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Heroes of Might and Magic II

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The Gold version, which includes the expansion pack, 'The Price of Loyalty'

Application Details:

Version: Gold: 1.0
License: Retail
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Votes: 1
Latest Rating: Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested: 8.0

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Test Results

Selected Test Results

What works

  • Films
  • Gameplay (single machine / hot seat)
  • Sound effects
  • MIDI music

What does not

  • The game fails to start at first run, it has to be alt-tab'ed out of and back again or started once without the CD
  • CD audio froze the game, but this could be due to very old CD


Workarounds

  • The game fails to start at first run, it has to be alt-tab'ed out of and back again or started once without the CD
  • The game has to be run from a 32 bit Wine prefix with compatibility set to Windows 98, and the graphics setting to trap mouse cursor in full-screen windows has to be enabled

What was not tested

  • Network play
  • Level editor

Hardware tested

Graphics:

  • GPU: Intel
  • Driver: open source

Additional Comments

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?		RatingSubmitter
CurrentopenSUSE Leap 15.4Jun 15 20248.0Yes Yes YesGoldAlexander Nicolaysen Sørnes 
ShowRosa Desktop Fresh R6 (2014.1)Jan 26 20172.0Yes Yes NoPlatinumGiovanni Mariani 
ShowArch Linux x86_64Jul 02 20161.9.13Yes Yes NoGoldRoma Kovalev 
ShowRosa Desktop Fresh R6 (2014.1)Dec 06 20151.8-rc3Yes Yes NoGoldGiovanni Mariani 
ShowArch LinuxSep 16 20111.3.27Yes Yes NoSilveran anonymous user 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
7471 Multiple games display incorrect cursor icons since Wine 0.9.29 (Tropico, Heroes of Might and Magic I & II) CLOSED FIXED View
11544 Audio problems with Heroes II and ALSA Driver CLOSED FIXED View
25233 SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition : graphical issues CLOSED FIXED View
34731 parts of screen are black in heroes of might and magic 2 CLOSED WORKSFORME View
35992 Heroes of Might & Magic II Gold (GOG.com, Windows version) doesn't allow you to choose/play CD music (in the GOG.com version these are Ogg Vorbis files) CLOSED DUPLICATE View
36018 Heroes of Might & Magic 2: on the screen where you build new buildings there's no animation unless the cursor is moving (if ddr=opengl, Mac OS X only bug) UNCONFIRMED View
36019 Heroes of Might & Magic 2: the screen before a battle turns black for a while (if ddr=opengl, Mac OS X only bug) UNCONFIRMED View
42895 Heroes of Might and Magic II Gold - possible problems NEW View

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HowTo / Notes

HOWTO
If the game only shows a black screen, try starting it without the CD first (this should only have to be done once).

Comments

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Needs 32 bit prefix
by Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes on Saturday June 15th 2024, 10:35
You have to run the game in a 32 bit wine prefix with the Windows version set to Windows 98. This can be achieved with winetricks: wiki.winehq.org/Winetricks

Then, open winecfg and set the Windows version to Windows 98, then navigate to Graphics tab and select to always trap the cursor in full screen windows

For me enabling CD audio crashed the game
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