Originally Posted by Unregistered_01

The answer comes late (3 years). But I just digged up this game out of my archive and confronted the same problem: CTD in crows nest view.

You dont need a virtual machine for this to work. The problem is most probably cause because you have a multi core CPU and XP loves to switch the CPU assignment of an application while its running, efficiently messing up many old games like Deus Ex (ironically another EIDOS product) and Cutthroats.

The solution is to permanently set the CPU affinity of an application. For this you will need a small application like "IMGCFG" (google it), that will allow you to assign a CPU to the application.

Everything is documented in the readme file, but I'll give you an example of the command line you will need to type in a DOSbox or RUN:

imagecfg -a 0x2 "c:\games\cutthroats\cutthroats.exe"