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Heroes of Might and Magic III

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All versions (1.0-1.4) of the original Heroes III, without any expansions.

Application Details:

Version: The Restoration of Erathia: 1.x
License: Retail
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Votes: 2
Latest Rating: Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested: 1.7.9

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Link Download patch 1.0-1.4 Link Download other patches Link New maps

Test Results

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Selected Test Results

What works

- Installation - Single Player - Sound!!! - Campaigns - Campaign Videos - Map Editor - Loading Saves

What does not

- Every once in a while, the game will freeze up and require a force quit. Thankfully this game has an autosave every turn.

Workarounds

What was not tested

- All Maps and Campaigns (There are a lot of them) - Multiplayer (sadly, no one plays this game anymore)

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

The infrequent game freezes are the only reason I give this game a Silver; otherwise, I would rate it Platinum. I will eventually file a Bugzilla report to get it fixed.

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?		RatingSubmitter
ShowUbuntu 13.10 "Saucy" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Dec 30 20131.7.9Yes Yes NoGoldMarc Mettke 
ShowUbuntu 12.04 "Precise" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Mar 05 20131.4.1Yes Yes NoPlatinuman anonymous user 
CurrentFedora 13Oct 18 20101.3.4Yes Yes NoSilverBrilguaz 
ShowUbuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Dec 05 20091.1.32Yes Yes NoBronzean anonymous user 
ShowDebian GNU/Linux Unstable "Sid" x86_64Jun 13 20091.1.23Yes Yes NoGoldNicolarius 

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 The old howto had a link pointing to outdated directplay dlls which cause problems with wine and generally don't work as expected.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

  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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