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Heroes Chronicles and HoMM III HotA not starting
Having read about a similar problem experienced by Michael_P_Giffin with some older games, I would like to ask for help with the Heroes of Might and Magic III game family. Until recently, I was able to launch subsequent campaigns from the Heroes Chronicles series without any issues, but when I reached the last one, Part 8 (Sword of the Frost), I installed it and couldn’t get it to start. The installation seemed to go smoothly, but when I try to launch it, nothing happens and nothing appears. The same issue occurs with Horn of the Abyss – I can open the start window in HD mode (mod settings), but the game itself does not launch either. I would be grateful for help in solving this problem. Below I am sending the logs from my attempts to launch both HotA and Sword of the Frost.
7 Replies
initial-rose•2mo ago
the game-porting-toolkit is meant for DX11 and DX12 games, for old games it will most likely not work
try using wine-crossover or wine-staging (wine-devel) instead for those
genetic-orangeOP•2mo ago
I tried both wine-crossover and wine-devel. Unfortunately, nothing changes (logs for Sword of Frost provided below):
initial-rose•2mo ago
can you try deleting the prefix folder before running the game with a different wine? sometimes if a prefix is created with one of the tools it's not compatible with the other one
delete this folder with the file explorer
/Users/marcinkosz/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Heroes Chronicles [Chapter 8] - The Sword of Frost (do NOT change the setting in heroic)
then run the game with wine-crossover
also share the logs of the other game, different games usually have different problemsinitial-rose•2mo ago
I know HoMM III Complete needs this fix https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/wiki/Game-Workarounds#heroes-of-might-and-magic-3-complete-from-gog, maybe it's needed for that HoMM III you have too, I don't know
GitHub
Game Workarounds
A games launcher for GOG, Amazon and Epic Games for Linux, Windows and macOS. - Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher
genetic-orangeOP•2mo ago
HotA is working now after changing toolkit to crossover, thanks! What refers to Heroes Chronicles - Sword of Frost, the problem doesn't disappear with deleting the folder, here is the new log:
genetic-orangeOP•2mo ago
I think that it's not about the fix you sent above, since Heroes Chronicles are generally independent games, just sharing the same lore and engine with the main version of HoMM III
initial-rose•2mo ago
toggle the option to auto install DXVK in the game settings in heroic and try again
other than that I don't know what else to try, I don't own the game to try anything on my end