Technical issues in Heroes IV.

I installed the fourth game on my new laptop. The operating system is 8. I fiddled with compatibility settings and got everything working. Then I tried to launch it. It says: "Failed to install the driver." By the way, the map editor launched normally. So, I decided to install the game through VirtualBox on an XP system. After the installation was complete, it automatically kicked me out to the browser, where it said that a certain page could not be found. When I click on the game shortcut on the virtual machine's desktop, the virtual machine freezes, the screen shrinks, and turns black. If I launch it through the disk menu, a funny sound plays, and nothing else happens. It seems that the problem is that the game has an outdated link to the necessary driver. What should I do in this situation?