Heroes of Might and Magic III

All versions (2.0-2.2) of the first expansion pack.

Application Details:

Version:	Armageddon's Blade: 2.x
License:	Retail
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Votes:	1
Latest Rating:	Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested:	1.1.8

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What works

Everything: playing, saving, loading, fullscreen, playing with virtual desktop, playing with noCD, playing with original CD-ROM, multiplayer, map and campaign editor.

What does not

After long time of playing the game will probably crashes with an "Invalid address" error, it happens with most of the Windows applications for FreeBSD because of a broken Wine version... Use wine 1.1.7 and wait for 1.1.9..

Workarounds

What was not tested

multiplayer

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

My version Armageddon's Blade is distributed by Buka Entertainment for Russia. I used wine 1.1.7 + DirectX 9.0c. Original BSD 7.0 driver does not work with dsound.dll. Install OSS driver from opensound.com and enjoy!

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Nov 15 2008	1.1.8	Yes	Yes		Gold	an anonymous user
Current	FreeBSD 7.0	Nov 20 2008	1.1.7	Yes	Yes		Gold	an anonymous user
Show	Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Aug 04 2008	1.1.2	Yes	Yes		Gold	Zhenya
Show	Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Apr 05 2008	0.9.58.	Yes	Yes		Gold	Zhenya
Show	Slackware 12.0	Jan 02 2008	0.9.49.	Yes	Yes		Gold	affect

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 The old howto had a link pointing to outdated directplay dlls which cause problems with wine and generally don't work as expected.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

Place the following dplayx.dll, dpnet.dll, dpnhpast.dll, dpwockx.dll, dplaysvr.exe in your .wine/drive_c/windows/system32
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.

HOWTO

Upgrade to the latest version to avoid the copy protection.

Fixing performance problems

If you encounter performance problems (lagging sound or slow animation), try changing HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D\DirectDrawRenderer key value from gdi to opengl. For additional info check this page http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys

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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