Application Details:
Version: | Complete: 4.0 |
License: | Retail |
URL: | |
Votes: | 3 |
Latest Rating: | Gold |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.9.21 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Everything. Single/Multiplayer, campaign, Wog, TE, pure 4.0 version.
What does not
Game crashes on multiplayer game exit.
Alt tab (workaround - launch the game in virtual desktop)Workarounds
What was not tested
Multiplayer game joining.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Joining a multiplayer game was not tested. Only hosting which works (with hamachi TCP/IP game) Gold because directplay dlls are needed for multiplayer.
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Oct 16 2016 | 1.9.21 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | Eryk Zaplata | |
Show | Rosa Desktop Fresh R6 (2014.1) | Dec 06 2015 | 1.8-rc3 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Giovanni Mariani | |
Show | Mac OS X 10.11 "El Capitan" | Nov 22 2015 | 1.6.2 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | an anonymous user | |
Current | Arch Linux x86_64 | May 31 2013 | 1.5.31 | N/A | Yes | No | Gold | Dheart | |
Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Dec 10 2012 | 1.5.19 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Serge Hooge |
Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
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 The old howto had a link pointing to outdated directplay dlls which cause problems with wine and generally don't work as expected.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:
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.