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quickest-silver
Heroes of Might and Magic 3 not opening
I have recently installed Heroes of Might and Magic 3 through Heroic on my linux pc. When I go play it the game will launch and it briefly says "playing" before it just closes and nothing happens. I have installed Heroes 2 also using Heroic (and Wine) and that works. I am also able to run the Map Editor and Campaign Editor portions of the game through Heroic/wine. I have tried switching from Wine to Proton and tried windows 10 and 11 in the winecfg but still no luck.
3 Replies
unwilling-turquoise•6mo ago
check https://www.gog.com/forum/heroes_of_might_and_magic_series/if_you_cant_get_homm3_to_work_after_the_latest_update_on_linux_with_wine_read_this/post3, there seems to be an issue with the game's .exe file, you have to run that
sed command to fix itIf you can't get HoMM3 to work after the latest update on Linux wit...
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unwilling-turquoise•6mo ago
an alternative is to replace the
xdd.dll file in the game's installation directory with the ddraw.dll file you can find inside the game's prefix in ./drive_c/windows/syswow64/ddraw.dll
copy that ddraw.dll as xdd.dll inside the installation dir and the game works without the change in the .exe filequickest-silverOP•6mo ago
Thank you so much. I ran that sed command and it opened right up.