It's a shame, but GK2 seems riddled with bugs...every so often the game simply locks up--freezes--and it's such a hard lock that often I have to log out of Win10x64 just to recover my desktop.

I'm using the 64-bit version of DOSbox, and every tweak possible within the startup sequence...but it doesn't matter because the game seems to enjoy locking up at odd moments--doesn't seem to be rhyme or reason to it--just bugs.

That's the only problem I have with the game (as if that wasn't enough!)--don't have that problem with any other DOSbox game and I own several of them. Maybe someone here has some experience with the game that will help...Thanks!

Solved. I found that when I changed the midi driver to the GENMIDI.DRV (I use Coolsoft VirtualMidiSynth) and the sound driver to the DACBLAST.DRV, and set minimumMem=3600k and SMRTDRV=NO, inside the game's resource.cfg settings file, that all my bugs and freezes disappeared!

Hope this can help someone...!

I have many bug-like issues in GK2 also. However, your solution is undecipherable to me. Can you be more specific?
Thx

Open the resource.cfg file in the game directory with notepad, make the following changes, and then save:

1) change the midi driver to the GENMIDI.DRV
2) change the sound driver to the DACBLAST.DRV

This is what my resource.cfg looks like when open in notepad:

videoDrv = VESA.DRV
soundDrv = GENMIDI.DRV
audioDrv = DACBLAST.DRV
joyDrv = NO
cmd = GK2DOS
mouseDrv = NONE
memoryDrv = NONE
minMemory = 3600k
brightness = 0
language = 1
minCPU = 486
smartdrv = NO
language = 351

resAUD = .\
resSFX = .\
resMAP = .\
rescdisc = .\
patchDir = .\PATCHES
movieDir = .\movies
robot = .\robot

After that, go here and download and install CoolSoftVirtualMidiSynth:

http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en

Last, open your dosboxGK2.conf file in notepad and scroll to this line:

mididevice=default

*change* that line to read

mididevice=win32

then save. Run the game!