Initiailly had stutting, freezing and crashing shortly after starting the game. Modified dosbox.conf and disabled fullscreen, set windowresolution to match desktop, and disabled gus. Disabling of Gus had the biggest effect and stopped the crashing.

Below is all the setting I used for dosbox:\

[sdl]
fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=original
windowresolution=1280x960
output=ddraw
autolock=true
sensitivity=100

[dosbox]
machine=svga_s3
captures=capture
memsize=63

[render]
frameskip=0
aspect=false
scaler=none

[cpu]
core=pentium_slow
cputype=auto
cycles=41500
cycleup=1000
cycledown=1000

[mixer]
nosound=false
rate=22050
blocksize=4096
prebuffer=14

[midi]
mpu401=intelligent
device=win32
config=0

[sblaster]
sbtype=sb16
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
mixer=true
oplmode=opl3
oplrate=22050  

[gus]
gus=false

[speaker]
pcspeaker=false

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