Silent Hunter on XP

dannygjk · 05-26-08, 07:22 PM

btw, I tried, (against my better judgement, (25+ years experience)), the suggestion of full install of SH1 then delete the 3 cine files listed in the instructions. XP crashed, (XP Pro SP3). I had to restore to the previous day and reinstall the graphics driver to fix the system. As usual, a dos program screwed up the modern file system.

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Originally Posted by goldorak

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Originally Posted by jtm55

Hi All,

Another option is to install Microsoft Virtual PC. Either 2004 or 2007. With this option you need either Windows 95 or 98 operating systems. I installed Microsoft Virtual PC & then Windows 98. Afterwards, I installed Silent Hunter Commanders Edition. The game runs perfectly. My operating system is XP Pro. So for those of you that either have Windows 95 or 98 laying around, I highly recommend that you go to the Microsoft site & download Microsoft Virtual PC, as it's a free download.

Man this is just overkill to get silent hunter 1 working on windows xp.
Really, all you need to install is dosbox a meager 5MB program and then install SHI directly over it.
Job done, the game can run windowed or full screen at full speed.