Silent Hunter 1 on Vista

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Originally Posted by bmtabd

Greetings to all,

Laptop: Gateway MT3705, Core duo 1.73mhz, 2 gig RAM, 100 gig HD, ATI Radeon Xpress 200m with 64 meg dedicated and up to 256 shared.

I have always enjoyed SH1 on my Dell 600m with Windows XP. The Dell died and I now have the above described laptop with Windows Vista. Not possible to install XP since this is a new laptop with only Vista drivers written. Have used Don Wells' SH1 work around to get SH1 working under XP.

Current laptop too slow (Radeon Xpress 200m the culprit) to play SH4. (purchased game, tried, way too low frames per second to play.)

Vista does not have a full screen DOS window and will not allow install of SH1. Does anyone know if it is possible to install SH1 on Vista, and if so, how?

Much appreciated for any input.

Mike

I haven't tried it yet (I'll be updrading one on my pc's to Vista in the next week), but I've read that DosBox 0.70 runs well under Vista, that's what I use to run Silent Hunter on XP, it works very well. You might want to give that a try.