I have a licensed copy of Heroes 4, and I used to play it a long time ago, and it ran fine on Windows XP. Years have passed, and now I have a netbook, but I felt nostalgic and wanted to play it again. My netbook also has Windows XP. The game installs normally, but it won't launch. It starts checking the disk, and that's where it stops.
I found a description of a similar problem around post number seventy, and I even tried following the advice described there, but I didn't get any results. The Equilibris patch didn't help. It started displaying a message saying that something was missing (I don't remember what exactly, but the game won't launch). Reinstalling and restarting didn't help. I tried other patches from the link provided in one of the posts – for all of them except Equilibris, it says that the page was not found, and it's impossible to download them.
Can you suggest what to do?