Waltorious: You should look into the sound settings in both the DOSBox .conf file and the "install" program that comes with the game. Go to your install directory and look for a file with the .conf extension; it's probably called something like "dosboxmm4-5.conf". Open it in a text editor and look for sound settings in there. You can change things around by trying different sound card settings. There's a lot of info about these settings in the DOSBox wiki. Check sections 2.6 and 2.7 about MIDI and soundblaster settings:
http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Dosbox.conf My suggestion would be to try different versions of soundblaster, like standard soundblaster, soundblaster pro and soundblaster 16. You can also try changing the Port, IRQ and DMA settings. Port is almost always set to 220 but you can try IRQ of 5 or 7, and DMA of 1 or 3.
You may also need to change the game's sound settings using the "install" program that comes with the game so that they match the choices you made in the .conf file. Unfortunately, you probably need to run the install program through DOSBox which can be tricky to do with the default installation settings. I gave some instructions for how to do this in another thread... read this post and my follow-up post for the full instructions:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/might_and_magic_series/why_do_the_games_run_so_fast/post14 Thanks for the input, although I haven't managed to get rid of the stuttering.
The only way to stop it is by switching over to roland emulation.
