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Heroes of Might and Magic III

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A package containing the original and all expansions.

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Version: Complete: 4.0
License: Retail
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Votes: 3
Latest Rating: Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested: 1.9.21

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Tested on: Acer TravelMate 2490 Intel Celeron M420 1.6 GHz 2 GB DDR2 RAM Intel GMA 950 (Tungsten Graphics, Inc Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM) Realtek ALC883 OS Fedora 17 (32 bit)

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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 
ShowArch Linux x86_64Dec 10 20121.5.19Yes Yes NoSilverSerge Hooge 

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 The old howto had a link pointing to outdated directplay dlls which cause problems with wine and generally don't work as expected.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