Application Details:
| Version: | Collectors Edition v1.60 |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.mightandmagic.com |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.9.21-staging |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Installation, one hour gameplay, single player missions.
What does not
Everything worked fine with some tricks explained later.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Campaign and Multiplayer.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
My specs and setup of the game: AMD A8 6600K APU but with NVIDIA Geforce GTX 750 TI in use. Installation: Using wine-staging 1.9.21 with virtual desktop but without the patches in winecfg activated. I created a clean 64bit wineprefix with WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.heroes5" WINEARCH=win64 wine wineboot and installed the game with WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.heroes5" WINEARCH=win64 wine /path/to/AutoRun.exe Installing the native dx9c from the dvd recommended. --------------------------- Executing: I disabled most of the gfx_features and played one hour without stuttering. Use page up and page down to scroll and Ctrl + arrow keys to move the camera. This configuration prevents this horrible stuttering, which made the game unplayable. Replace your config in $home/Documents/My Games/Heroes of Might and Magic V/Profiles/yourName/user.cfg with the following lines: //============================================================================ // generated by the game, please do not modify //============================================================================ setvar Options.Tooltips.HoverTimeout = 1 setvar Options.Tooltips.RightClickEnabled = 1 setvar adapter_to_use = 0 setvar adv_camera_mode = 2 setvar adventure_quick_combat = 0 setvar adventure_scroll_speed = 1 setvar adventure_speed_ai = 6 setvar adventure_speed_human = 6 setvar ai_time_limit = 180000 setvar alt_highlight_adventure_objects = 0 setvar app_always_active = 0 setvar autosave = 1 setvar camera_cinematic = 1 setvar capture_active = 0 setvar capture_end_frame = 0 setvar capture_framerate = 1000 setvar capture_start_frame = 0 setvar combat_ai_use_magic_for_human = 1 setvar combat_dynamic_mode = 0 setvar combat_new_autoplacing = 1 setvar combat_show_grid = 1 setvar combat_show_movement_shade = 1 setvar combat_show_target_shade = 1 setvar combat_time_factor = 3 setvar combat_transparent_walls = 1 setvar combat_turn_speed = 0 setvar combat_tutorial_autoexit = 1 setvar combat_tutorial_autostart = 1 setvar cool_path = 0 setvar custom_game_show_mp_maps = 0 setvar cutscene_altmusic = 0 setvar dm_connection_timeout = 20 setvar duel_realtime_default = 0 setvar duel_triple_heroes_default = 0 setvar duel_turnspeed_default = 0 setvar editor_camera_move_speed = 2 setvar editor_camera_rotate_speed = 2 setvar game_camerasensitivity = 1 setvar game_camerasensitivity_mouse = 1 setvar game_invertscrollx = 0 setvar game_invertscrollx_mouse = 0 setvar game_invertscrolly = 0 setvar game_invertscrolly_mouse = 0 setvar game_invertturnx = 0 setvar game_invertturnx_mouse = 0 setvar game_invertturny = 0 setvar game_invertturny_mouse = 0 setvar game_scrollsensitivity = 1 setvar game_scrollsensitivity_mouse = 1 setvar gfx_16bit_mode = 0 setvar gfx_16bit_textures = 0 setvar gfx_anisotropic_filter = 8 setvar gfx_ban_lags = 0 setvar gfx_depth_tex_resolution = 1024 setvar gfx_dynamic_lights = 0 setvar gfx_effect_alpha_treshold = 0 setvar gfx_fix_ban_np2 = 0 setvar gfx_fix_nv_np2_hack = 0 setvar gfx_frame_transition = 1 setvar gfx_fsaa = 4 setvar gfx_fullscreen = 1 setvar gfx_gamma = 0.5 setvar gfx_hsr = 0 setvar gfx_lag = 0 setvar gfx_lm_calc = 0 setvar gfx_lm_quality = 0 setvar gfx_lod_switch_distance = 300 setvar gfx_mapshot = 0 setvar gfx_nopixelshaders = 0 setvar gfx_noshadows = 0 setvar gfx_particles = 0 setvar gfx_quality = 0 setvar gfx_register_resolution = 1 setvar gfx_resolution = 1920x1080 setvar gfx_shadows_quality = 0 setvar gfx_static_nooverwrite = 0 setvar gfx_texture_mip = 0 setvar gfx_true_water_reflection = 0 setvar gfx_vsync = 0 setvar gfx_water_amplitude = 0.01 setvar gfx_water_frequence = 4000 setvar gfx_water_length = 5.13 setvar gfx_water_reflection = 0 setvar h5_simple_render = 1 setvar hero_trace = 1 setvar invert_camera = 1 setvar mission_camera_proj_center_x = 0 setvar mission_camera_proj_center_y = 0 setvar movement_reminder = 1 setvar net_load_timeout = 20 setvar net_multiplayer_init_timeout = 10 setvar net_ubicom_init_timeout = 10 setvar prefer_special_hero_trail = 0 setvar quick_combat_show_progress = 0 setvar quick_combat_step_limit = 100 setvar save_before_combat = 0 setvar select_campaign_mission_difficulty = 0 setvar shadow_on_trees = 1 setvar skip_adventure_flyby = 0 setvar sound_ambient_enable = 1 setvar sound_musicvolume = 0.399999 setvar sound_sfxvolume = 0.5 setvar special_win_x_pos = 0 setvar terra_quality = 0 setvar town_camerainvert_pitch = 0 setvar town_camerainvert_rotation = 0 setvar town_enable_flyby = 1 setvar tutorial_reset = 0 setvar tutorial_show = 1 setvar ui_announcement_duration = 3500 setvar ui_announcement_team_duration = 6000 setvar ui_map_coords_diplay_shift_x = 3 setvar ui_map_coords_diplay_shift_y = 0 setvar ui_open_atb_bar = 1 setvar ui_open_chat_in_game = 1 setvar ui_open_hero_town_list = 1 setvar ui_open_minimap = 1 setvar ui_open_res_bar = 1 setvar ui_use_hwcursor = 1 setvar view_state = 0 setvar window_x_pos = 0 setvar window_y_pos = 0
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Current | Arch Linux x86_64 | Nov 11 2016 | 1.9.21-staging | Yes | Yes | Gold | Maik Fischer | ||
| Show | Antergos | Dec 21 2015 | 1.8 | N/A | Yes | Gold | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Apr 07 2013 | 1.5.27 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Attila | ||
| Show | Mandriva 2010.2 x86_64 | Mar 02 2012 | 1.4-rc5 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Giovanni Mariani | ||
| Show | Fedora 13 | Jun 16 2010 | 1.2-rc3 | Yes | Yes | Platinum | Tommy He |
Do not set resolution setting IN GAME higher than 1024 x 768!
You may experiment only through Wines provided Configuration Window.
Otherwise - You will not be able to reset setting back to compatible. Only possible solution is to reinstall game to play it again.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
by hemligt on Monday July 3rd 2017, 18:05
In slackware that package would be called libtxc_dxtn-compat32-1.0.1-x86_64-1_SBocompat32.txz
by Marko on Saturday December 3rd 2016, 17:36
by Maik Fischer on Tuesday December 20th 2016, 13:01
unfortunately the game is still choppy when I lift the fog before with a cheat. However in Single Scenario it performs better than in Campaign. I retested this with wine 1.9.23 staging, but I hope for some major wine versions to fix this.
But adjusting the gamma settings works now in all games I have tested, which was not possible in previous wine versions.
I recommend also Arch as a Linux Distribution as it offers newer packages by default while still remaining quite stable. I get more games working with Arch (even Bioshock retail) as with an Ubuntu or Debian derivate (I guess you are using one, because you have mentioned the 1.6.2 version).
It's amazing that people are playing this game after so many years, it is a real goldie.
by Emmanuel Anne on Monday May 2nd 2016, 3:55
I made a few tests before posting, even tried a double_buffer patch for another game :
--- start ---
diff --git a/dlls/wined3d/buffer.c b/dlls/wined3d/buffer.c
index 8bb1f63..8f388ab 100644
--- a/dlls/wined3d/buffer.c
+++ b/dlls/wined3d/buffer.c
@@ -1499,6 +1499,8 @@ HRESULT buffer_init(struct wined3d_buffer *buffer, IWineD3DDeviceImpl *device,
buffer->flags |= WINED3D_BUFFER_CREATEBO;
}
+ buffer->flags |= WINED3D_BUFFER_DOUBLEBUFFER;
+
if (data)
{
BYTE *ptr;
--- end ---
this patch actually makes the animation choppy all the time, so the problem is probably related somehow to double buffer, but I can't say much more than that. The nvidia is a gtx 960, much enough to play this old game.
The good news is that the old adviced editions in user.cfg are not necessary anymore (gfx_ban_lags and gfx_nopixelshaders), there is no flickering anywhere and the picture is perfect, except this very heavy sync problem when it starts. I played with the other gfx_ settings in the config file but got no positive results to fix this. Setting gfx_ban_lags = 1 actually produces glitches in the picture.
It's with the gog version, the 3 extensions included, a 32 bit version.
by pasu on Thursday August 25th 2016, 15:44
The script basically brings out the video option (F4) and increase the anti-aliasing by 1, apply, then change it back by decreasing the AA by 1. So, the screen are fixed and actually nothing has changed.
by pasu on Friday August 26th 2016, 18:20
by hemligt on Wednesday April 30th 2014, 6:11
I run it at 1366x768 in wine 1.2.2 on slackware64 14.1 and everything works as far as i can tell.