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so im so freeking tired of skypes crap!. crashing, high cpu usage, forgetting i have a camera and like 20 other issues.

 

anyway i need a replacement for it. i was looking at discord but i really need screen share and its kind of hard to find anything with that.

 

any ideas would be great :D

 

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4 minutes ago, thorbrantly101 said:

so im so freeking tired of skypes crap!. crashing, high cpu usage, forgetting i have a camera and like 20 other issues.

 

anyway i need a replacement for it. i was looking at discord but i really need screen share and its kind of hard to find anything with that.

 

any ideas would be great :D

 

You need to screen share? Just get teamviewer for that and use Discord or Teamspeak.

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1 minute ago, Starelementpoke said:

You need to screen share? Just get teamviewer for that and use Discord or Teamspeak.

team viewer has screen share? 

edit read team viewer as team speak. 

 

team viewer is too laggy for my uses

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5 minutes ago, thorbrantly101 said:

so im so freeking tired of skypes crap!. crashing, high cpu usage, forgetting i have a camera and like 20 other issues.

 

anyway i need a replacement for it. i was looking at discord but i really need screen share and its kind of hard to find anything with that.

 

any ideas would be great :D

 

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Google hangouts has screen sharing.

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2 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

it not only has screenshare, it allows control from the other party as well lol

ya read team viewer as team speak. got me confused :P

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12 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

You need to screen share? Just get teamviewer for that and use Discord or Teamspeak.

I wanted to say this exact thing :P (well, except for the TeamSpeak part, I support Discord1!1!1!1!1)

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I would just use teamviewer for the share and then discord for chat.

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