Silent Hunter on XP

[Sgian Dubh]

Is there a way to get this to work?

I've tried a few times with no success. The game won't launch. I've tried the obvious options in XP.


Thanks,

SMB

[Letum]

You need to find a good DOS emulator.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Try here mate


http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...Hunter+Windows

[Smaragdadler]

in short: make a full install then delete copyr.smk,logo444.smk and skin.smk-files. That takes away the intro, but it should run fine from then...

[Hitman]

I'm making this post sticky and will try to add the other procedures mentioned in this forum (DOSBOX and others) when I can. Even though SH4 is around the corner, many people still seem willing to give this beautiful classic an opportunity on their HDDs

[Sgian Dubh]

Up and running. 27,000 sunk on first try.

man this is one fun game.

[richoahu]

:-(

as i waited for SH4 to download i decided to try this game out again. i deleted the files posted above, and set the game for windows 95. goto start the game, the little DOS box pops up, then goes away, and then nothing. no error, nothing. any ideas? or should i now try that DOS box thing someone else posted?

thanks for any help ;-)

[Sailor Steve]

They say the new version of DOSBox works like a charm.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=107248

[rman214]

Did a full install of SH1 commander's edition and deleted the intro files so it would work on xp, game loads and is workable but the color is way overdone everything is psycadelic looking. Is there any way to tone down the color?

[Major Johnson]

Originally Posted by Smaragdadler

in short: make a full install then delete copyr.smk,logo444.smk and skin.smk-files. That takes away the intro, but it should run fine from then...

I tried that and got the following error message when trying to start the game:
"C:\Silent\SH.EXE
C:\Progra~1\Symantec\S32EVNT1.DLL. An Installable Virtual Device Driver failed Dll initialization. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application."

The weird thing is that I don't have a Symantec directory under program files, or anywhere for that matter! Any ideas?? Thanks.

[Hitman]

Is your antivirus enabled when you start the game? It might consider an emulated DOS process a threat to the system and block it:hmm:

[Major Johnson]

Originally Posted by Hitman

Is your antivirus enabled when you start the game? It might consider an emulated DOS process a threat to the system and block it:hmm:

Yes but it's not Norton's. I use AVG. But I used to have Norton's Systemworks installed, but I uninstalled it. That was like a year and a half ago.

Anyway, I did a little research on Norton's and downloaded an uninstall program, which I ran. Rebooted, same error message. Then I went through the registry and did a search and deleted all the entries that had Symantec in it. Then when I tried to run SH I got a different error:
C:\Silent\SH.EXE
System\CurrentControlSet\Control\VirtualDeviceDriv ers. VDD. Virtual Device Driver format in the registry is invalid.

Maybe I should run a chkdsk from my XP cd to replace anything I should not have deleted. But unless my system becomes unstable, which right now the only problem I'm having is with SH1, I'm not gonna go that route.

[MaxT.dk]

Is it possible to run it windowed?

[Hitman]

In DOSBOX yes, which is quite handy for doing some stuff menawhile (E-mail reading, internet browsing and such) but you are limited to a 640x480 window (Original game resolution) which is very small in a modern screen. I think there are options to make it beigger, but I have not messed with them as I played in full screen:hmm:

[MaxT.dk]

Hmm yeh... I'm @ 22" flat widescreen panel and 640x480 will look way too smal :/