Heroes of Might and Magic IV

The original release with updates applied.

Application Details:

Version:	1.0-3.0
License:	Retail
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Votes:	0
Latest Rating:	Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested:	1.3.13

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Test Results

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What works

Almost everything. Gameplay, all sounds and music, videos and multiplayer (needs DLL overrides for DirectPlay) via TCP/IP using Hamachi. Problems with multilplayer.

What does not

Multiplayer is unstable, it disconnects randomly (receiving some Wine error dialogs then disconnecting from game), sometimes causes infinite hangs (then need to kill the game), I don't know the reason. I played via TCP/IP using Hamachi (version 2.0.1.13, beta quality).

Workarounds

What was not tested

Longer gameplay.

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

Admin note: rating changed to conform to the rating definitions.

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	openSUSE 11.4 x86_64	Feb 16 2011	1.3.13	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	marc bessieres
Current	Debian GNU/Linux 6.x "Squeeze"	May 18 2011	1.2.2	Yes	Yes	No	Silver	firencombomaster
Show	Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Dec 10 2010	1.2.2	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	an anonymous user
Show	Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Aug 10 2010	1.2	No, but has workaround	Yes	No	Bronze	an anonymous user
Show	Debian GNU/Linux 6.x "Squeeze"	Jul 27 2009	1.1.24	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	Cùran

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
6847	DirectPlay metabug. Implement dplay tcp/ip provider.	NEW		View

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HowTo / Notes

HOWTO

The game does not run correctly in Wine 0.9.37. Earlier and newer versions work fine

This game requires a crack to work.

Installing the patches is highly recommended, as they provide fixes for serious bugs in the game (not Wine related).

There are different patches for the different versions of the game

UK - various

Multiplayer
To get multiplayer working, place dpnsvr.exe and the DLLs in this archive in Wine's windows/system32 directory. Then, start winecfg and add dll overrides (native, builtin) for the following DLLs: dplayx, dpnet, dpnhpast and dpwsockx. Finally, update your registry by running 'wineprefixcreate'.

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