No speech in Wing Commander 2 CD Edition.

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Spaceman
Hello, everybody, again. Since you all did a wonderful job helping me with Secret Missions 2, I have another question to be answered. I'm running Wing Commander 2 Deluxe Edition on CD, and while I'm able to install the game, the speech isn't working. It detects expanded memory, and I made it clear in install (and winstall) that I want speech, but it won't give me speech. Here are the DOSbox settings:


[sdl]
fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=original
windowresolution=original
output=surface
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
usecancodes=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=C:\Users\Daniel\D-Fend Reloaded\mapper.txt

[dosbox]
machine=svga_s3
captures=C:\Users\Daniel\D-Fend Reloaded\Capture\Wing Commander 2\
memsize=16

[render]
frameskip=0
aspect=false
scaler=normal2x

[cpu]
core=auto
cputype=auto
cycles=auto
cycleup=500
cycledown=20

[mixer]
nosound=false
rate=22050
blocksize=2048
prebuffer=10

[midi]
mpu401=intelligent
mididevice=default
midiconfig=

[sblaster]
sbtype=sbpro1
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
sbmixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplrate=22050
oplemu=default

[gus]
gus=true
gusrate=22050
gusbase=240
gusirq=5
gusdma=1
ultradir=C:\ULTRASND

[speaker]
pcspeaker=true
pcrate=22050
tandy=auto
tandyrate=22050
disney=true

[dos]
xms=true
ems=true
umb=true
keyboardlayout=US

[joystick]
joysticktype=none
timed=true
autofire=false
swap34=false
buttonwrap=true

[serial]
serial1=dummy
serial2=dummy
serial3=disabled
serial4=disabled

[autoexec]
@echo off
SET PATH=Z:\
keyb US 437
mount C "C:\DANIEL~1\DOSTIT~1\"
mount G "G:\" -t cdrom -label G:\
C:
cd\
cd \WING2
Z:\config.com -securemode > nul
loadfix -16 WC2.EXE

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!
 
What are you choosing for your music card? Are you getting the sound effects at least?

Don't forget when you install the game that you have the IRQ for your soundcard set to 7 in your dosbox.conf file. You need to use that setting when installing no matter what the card is set to in reality.
 
Yeah, that's the tricky thing: DOSbox has IRQ as 7 by default, whereas Origin's games tended to set it to 5 by default.
 
Yeah, I am getting full sound and music, just no speech. And I set the install to Sound Blaster. I thought I set the IRQ to 7, as I do in install.
 
If I recall correctly, those DOS installations had a separate sound card option for Music and another for Speech / Sound Effects. Might be worth double-checking them.
 
ah, i believe you're thinking of x-wing's imuse system ;)

Do you need the gus support enabled, it's possible (but unlikely) that the dma in there is conflicting. it's more likely though that it's just an audio setup issue.

my wc2.cfg reads

v a904 c27

while in my dosbox configuration i read
[sblaster]
sbtype=sb16
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
sbmixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplemu=default
oplrate=44100

which also works fine if I change sbtype=sb16 to sbtype=sbpro1

I do have a slightly wierd setup (in version 0.74 i have disabled ems by default and have managed to get emm386 running inside dosbox :D - fixes jemm issues and several others) but it also works fine in my normal dosbox (which is 0.73)

If not then check how much memory you have available by typing mem at the dos prompt. i have for instance:
615 Kb free conventional memory
63 Kb free upper memory in 1 blocks (largest UMB 63kb)
15216 Kb free extended memory
15216 Kb free expanded memory

Have a bash and let us know!

edit: woot I ranked up :D
 
WC2 with D-Fend

Hey @all,

you did manage to run WC2 with D-Fend? How did you manage it? I have played WC1 with it very well but encounter problems with WC2. I use the CD (Deluxe) version. The problem is that in the setup of WC2 the setup asks at the end from which drive i want to install but im not able to enter any character. If I run the game directly I just read "Expanded memory detected" but thats all. No game ist starting. Can anybody give me some advice how I can get the Deluxe-Version running with D-Fend?

Many thanks in advance.
 
Spider76 said:
Hey @all,

you did manage to run WC2 with D-Fend? How did you manage it? I have played WC1 with it very well but encounter problems with WC2. I use the CD (Deluxe) version. The problem is that in the setup of WC2 the setup asks at the end from which drive i want to install but im not able to enter any character. If I run the game directly I just read "Expanded memory detected" but thats all. No game ist starting. Can anybody give me some advice how I can get the Deluxe-Version running with D-Fend?

Many thanks in advance.
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If you have the CD I recommend just copying the WING2 directory on the CD to your harddrive and running the game from there. Ignore the files in the root directory of the CD. After that you can just run *winstall* to set up your soundcard.
 
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