Silent Hunter 1

[Smaragdadler]

You don't need DosBox. The game runs well on XP. The only thing which makes trouble is the intro video:

SH and XP -
The point at which SH crashes is at the opening intro cines - if you manage to bypass that, SH will run quite well without any tweaks other than running it in Win95 compatibility mode. And the secret to bypass the intro scenes is simply by deleting the three relevant files in the cines directory - i.e. copyr.smk, logo444.smk and shin.smk. (This of course assumes you have the done a full install with all the cines files on the HD.) ...

more tips:
http://www.subsim.com/tips/tip_sh1.php