In Alone in the Dark block the window with cupboard and other entry with chest. That's for starters:)

Just crashing on start, with or without patch, even with "force software" mode checked, even with disabled acceleraton for video and sound in dxdiag. Maybe someone managed to run it?

BTW, there are a number of fan-made visual enhancement patches, which improve game greatly IMO. Check ttlg.com for example.

I've ran it In DosBox with dos32a, yes, but i don't know was it with dynamic core or not. 3-5 FPS:( I think dosbox is best suited for older games. BTW, has anyone compared dosbox with VirtualPC speed-wise?

Did you try to run setup in Win95 compatibility mode?

It's a DOS-based game (through DOS4GW) and it ran perfectly in 9x family. In XP in various compatibility modes it locks up after Dos4gw title. I've tried disabling sound and replacing Dos4gw with Dos32a, same result. In DosBox it runs, but unplayable (slow), probably because it runs at resolutions …