HGL
Heroic Games Launcher•17mo ago
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heroes of might & magic book 1

I can't start the game from the title screen - it tells you to press ESC (works) and then to press ENTER (which doesn't work). Possible incorrect dosbox conf from heroic? i don't have much dosbox experience so all help appreciated!
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plain-purple
plain-purpleOP•17mo ago
ambitious-aqua
ambitious-aqua•17mo ago
Remove the environment options
united-yellow
united-yellow•17mo ago
disable and enable dxvk
plain-purple
plain-purpleOP•17mo ago
didn't help with the issue im afraid 😦
ambitious-aqua
ambitious-aqua•17mo ago
Post a new log
plain-purple
plain-purpleOP•17mo ago
removed all environment variables (there was a mangohud one remaining after i had previously disabled mangohud for the game), then to remove dxvk i just deleted the prefix, disabled auto-install of dxvk and ran the game to rebuild the prefix. this log is from subsequent run, original issue remains present
plain-purple
plain-purpleOP•17mo ago
I can run again with dxvk/vk3d enabled if you think this would be useful?
united-yellow
united-yellow•17mo ago
You can't run the game without dxvk Turn it on Vkd3d as well
plain-purple
plain-purpleOP•17mo ago
same issue with both re-enabled
united-yellow
united-yellow•17mo ago
It's still using wined3d Lemme check if it's a dx8 game or smth
plain-purple
plain-purpleOP•17mo ago
ah okay, thanks! its pretty old so might not even be that
united-yellow
united-yellow•17mo ago
It supposed to run it with dosbox apparently And it uses dx7
plain-purple
plain-purpleOP•17mo ago
yea i thought so, is it not doing so? ahh okay
united-yellow
united-yellow•17mo ago
Try running it with dosbox
plain-purple
plain-purpleOP•17mo ago
sure not got much dosbox experience so may be a lil bit seems to have the same problem, how do i ensure its using the dosbox config? and what should permissions be for the exe/config? the game does come bundled with dosbox, should i use that instead somehow?
united-yellow
united-yellow•17mo ago
yeah make wine run an alternative exe which would be dosbox here
plain-purple
plain-purpleOP•17mo ago
plain-purple
plain-purpleOP•17mo ago
same result
united-yellow
united-yellow•17mo ago
have you updated your wine-ge btw still using wined3d for some reason
plain-purple
plain-purpleOP•17mo ago
huh, ill try using a specific version rather than wine-ge-latest
plain-purple
plain-purpleOP•17mo ago
plain-purple
plain-purpleOP•17mo ago
same issue - is wined3d still running here (and how do i check that)?
united-yellow
united-yellow•17mo ago
012c:err:d3d:wined3d_context_gl_check_fbo_status FBO 0 is incomplete, driver bug? says wined3d
plain-purple
plain-purpleOP•17mo ago
okay, the wineHQ ratings are all at "garbage", gonna try in the windows vm at some point - for now skipping to heroes of might and magic 3 as that's the first one not rated garbage in wineHQ thanks for your help though!
passive-yellow
passive-yellow•17mo ago
For what it's worth you can use fheroes2 to play the second game.
plain-purple
plain-purpleOP•17mo ago
oh cool! ill be sure to give it a try 🙂
passive-yellow
passive-yellow•17mo ago
You may also be able to get the first game running by replacing GOG's packaged DOSBox with DOSBox Staging or DOSBox-X. Oh, you were trying to play Might & Magic Book I: Secrets of the Inner Sanctum? You post title is a bit muddled. You can use ScummVM for that.

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