Hearts of Iron III

What works

Install Patch Installation Expansion Installation Gameplay

What does not

Exiting the Game. The game crashes with a segfault when exiting the game sometimes becoming a zombie process.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Multiplayer

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Install the game: Cancel .NET Installer Cancel DirectX Installer Cancel MSVC Redistributable Install MSVC Runtime("vcrun2005") with winetricks Install MS DirectX 9 dlls("d3dx9") with winetricks Install MS .NET Framework 2.0 ("dotnet20") with winetricks Set (string) HKCU/Software/Wine/Direct3D/VideoMemorySize to the size of your video card's memory (e.g. "512") via "wine regedit" Set (string) HKCU/Software/Wine/DirectSound/MaxShadowSize to "0" via "wine regedit" Make sure the Windows version is set to Windows XP via "winecfg" Optional: Install Patches Optional: Install Semper-Fi Expansion Play the game (hoi3.exe = launcher, hoi3game.exe = direct entry) wine hoi3game.exe If you get this error err:module:import_dll Library d3dx9_41.dll (which is needed by L"I:\\Paradox Interactive\\Hearts of Iron III\\hoi3game.exe") not found Then just remove the dll override for this dll with winecfg but do not remove the file. Admin note: rating changed to conform to the rating definitions.

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

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"

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.