Posts from Technical issues in Heroes IV.

I encountered a problem. To win the scenario, I need to place the Grail in a town. I decided to wait with the Grail near the town because I wanted to level up the hero who would move on to the next scenario. But when I brought a random unit into the town without the Grail (so it wouldn't just stand around), the game ended. I reloaded the autosave, but afterward, neither placing the Grail nor visiting the town with various combinations of heroes and units, nor rolling back a week and replaying, nor reloading the game and the AI, allowed me to complete the game.
I encountered something similar before in a single-player scenario, when I needed to kill a specific enemy to pass through a gate, but the AI only confirmed the kill after 2 weeks (both in-game and calendar time).

It seems there’s an error in the script, or it didn’t work correctly for some reason.

Could you please tell me how to make the game run in windowed mode?

In what sense? It primarily depends on the system and the computer. On some, it runs well, while on others, it lags quite a bit.

In the settings, I uncheck the box next to the full-screen mode option. And nothing changes.

Try changing the resolution; it seems like it doesn't work at the maximum setting.

With F-4, switching to window mode activates full-screen mode. However, the game's resolution must be lower than the screen resolution for this to work. Another issue is that at the maximum game resolution, full-screen mode activates automatically, and on new monitors with widescreen displays, the game appears stretched.

Hello!
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?

Perhaps the problem lies in the hardware. For example, the behavior of the same game can differ on different computers. In particular, on one of my machines, some maps in the editor do not open (an incompatibility of game versions is indicated), while on another, the same maps open without any problems.
A netbook, as I understand it, is a reduced version of a computer for office work. Therefore, the problem might be with DirectX, which is installed separately, or with some other additional components that are installed.
Try searching online for the game's name (2 or 3 add-ons - it's better not to install the main version, as it slows down the game significantly, and even patches may not help). You can find a good build on a torrent or somewhere else. And it is desirable to specify what exactly is missing for the game to run.

The game is checking the disk, and that's all.

Download the nocd patch; I think that should be enough.

Download the nocd, I think that should be enough.

I agree, but I don't know if it exists for the fourth game. I haven't had any problems with it on the fourth game.

And what should be done in such a case?

So, what should one do in such a case?

Umm, in which one?

I installed the game on my netbook with Windows 7... am I imagining things, or does the game look a bit different? :eek: Or, after Heroes 6, did they cut back on resources everywhere and just leave money?



The settings have a resolution of 800x600, and it doesn't change. I tried turning off fullscreen mode, but that just made the window smaller, but everything remained the same.

I installed the game on a netbook with Windows 7... am I imagining things, or does the game look a bit different? :eek: Or did they reduce the resources everywhere after Heroes 6 and just leave money?
I have the resolution set to 800x600 in the settings, and it doesn't change. I tried turning off fullscreen mode, but that just made the window smaller, but everything remained the same.

With the specified screen resolution (800x600), the image should look like that. You can get a more detailed image by setting a higher resolution (1024x768 or 1280x1024). However, judging by the message, your netbook does not support them.