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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: Platinum
Latest Wine Version Tested: 8.12

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

Test Results

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What works

First, everything I tested except creature generators worked.

What does not

The creature generators will not react on mouse clicks. There are two workarounds to this issue:

1. Press ALT+Tab every time mouse becomes unresponsive. This is annoying, so luckily there's another solution.

2. Emulate a virtual desktop with 800x600 resolution. This will not always solve it, so you should also uncheck "Allow the window manager to control windows".

Workarounds

What was not tested

Multiplayer, not even hot seat.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

  • GPU:
  • Driver:

Additional Comments

The solution is confirmed by me.

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?		RatingSubmitter
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 
ShowLinux Mint 18 "Sarah" x86_64Dec 03 20161.9.23Yes Yes NoPlatinuman anonymous user 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
27419 Mouse problem in Heroes of Might and Magic 3 CLOSED FIXED View
29129 HOMM3 (from GOG.com) installs, but does not start on Intel video card CLOSED NOTOURBUG View
34166 Fullscreen flickering on Mac RESOLVED NOTOURBUG View
50217 Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (GOG) TCP/IP game does not work (winetricks needs to set dplaysvr.exe to native) CLOSED 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 The old howto had a link pointing to outdated directplay dlls which cause problems with wine and generally don't work as expected.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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