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Heroes of Might and Magic III

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A package containing the original and all expansions, gog.com version.

Application Details:

Version: Complete (gog.com version)
License: Retail
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Votes: 1
Latest Rating: Garbage
Latest Wine Version Tested: 9.16

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Free Download One needs to buy the game from gog.com in order to download

Test Results

Selected Test Results

What works

Offline installer partly works. At least it installs all necessary files but it does not exit gracefully.

Map editor seems to work

Campaign editor seems to work

What does not

Heroes3.exe immediately crashes

0024:err:seh:NtRaiseException Unhandled exception code c0000409 flags 1 addr 0x7b241f30

GOG installer does not work. It starts downloading but then somehow fails. did not try harder as the offline installer did it's job.


Workarounds

What was not tested

did not test Map editor and Campaign editor except startup

did not test uninstaller

Hardware tested

Graphics:

  • GPU: Intel
  • Driver: open source

Additional Comments

Tried setting wine prefix to Win 7 and win XP, did not help.

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?		RatingSubmitter
CurrentManjaro Linux 24.1.0Dec 02 20249.16Yes No NoGarbageJPT 
ShowFedora 37 x86_64Aug 20 20238.12Yes Yes NoPlatinumJonathan Bouchard 
ShowArch Linux x86_64Mar 19 20216.4Yes Yes YesSilverYaroslav Nikitenko 
ShowGentoo Linux x86_64Jan 02 20215.22Yes Yes NoPlatinumWilliam J May 
ShowFreeBSD 11.0 x86_64Jan 09 20171.8.6Yes Yes NoPlatinumSerge Hooge 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
34166 Fullscreen flickering on Mac RESOLVED NOTOURBUG View

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HowTo / Notes

HOWTO

Multiplayer
To get multiplayer working, you need native directplay dlls. The old howto had a link pointing to outdated directplay dlls which cause problems with wine and generally don't work as expected. However with the latest dplay from DirectX 9.0c multiplayer is (almost - see note for details) flawless.
In the wine wiki is described how to get native direct play dlls.
Personally I would recommend using winetricks directplay which installs dplay dlls and sets overwrite in winecfg, however you may choose do install manually those files in which case you need to:

  1. Place the following dplayx.dll, dpnet.dll, dpnhpast.dll, dpwockx.dll, dplaysvr.exe in your .wine/drive_c/windows/system32
  2. Set those files to overwrite (native, builtin) in winecfg

NOTES: The game always freezes when exiting a multiplayer game.
Sometimes when you host a TCP/IP game, no one is able to connect (any client trying receives an "IP address not found" error.) In this case just rehost and the problem will be gone.

 

NOTE: Heroes3HD and HD+

You can now play Heroes 3 in HD, utilizing the full size of your screen, thanks to Heroes3HD mod. It doesn't change anything gameplay wise.

With recent Wine releases, Wine prefixes are set to Windows 7. Currently, it causes rendering issues when HD or HD+ mod are installed.

Running winecfg and setting the Windows version to Windows XP solves the rendering issues.

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