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Hello, I have a problem in Heroes 4: When I select the resolution 1280x1024 in the game, on large maps, there are severe slowdowns. When moving the mouse, the animation is jerky, and the troops also move in a choppy manner. If I uncheck "display animation" or set the game resolution lower, everything becomes perfect. But it can't be that in 2017, an old game can't run properly at a resolution of at least 1280x1024? I've already tried everything...

Windows 7.
Processor - Athlon X4 Quad-core 651 3.0 Ghz
Video card - Geforce 550 TI 1gb.
RAM - 8 gb.

I reinstalled Windows a couple of months ago.
If anyone can help, I would be very grateful.

I recorded a video for clarity, although the screen capture program is a bit clunky, but it doesn't change the essence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEE1QTWO7wA

By the way, share your game setup – do you have the "Complete Collection" or the "Gold Collection"? That would make things clearer. Also, surprisingly, it's often better to install a pirated version – they almost always have built-in compatibility with XP, which, as I mentioned, is very helpful.

Actually, there wasn't a Complete Collection for the fourth game. But it would be interesting to know how to solve the problem on XP so that it doesn't stretch the screen to the full width of the monitor...

It used to be. Please provide the game build and which expansions you have! For example, "Alexander" puts much less load on the processor.
On XP, you can check the box for "Use software rendering," and then the game will use a "16:9" resolution, but the image quality will suffer.

It used to be. Please share the game build and which expansions you have! For example, "Alexander" puts much less load on the processor.
On XP, you can check the box for "Use software rendering," and then the game will use a "16:9" resolution, but the image quality will suffer.

I have: Heroes 4, patched to 2.0 (before the patch, there were very strong slowdowns, but not at the beginning of the game, but after some time (the memory was fully loaded, and no clearing helped - only restarting the game)); The Coming of Ariadne (2.2); Armageddon's Blade (3.0). All from Bukka, installed around 2006. I usually use the version in which the map was created. Alexander installed a pirated version, but didn't use it. The processor was moderately loaded, but the memory overload was initially a problem with Heroes 4. By the way, regarding Alexander - this has been written about repeatedly, and I confirm - unlike Bukka's collection, there are maps with bugs, unverified and unplayable maps in the collection, including campaigns that may simply be compiled from different maps that have no logical connection.
Regarding software rendering in Heroes 4 - I searched the internet, but didn't find anything useful about where to find it and how to enable it to see it in action. :smile35: As I understand it, it is more needed for online (internet) play.
I will try the CPU Control utility, but not for the game - my single-core Sempron-1600 could handle the game until the motherboard failed.

Install the pirated version from Mechanics for the Complete Collection. It doesn't lag and the resolution works fine.

What is the exact name of this collection?!

I understand, this isn't the original, but a repack. A few years ago, my nephew visited and downloaded one, but I didn't install it – I didn't want to create clones and I deleted it. Now I've put it in the download queue, but it's not working... But if I have all the content from the Gold repack, then I haven't been able to download "Era of Death" before. I'll wait, maybe the download will work...

Honestly, I don't understand why the fourth installment is considered the worst in the series – it's more interesting than the others, and it's the only one where you can climb mountains!