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Hearts of Iron III

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Application Details:

Version: 1.x
License: Retail
URL: http://www.heartsofirongame.co...
Votes: 11
Latest Rating: Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested: 1.3.35

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Test Results

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What works

Everything

What does not

Background music does not play.

Works well, with the exception of background music which is sometimes choppy or does not play at all.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Multiplayer.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

  • GPU:
  • Driver:

Additional Comments

The game itself is unstable and needs to be patched before playing (same issue while running in Windows)

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?		RatingSubmitter
ShowArch LinuxDec 30 20111.3.35Yes Yes Goldan anonymous user 
ShowopenSUSE 11.4 x86_64Dec 23 20111.3.34Yes Yes GoldNathan 
ShowUbuntu 11.04 "Natty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jul 26 20111.3.25Yes Yes GoldReCon 
CurrentUbuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Aug 22 20101.3.0Yes Yes Goldan anonymous user 
ShowFuntoo Linux AMD64Aug 13 20101.3.0Yes Yes Silveran anonymous user 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
19698 Hearts of Iron III (Retail & Demo) crashes CLOSED ABANDONED View
19868 Hearts of Iron III - unhandled mouse shadow CLOSED ABANDONED View
19979 Hearts of Iron III crashes CLOSED DUPLICATE View
22334 Hearts of Iron III - missing texture on initial window CLOSED FIXED View
22396 Hearts of Iron III - Texture brushes are not sized/aligned properly CLOSED FIXED View
22925 Hearts of Iron III demo - crashes on startup (-O0 vs -O2) CLOSED INVALID View
22931 Hearts of Iron III - loader doesn't show HTML content CLOSED FIXED View
24899 The Last Dance crashes with unimplemented function d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXCreateRenderToSurface CLOSED FIXED View
25366 Sacred 2 Fallen Angel requires d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXSaveTextureToFileA CLOSED FIXED View
26688 Multiple games crashes on unimplemented function vcomp.dll.omp_init_lock (Risen, Hearts of Iron III demo) CLOSED FIXED View
30559 Several apps started rendering some fonts incorrectly (appear as huge font sizes have been used) CLOSED FIXED View

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HowTo / Notes

(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.

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