Well, sorry, I might have confused it with another title. Does dialogue text set the speed? I searched for your problem in Google and it gave this:
http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic....752&highlight=. Someone else had this problem too. You might want to check whether the game files are intact as the poster in the ScummVM forums suggest.
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