Application Details:
| Version: | Horn of the Abyss |
| License: | Free to use and share |
| URL: | |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Platinum |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 6.1 |
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What works
Campaign, skirmish maps, new features.
What does not
Playing the game without the HD patch. See extra comments.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Multiplayer, which is known not to work out of the box, see footnotes to various versions to get that working.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
The game does start and works without the HD patch for a while, but randomly crashes with different errors, some of which do not get logged. HD patch fixes all the crashing problems. Make sure you create an HD executable for HotA, the launcher can't enable HD for HotA without it. The HD Patch can be obtained from https://sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/eng/download
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Manjaro Linux 20.2 | Feb 10 2021 | 6.1 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Dispossessed Spirit | |
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux Testing "Bullseye" | Sep 29 2020 | 5.0.2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | elk aide | |
| Current | FreeBSD 11.0 x86_64 | Jan 12 2017 | 1.8.6 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Serge Hooge | ||
| Show | Linux Mint 18 "Sarah" x86_64 | Dec 09 2016 | 1.9.24 | Yes | Yes | Platinum | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Mac OS X 10.11 "El Capitan" | Aug 13 2016 | 1.8.3 | Yes | Yes | Silver | an anonymous user |
TCP/IP Multiplayer
Follow these steps to get traditional TCP/IP multiplayer working:
1. Install directplay dlls as described here.
1.1 Manual install is also possible. Steps are:
2. Remove DPWSOCKX.DLL from the core game folder (where the .exe files are located).
This workaround was suggested and is described in detail in the comment to a related bug report.
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