Betrayal Collection

Betrayal Collection

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Activating Voice Acting in Betrayal at Krondor
By Napoleon Blownaparte
This short guide describes how to activate voice acting in the "Betrayal Collection" version of Betrayal at Krondor, which comes with it turned off by default.
   
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Activating Voice Acting
The "Betrayal Collection" version of Betrayal at Krondor doesn't appear to have voice acting in it but it's there, it just needs to be configured. The reason for this is that the game comes pre-configured to use the old MT32 sound drivers, which don't support the voice acting aspects of the game. To fix this, go into your game directory by right-clicking on "Betrayal Collection" in your Steam library, selecting Properties, changing to the Local Files tab, clicking Browse Local Files, and then changing into the Betrayal at Krondor folder. Use a text editor to open the RESOURCE.CFG file. Change the line that reads "soundDrv = MT32.DRV" to read "soundDrv = SNDBLAST.DRV", then save and exit from the file. Now when you play the game, you'll get limited voice acting as well, which usually takes place when you first meet characters such as Squire Phillip. The down side is that the Sound Blaster drivers don't sound quite as good as the MT32 drivers but at least you can still use the CD music. It's a personal choice but I prefer to have the voice acting activated so I hope that helps somebody else as well.

You can test that this works by starting a new game and heading South on the road toward Krondor. You will soon be stopped by Squire Phillip, who you should hear shout out "hold there!" when dialogue starts appearing on screen.
6 Comments
Old Man Shadowdark 29 Mar @ 6:58pm 
Disregard the post by "Geeneral Plastro" with the link to GOG if you don't trust downloading a bunch of third party mods, patches, ect.
Badam 15 Dec, 2024 @ 9:22pm 
Creative Labs for the win! Even back on Windows 95 when DOS games like this were still supported in the native OS you were always better off using SoundBlaster for audio when it was an option!
Bärligaymer 25 Apr, 2024 @ 6:53am 
Thank you very much!
Editing the RESOURCE.CFG file also works with other (non-Steam) versions of the game.
General Plastro 8 Jul, 2020 @ 8:47pm 
This guide is quite outdated even when it was written, use the following guide from 2013 to patch your game and get both voices and sfx alongside CD music with whatever sound card you wanna use for the former. It also includes programs that can make your overall Dosbox sound experience way better.

https://www.gog.com/forum/krondor_series/guide_to_betrayal_at_krondor_music_and_sound_effects_settings/page1
Uther 7 May, 2020 @ 8:03am 
Splendid! I cannot thank you enough for posting this! At first I was puzzled by the lack of voices and differing sound effects than I remember from playing Krondor all those years ago. After following your procedure the sound is better and I can hear the voices of dwarves, townsfolk, heroes, and villans of Midkemia once again after all these years! Thanks! :thronescoin:
Xander77 3 Jan, 2019 @ 12:07pm 
I literally replayed this game 5 or so times, even writing a guide, and I never knew that.

Or never remembered I knew that, same thing.