Check your sound card settings in Simcity.

I've tried editing dosbox's config file to change what sound card it's emulating as well as changing the settings in simcity to match them, as well as turning sound off on simcity, but still get the same error.

Either set fixed cycles or use a CVS build.

nevermind, got it working. Thanks for your help!

Could you tell me how did you do that? I've got the same problem. Maybe you already had found optimal settings? Please, share it.

Read hal's posting.

i'm having the same problem, and i'm still confused...can anybody help me with this?

If you're using osx, i just used a dosbox frontend called boxer, and it magically made it all work correctly. never got to the bottom of what caused the issue, though. hope this helps.

Ironically I have no idea why SC2000 would work on Boxer but not DOSBox 0.72 either. Boxer does not special-case this game; it may just be down to the game being installed to a subfolder, or some other vagary of installation. Still, glad it works! 😀

As a note for people recommending fixes for OS X users: the only CVS builds available for OS X (rhoenie's, found here) are still very unstable, and so not currently suitable to recommend as a fix for crash problems.