Turn on your speakers

This might help
Q. What if the sound doesn't work?
A. The section in 'dosbox.conf' that relates to the setting up of your sound card looks like this:

[sblaster]
# type -- Type of sblaster to emulate:none,sb1,sb2,sbpro1,sbpro2,sb16.
# base,irq,dma,hdma -- The IO/IRQ/DMA/High DMA address of the SoundBlaster.
# mixer -- Allow the SoundBlaster mixer to modify the dosbox mixer.
# oplmode -- Type of OPL emulation: auto,cms,opl2,dualopl2,opl3.
# On auto the mode is determined by sblaster type.
# oplrate -- Sample rate of OPL music emulation.

type=sb16
base=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
mixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplrate=22050
Usually, the only thing that will differ from game to game is the IRQ (Interrupt Request line). For instance, most Sierra 'Quest' games expect the IRQ to be 5, instead of the default which is 7. So, for these games you would set:

irq=5
If in doubt, either the sound set-up for the game, or the manual, should give you some clue as to what the possibilities/expectations for the IRQ are.

Another thing that could happen regarding sound is that your PC will normally be utilising full hardware sound acceleration - something that did not even remotely exist back in the good old DOS days. If you suspect this might be a problem, try the following:

Start -> Run -> dxdiag.exe
Then go to the Sound tab, and knock the 'Hardware Sound Acceleration Level' down a notch or two. Start up DOSBox again, and see if that gets you some sound.
Q. What if the sound is stuttering or the video is going too slow?
A. The sound is rarely going to be crystal clear because we are not using real sound hardware, remember? But if there are too many 'clicks', or the sound is cutting out, or the video is going too slow in a 3D game and you just keep spinning around when you try to move... then you are probably trying to emulate (sigh) more cycles per millisecond than your machine is capable of handling.


With versions of DOSBox prior to 0.70, you could try fiddling around with the cycles= and frameskip= parameters in 'dosbox.conf' in an attempt to find the best settings for this particular game/machine configuration. But with DOSBox 0.70 and a cycles=max setting, I'm afraid that if you're having problems of this nature then your machine is just not up to running that particular game. Sorry.