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I apologise about posting in the wrong section. it wont happen again

Motherboard
I dont know

Processor type and speed
Pentium 4

Amount and type of RAM
unsure of type, but something like 1,500

Video board w/ RAM amount and type
ATI Radeon 9800 pro with 256 ram

Sound board
not sure

Operating system
Windows

Game name (and version, if applicable)
Mad Dog Mcree 1.03b

Description of problem (be detailed: saying "it's jerky" doesn't help, saying "the player sprites seem to be jerky when I'm pressing any of the arrow keys" does)
ive tested it a little bit more, the error seems to occur if I fire too quickly in a short amount of time, or try to go into the saloon

Reproducibility of problem (always, only once, always but only on a specific level, etc.)
Always, but on those specific times

Sound mode used
no adjustments made

Video mode (Software, OpenGL, Direct3D, or Glide, and resolution)
no adjustments made

Version of emulator (for VDMSound, probably 2.0.4 or 2.1.0; for DOSBox, 0.58+)
unsure, just recently dled dosbox within the past few days.

Steps already attempted to solve the problem (please say you've read the README if you haven't, and READ IT IF YOU HAVEN'T!)

Well, i can only run the game off the cd, if I attempt to run the game after moveing the files from the cd to the hardrive I get an error message.

try typing cycles 6000 before starting the game

that suggestion got me going on the right track, 6000 didnt work but I changed it to 1000 and it went just fine, thank you for your help, but what is that changing exactly?

Actually even at 1000 cycles it can still lockup if you shoot too quickly. Not sure what the hell is causing it either.

EDIT - In fact it seems the fewer cycles you give it, the less it occurs. Although below 1000 its basically unresponsive and unplayable.

yes, that is what I noticed, because at 6000 it froze up on mine even trying to get to the menu screen.