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I installed the game, my old and trusty Heroes disc, the gold edition from 1C. I then applied some patches on top. I did all of this as an administrator (I'm running Windows 8). The problem is that some of the animations in the game have become jerky and awkward. Specifically, the rustling of the trees and the rotation of the "aura" around the hero are not smooth; they happen in "jerks," I don't know how else to explain it. It looks like the animations in old games or GIFs. It's as if they have 5-10 fps, even though the other animations run perfectly fine and smoothly – the hero jumps as he should, and the camera rotates without issues. My hardware is top-notch; I don't have any problems with the latest games, so I won't go into detail. Also, it's important to note that I'm not imagining things; the problem is real. I watched a random let's play on YouTube and confirmed it myself. And it appears in all three games (although Heroes of Might and Magic III is essentially the same game as the original Heroes, but never mind). Furthermore, the same thing happens in the English versions that I have from Steam, which I decided to install after this. In general, the problem is clearly a conflict between the game and the system. Everything was fine on Windows 7 before. Thank you in advance. P.S. I tried compatibility mode: both with Windows 7 and Windows XP SP2 – it didn't help. I'm running the game as an administrator. P.P.S. It seems that the problem isn't with the video card driver. I thought that the game might require specific old drivers, and I used the advice from this post on AG, which is applicable to Heroes. NVIDIA Inspector turned out to have a profile for it, but it didn't solve the problem. UPD. After a night of futile attempts to restore justice, the Holy Grail was finally found :) A full Windows update helped. I'm just leaving this here; it might be useful to someone: if you encounter this problem and you're a "lucky" owner of Windows 8, just update it; it helps. A full Windows update helped. I'm just leaving this here; it might be useful to someone: if you encounter this problem and you're a "lucky" owner of Windows 8, just update it; it helps.