Tried to play Lure of the temptress under both Dosbox 0.74 as well as Dosbox SVN r4006 ECE on Core i5 2450M Office Laptop, Win7 x64 pro with Munt.

During the intro, music glitches occasionally at the start. These glitches peak during the crescendo. Output set to surface & cycles set to max. Altering the cycles didn't seem to work too. Under task manager, Dosbox exhibits moderately high cpu usage during the glitching(increases to 15-30%, while normally it stays around 2-4%).

Strangely, not even a single glitch in the same laptop when the game was run in windows safe mode. There were around 30 processes in total and the dosbox cpu usage never crossed 2% during the whole intro. Under windows normal mode, there were around 80 processes, but none with high cpu usage. It is a HP probook 4430S laptop, if it helps. Windows reinstall isn't an option in this office laptop. I could stay with the safe mode, but sometimes it messes up when I get back to normal mode and have to boot with last known good settings to overcome it.

Also no such glitching on my Haswell Pentium desktop with the same dosbox conf in windows normal mode. Sounds beautiful thanks to the great minds behind the MUNT project. Thanks to Yesterplay80 for providing his ECE build to the community too. As my desktop is on temporary TV tuner duty, stuck up with laptop for some time.

Any advice please for zeroing in on the culprit?

edit: Glitches in XCOM UFO Defense too.