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Hearts of Iron III 1.x



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NameHearts of Iron III
Version1.x
License Retail
URLhttp://www.heartsofirongame.co...
Votes 8
Link Patch & Update Download
RatingGold
Wine Version1.3.35
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Description
Version 1
Old test results
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Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)

What works

Everything single player.

Followed the reccomended installation with winetricks and regedit

Played for about 60 hours.


What does not

Some sound issues:

* On random occasions sound becomes intermittent then ceases for short periods of time (ranges from frequent to rare, unknown reason).

* While the sound problems appear, the game slows down considerably.

* Rare crashes (4 in total of ~60 hrs) that may be attributed to the game (v1.3 some crashes still reported on windows)


What was not tested
multiplayer


Additional Comments

Unable to comment on performance due to widely different OS setups.
It seems close to the windows performance, which will gradually degrade with playtime (restart to fix).

Admin note: rating changed to conform to the rating definitions.
Test Results
DistributionTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?RatingSubmitter
ShowArch LinuxDec 30 20111.3.35 Yes Yes Gold an anonymous user 
ShowopenSUSE 11.4 x86_64Dec 23 20111.3.34 Yes Yes Gold Nathan 
ShowUbuntu 11.04 "Natty" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jul 26 20111.3.25 Yes Yes Gold ReCon 
ShowUbuntu 10.04 "Lucid" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Aug 22 20101.3.0 Yes Yes Gold an anonymous user 
ShowFuntoo Linux AMD64Aug 13 20101.3.0 Yes Yes Silver Shaumyadeep Chaudhuri 

Known bugs
Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
19698 Hearts of Iron III (Retail & Demo) crashes NEW View
19868 Hearts of Iron III - unhandled mouse shadow UNCONFIRMED View
19979 Hearts of Iron III crashes UNCONFIRMED View
26688 Risen needs 10 functions from vcomp.dll NEW View

 
(OUTDATET) HOWTO play Hearts of Iron III

  1. Install the game:
    • Cancel .NET Installer
    • Cancel DirectX Installer
    • Install MSVC Redistributable
  2. Install MS DirectX 9 ("directx9") with winetricks
  3. Install MS .NET Framework 2.0 ("dotnet20") with winetricks
  4. Set (string) HKCU/Software/Wine/Direct3D/VideoMemorySize to the size of your video card's memory (e.g. "512") via "wine regedit"
  5. Set (string) HKCU/Software/Wine/DirectSound/MaxShadowSize to "0" via "wine regedit"
  6. Make sure the Windows version is set to Windows XP via "winecfg" (seems to work best)
  7. Optional: Install Patch v1.1 manually (launcher update does not work)
  8. Optional: Install Hotfix v1.1c manually (launcher update does not work)
  9. Play the game (hoi3.exe = launcher, hoi3game.exe = direct entry)

 

­Note: For more information on how to use winetricks, visit the WineWiki
­Note: A step-by-step HowTo can be found in the Paradox Interactive Forums

 
Note
Some users are reporting you may have to set some more Registry Keys in order to experience better results (e.g. borders drawn incorrectly). You may try these:

in HKCU/Software/Wine/Direct3D/
  • DirectDrawRenderer to "opengl"
  • OffscreenRenderingMode to "backbuffer"
  • OffscreenRenderingMode to "pbuffer"
  • OffscreenRenderingMode to "fbo"
  • PixelShaderMode to "enabled"
  • VideoMemorySize to the size of your video memory (e.g. "512")
in HKCU/Software/Wine/DirectSound/
  • MaxShadowSize to "0"

 
WARNING
­The game needs hardware supporting Pixel Shader 2 to run!­

 
HOWTO play Hearts of Iron III (+ AddOns)
1. Install the game inclusive the optional AddOns. If the installation process also wants to install DirectX, Visual C++ and / or .NET, cancel all these installations!


2. Install the dependencies of the game with winetricks: winetricks vcrun2005 directx9 dotnet20
NOTE: If you also have the "For the Motherland" AddOn installed, you need to do an additional "winetricks vcrun2010" to get the latest dependencies, too.


3. Open regedit (for e. g. type it in a terminal) and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D/ and make a new entry which is called:

VideoMemorySize

as the value enter your amount of video memory (MB), for e. g. 256 or 512.

as Next, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/DirectSound/ and make again a new entry:

MaxShadowSize

and set as the value: 0.


4. Open winecfg an go to the libraries tab an delete out the "quartz.dll".


That's it, you're ready to play. You can additionaly patch the game.

 

The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.

Semper Fi expansion crash
by Aapo Alasuutari on Sunday January 2nd 2011, 9:01
Bought HoI 3 and the Semper Fi expansion from Steam a while ago but I ran into a problem. After following the install guide up ^ there (Could not install .NET due to winetricks not having possibility for 64bit .NET, I have 64bit-enabled wine.) I managed to start the game up and could actually start a new game, choose the country and all that.
But once I actually get into the game, the map initializes and all that the game crashes. Pastebay'd the console output after startup of the game.

pastebay.com/113107

Anyone else have the same problem? Any idea what could cause it, what could help? I have tried setting OffscreenRendering to both fbo and backbuffer.

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I cant get wine to run hoi3
by Jens Hansen on Saturday October 31st 2009, 7:56
Have tried everything. Ubuntu 32 bit. Ubuntu 64 bit. Stander wine from repo, compling myself from source.

Allways the samme error, somthing about vcomp.dll

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Wine and HOI3
by Rob on Saturday October 17th 2009, 19:52
Where do I download wine so I can install it, I am running Windows XP Media Edition Sevice Pak 3.

as far as HOI3
I have the 1.2 installed and I just got the game and it crashes when it gets to Map Properly initialized, I don't like dealing with my cpu setting so please help me and be very specific on where to go....

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Game Crashes
by PatrickB on Tuesday September 22nd 2009, 16:46
Hi,

I just picked up Hearts of Iron III, having enjoyed I and II, and I seem to be encountering a bug talked about here.

Starting the game, I reach the point of "Creating the World", the things runs a couple minutes more, and crashes me to my desktop.

I'm running a P4 2.4 Dell with a gig of memory, a Nvidia GE Force 7600 GT card.

I am not real knowledgable about computer stuff, and am stuck with a game that doesnt work. Any suggestions?

I've tried reinstalling, patching to the current version of the game.

Always exactly the same thing happens.

Thanks much,
Patrick

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Gnome The Workspace Switcher
by Bersa on Friday September 11th 2009, 8:32
Hello, world! :-)

HOI3 works nice. No crashes, lags etc. Only one annoying thing: always crashes when I switch to another desk. No matter fullscreen or windowed mode.

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Loading crash at
by K on Saturday August 29th 2009, 13:22
Hey, I did EXACTLY what howto says, i tried everything, every wine/registry configuration posted here and there, always the same situation the game starts to load (i hear the music as well) but when the load screen gets to "Map properly initialized" it crashes.

Terminal output here: freetexthost.com/sd1eec1e6o

My specs: ubuntu 9.04 32bit, geforce 9800gt 1gb driver version 180.44

Any help appreciated, thank you

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Also unable to start game
by Hickin on Monday August 24th 2009, 13:58
Hello, before I had the other problem mentioned below but I changed WM (think e17 tricked Wine to think I was uing Arch linux 64) and now I get another error which I cant handle.

I install the game, decline directX, accept MSCV and decline .NET.
Then I add the strings in regedit:

in Direct3D
- DirectDrawRenderer to opengl
- OffscreenRenderingMode to backbuffer
- PixelShaderMode to enabled
- VideoMemorySize to 640

in Directsound
- MaxShadowSize to 0

Then after that I was going to install directX9 from winetricks but the first line tells me something like "Dont use this, unstable. Use Wine3D3 instead" So I did.
After that I included dotnet20 from winetricks.

The game doesnt run after this, it only outputs:

fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32e110,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32e1c4,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Add OpenGL context recreation support to SetDepthStencilSurface

Ive tried to located some general solution but I couldnt find any.

Also Ive tried to do all the things above and go with directX9 from winetricks instead but I got the same result. I did also try to add MSCV2005sp1 from winetricks, then I got the error metioned below.

Ive got AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+, 2.6.30-ARCH
and GeForce 8800 GTS 640mb with NVIDIA Driver Version: 173.14.20

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Cannot run the game
by Jepaan on Monday August 17th 2009, 13:24
Followed the installation instruction. Recieves following error:

wine hoi3game.exe
fixme:ntdll:NtPowerInformation semi-stub: SystemExecutionState
fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC80.OpenMP" (8.0.50727.762)
err:module:import_dll Library vcomp.dll (which is needed by L"D:\\Games\\HoI3\\hoi3game.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"D:\\Games\\HoI3\\hoi3game.exe" failed, status c0000135

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Cannot install
by Paolo on Sunday August 16th 2009, 12:11
Hi there, thanks for this useful wiki. But I've got a problem. I installed all the stuff with winetricks, but when I launch the installer (setup.exe), I get this error message: "An installation support file 'C:\Programs\Common Files\InstallShield\Engine\6\Intel32\' could not be installed (0x80070032).

I installed msi2, too, supposing it was necessary but nothing changed.
Using last wine version (1.1.27).

Any ideas?

Being here, what about performances? I tried the game under Vista and it's not really fluid (although 4 GB ram + a 2,5 GHz dualcore), I hope wine doesn't introduce too much overhead..

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no borders
by Karol Czerlonek on Sunday August 16th 2009, 2:42
Hi, I started with new WINEPREFIX, went step by step after Daniels instructions and the game works fine, but there is problem with borders. I tried to set HCKU/Software/Wine/Direct3D/OffscreenRenderingMode to pbuffer like Cadarin Durango said, but I got an error after "Map Properly Initialized" when starting the game.


fixme:d3d:context_apply_draw_buffer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GL_INVALID_OPERATION (0x502) from glDrawBuffer() @ context.c / 1957
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000024 at address 0x7eac4b04 (thread 0009), starting debugger...


Do I need to install some extra stuff with winetricks to get pbuffer working?
Or maybe some other idea what is wrong?

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