Attempted a run this evening (currently uploading to Youtube) and I crashed twice on Cross 3 when trying to kite large amounts of Kilrathi always when burning back to Nav 1. This has brought my crashes on this split using this strat to 3 out 3 attempts. Googling the error code shows some old threads from early 2000s saying there might be a sound config issue causing this. Would you mind sharing your dosbox and installer sound config settings?

Thanks!

I use a Dosbox Frontend called D-Fend Reloaded to configure my games, which stores the Dosbox config in a prof file with a lot of other settings, but the major relevant settings I use are as follows. The sound config should, of course, be in line with what you configure in Dosbox. --edit-- Actually, while the DosBox config has sb16 set, my Privateer installation detects/defaults/is set to just "Sound Blaster" rather than "Sound Blaster Pro/16

[dosbox] language= machine=vesa_oldvbe memsize=32 DOSBoxDirectory=Default captures=.\Capture\

[render] aspect=1 TextModeLines=25 frameskip=0 scaler=normal2x

[cpu] core=dynamic cycleup=500 cycledown=20 cycles=50000 cyclesup=10 cyclesdown=20 type=auto

[mixer] rate=22050 blocksize=2048 nosound=0 prebuffer=10

[midi] intelligent=true mpu401=intelligent device=default config= MT32Mode=auto MT32Time=5 MT32Level=3

[sblaster] type=sb16 base=220 oplrate=22050 mixer=1 irq=7 dma=1 hdma=5 sbtype=sb16 sbbase=220 oplmode=auto oplemu=default

[gus] gus=1 rate=22050 base=240 irq2=5 dma2=1 gusrate=44100 irq1=5 dma1=1 gusbase=240 ultradir=C:\ULTRASND

[speaker] pcrate=22050 tandyrate=22050 pcspeaker=1 disney=1 tandy=auto

[dos] Force2ButtonMouseMode=0 SwapMouseButtons=0 xms=1 ems=1 umb=1 4DOS=0 DOS32A=0 keyboardlayout=default codepage=default ReportedDOSVersion=default NumLockStatus= CapsLockStatus= ScrollLockStatus=

Thank you. Google suggests disabling speech might help. Otherwise not sure why my game is so unstable, PC is only a couple of years old.

Edit: i have cores to auto which I think might then set to max, wonder if that could be it.

Mine's a default GOG installation. Cutting out the comments, it's...

[sdl] fullscreen=true fulldouble=false fullresolution=desktop windowresolution=original output=overlay autolock=true sensitivity=100 waitonerror=true priority=higher,normal mapperfile=mapper-0.74-2.map usescancodes=true

[dosbox] language= machine=svga_s3 captures=capture memsize=16

[render] frameskip=0 aspect=false scaler=normal2x

[cpu] core=auto cputype=auto cycles=max cycleup=1000 cycledown=1000

[mixer] nosound=false rate=44100 blocksize=1024 prebuffer=25

[midi] mpu401=intelligent mididevice=default midiconfig=

[sblaster] sbtype=sb16 sbbase=220 irq=5 dma=1 hdma=5 sbmixer=true oplmode=auto oplemu=default oplrate=44100

[gus] gus=false gusrate=44100 gusbase=240 gusirq=5 gusdma=3 ultradir=C:\ULTRASND

[speaker] pcspeaker=true pcrate=44100 tandy=auto tandyrate=44100 disney=true

[joystick] joysticktype=auto timed=false autofire=false swap34=false buttonwrap=true

[serial] serial1=dummy serial2=dummy serial3=disabled serial4=disabled

[dos] xms=true ems=true umb=true keyboardlayout=auto

Rerunning the INSTALL.EXE file should let you reconfigure the sound setup to match whatever sound card your DOSBOX is emulating.

I would not be even slightly surprised it this is a sound problem. This game has a nasty habit of crashing when two sounds play at once (the usual manifestation of this is when taking damage causes both cockpit explosions to go off at once, and it almost always crashes when that happens.)