When I bought Dungeon Keeper Gold from GOG and tried to start playing it, I
noticed that the sound stuttered horrifically. A lot of people seem to have
this same problem. What appears to work for many of them is going into
dosboxDK.conf in the installation folder and changing cycles=80000 to
cycles=max. I did not find this effective; in fact it made things even worse.
What I did find effective was in fact manually bringing cycles allocated down
to 40000 with Ctrl-F11 to see what would solve the problem and then entering
that into dosboxDF.conf so that I would not have to repeat myself as
cycles=40000. It is possible that other values of cycles may be appropriate
on other platforms, but in any case fixed cycles may succeed where other
solutions fail.