None of them was muted, but I turned up the CD volume and still have the same problem. It's rather puzzling.

You mean Master Volume, correct? It is not set on mute. Besides, the music works fine. I decided to delete the directory and reinstall it entirely using DOSBox, and selected yes for the sound blaster volumes, but it still will not play the speech.

I am using the original CDs to play the game, I was just using CloneCD to find out the actual size of the data on the CD-ROM, since XP was only showing 52 MB and I know that wasn't correct. I also know that the speech in the game is set to on, since it's set to on by default. To clarify, my WMP11 …

I know the same version came in the Ultimate RPG Archive package, since I have it and it's two CDs as well.

The music itself is MIDI. Not sure what format the speech files are in, but they do not show up when looking at the CD in XP. Neither Winamp nor WMP11 can find them on the CDs. I am already mounting the CD_ROM with the -ioctl switch, since if I don't the game gives an error that says an audio CD is …

I installed it again in DOSBox, and it hasn't made a difference.

I installed it through the installer off the CD by clicking setup. The CD version of the game definitely has speech for all NPCs. I specifically remember a lot of them, and there's posts from comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg around the time that it was released that mention speech for all NPCs. CloneCD …

I have tried changing the configuration file back and changing the settings in the game, but it hasn't helped. Here are all the sound settings for the game in the installer: http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a126/Arklier/Other%20stuff/XeenSound.jpg http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a126/Arklier/ …

Yes, they are what matches the settings in the game. Before I changed the IRQ, the game would crash whenever there was speech at all. HMA I changed because there was an A:3 in the sound settings and I couldn't think of anything else that might be. This is the first game I've attempted to run under …

I have the CD version of WoX, but it's the original CD version, which I bought back around 1994. It does not have Swords, just CoX/DoX. The game plays just fine, aside from the fact that I can't get any speech from the NPCs unless it's either part of a cutscene or a full screen image like going to …