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Heroes of Might and Magic III

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A package containing the original and all expansions.

Application Details:

Version: Complete: 4.0
License: Retail
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Votes: 3
Latest Rating: Platinum
Latest Wine Version Tested: 10.0-rc3

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What works

Singleplayer Maps, Modifications

What does not

The sound is incredibly choppy, the data CD won't recognize itself, so Campaigns are unplayable.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Multiplayer

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

Only works with a No-CD (as the CD is not being detected) and a H3 HD installed, otherwise hangs within seconds.

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?		RatingSubmitter
ShowLinux Mint 21.3Dec 22 202410.0-rc3Yes Yes NoPlatinumScarabyte 
ShowArch Linux x86_64Oct 16 20161.9.21Yes Yes NoGoldEryk Zaplata 
ShowRosa Desktop Fresh R6 (2014.1)Dec 06 20151.8-rc3Yes Yes NoPlatinumGiovanni Mariani 
ShowMac OS X 10.11 "El Capitan"Nov 22 20151.6.2Yes Yes NoGoldan anonymous user 
ShowArch Linux x86_64May 31 20131.5.31N/A Yes NoGoldDheart 

Known Bugs

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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 The old howto had a link pointing to outdated directplay dlls which cause problems with wine and generally don't work as expected.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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