Hi, creating a new thread for the sound topic as the last one is marked as solved, although the solution no longer seems to apply.

I've got the problem where the sound effects come through with midi instead of sound blaster.

I've recently reinstalled, the WINGCMDR.CFG file contains "v a904", there's no r in it although I've tried changing it to "v a552" as suggested in the previous threat but that doesn't help.

What am I doing wrong here?

Old thread: http://www.gog.com/en/forum/wing_commander_privateer/wc1_crappy_sound_and_sluggish_mouse/page1

Apparently (as of January 2012, when I installed it), GOG fixed this.

If your game sounds like this, then Soundblaster Emulation is working.

If dosbox uses the default Windows MIDI device you don't get proper laser shot sounds (you get pinball-machine PLING PLONGs as mentioned in the other sound thread).

I was a bit disappointed by the Soundblaster sound, wanted the game to sound like THIS. Deep explosions, satisfying laser shots and great music.

I messed around with a dosbox build that supports Roland MT-32 (mentioned in the other thread). It worked, but gave me very choppy sound.

So, I tried to build an emulated Roland MT-32 to make it my default Windows MIDi device:
http://queststudios.com/smf/index.php?topic=3376.0
(Works with my Win 7 x64 and the gog dosbox. I used Option #1 and "v R" in the WINGCMDR.CFG, when I set it so "v a904" I get SB sound again).

Well, I hope that helps more than it might confuse. :)

Hey, thx for this post. I thought munt was abandoned long time ago and also from earlier users comments - it wasn't working well. But this X'2011 version (tried it on WC1, WC2, SQ3 ) sounds just great.

For anyone on windows xp 32 bit who, like me, is not a tech whiz and was struggling with choppy, terrible sound, here is what I did to solve it (and it was actually really easy once I figured out the right thing). I hope it works for anyone else having trouble.

I downloaded and installed this (a few clicks of the mouse is all it takes):

sourceforge.net/projects/munt/

Then I changed the tiny bit of text in my WINGCMDR.CFG file (in the wing commander folder that GoG had installed the game into. Right click on the file and choose to open the file with notepad, then edit the text and save --don't forget to back the file up elsewhere in case you need to revert back to it later!. I changed the text from "v a904 z" to "v r z" and the sound works for me! No more choppy stuttering sounds. :)