

ts3_overlay-2.0.11.rar (files only)

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ChangeLog:

Version 2.0.11

  • Fixed a crash on some XP systems
  • Made hooking method configurable (hook.method, check the configuration file)

Version 2.0.10

  • The plugin is now displayed within Aion (and probably also other games)
  • The window can now be moved within Guild Wars (and probably also other games, that had the same problem)
  • Made the font colour (and opacity) configuratble
  • Fixed some minor bugs

Version 2.0.9

  • Fixed recursion on DX10 games

Version 2.0.8

  • Fixed crash on multi-line chat-messages

Version 2.0.7

  • Added Configuration files. Check the config_default.ini for details
  • Steam overlay support implemented (still in beta stage)

Version 2.0.6

  • Updated to the latest TS3 API (requires TS3 beta25)

Version 2.0.5

  • Fixed a windows XP issue

Version 2.0.4

  • Updated to the latest TS3 API (requires TS3 beta23)
  • Alternative mouse cursor is shown as long as scroll lock is activated
  • Option to activate "minimal mode", so names are only visible while talking

Version 2.0.3

  • Disabled clipping for D3D8

Version 2.0.2

  • Implemented D3D8

Version 2.0.1

  • Better compatibility with Steam overlay
  • Made plugin also work with D3D9 software emulation
  • More logging output
  • Improved stability

Version 2.0.0

  • Using the CEGUI Engine for free skinning and better speed
  • Even more internal speed improvements
  • Per-Game skinning possibility
  • Logfiles ;-)

Version 1.0.13

  • Fixed resize problem
  • Fixed another crash

Version 1.0.12

  • Framerate drop should now be more or less constant for all games

Version 1.0.11

  • Possibility to switch on cursor in games without cursor, even if hardware cursor is disabled by the game (Scroll-Lock)
  • Query clients are no longer shown in the overlay

Version 1.0.10

  • Possibility to switch on cursor in games without cursor (Scroll-Lock)
  • Made Overlay resizeable

Version 1.0.9

  • DirectX 8 is completely supported
  • Fixed the crash with Regnum Online
  • Fixed some minor issues

Version 1.0.8

  • Added Regnum Online to blacklist, so it should no longer crash

Version 1.0.7

  • Removed another crash on channel switch after plugin-reload

Version 1.0.6

  • Removed another possible crash
  • Fixed the edit fields
  • First try for FPS where your character moves / looks around by moving the mouse without pressing a mouse button. Try pressing Scroll-Lock...

Version 1.0.5

  • (hopefully) removed sporadic crash if someone enters / leaves a channel
  • More work on the 64bit plugin

Version 1.0.4

  • Fixed output, if game was using fog
  • Switched to another injection engine to support 64bit (thanks to Daniel Pistelli)
  • First 64bit approach (untested)

Version 1.0.3

  • DirectX 8 support
  • Internal blacklist (currently only for Visual Studio)
  • Improved hooks (Injecting CBT hook globally, mouse / kbd hooks only for relevant applications)

Version 1.0.2

  • Support for more games, e.g. CoD4, Fly for fun
  • Separated rendering functions from remaining sourcecode, so other DirectX versions can be supported more easily

Version 1.0.1

  • Unicode-Support