Posts from The "Tribes of the East" campaign in Heroes 5 freezes. Auto-translated

Computer configuration: Athlon 5000+ EE, 1GB (2x512) DDR2 800, integrated Nvidia 6150 video, Samsung 250GB hard drive, S250 series. Windows XP SP2, installed a week ago. I bought a licensed copy of Heroes 5: Tribes of the East. The game freezes during the campaign in the Heart of Darkness mission. After the cutscene with the ghost of the governor of the Holyflame city, the game completely freezes (the mouse turns into a loading cursor, and almost nothing works in the game on the screen). I exit to Windows and terminate the program, reload... and it happens again. At first, I thought the game was installed incorrectly... I reinstalled it... but it didn't help. Then, I downloaded all available patches, installed the original version, and applied the patches... no reaction. Then I thought that there wasn't enough video memory (I had 128MB allocated). I allocated 256MB from the RAM for the video core (there was almost 900MB of RAM, and now there are 768MB), but if there isn't enough RAM, then the swap file will be used (it reserves space on the hard drive and loads it when needed). I only have 3 options left: a) the game itself was poorly written (but then others would have the same problem) b) I got a bad disc (unlikely - it's a licensed disc, I bought it at Sunrise) c) software and hardware incompatibility (unlikely, because the hardware is quite good, with all the latest updates, including the BIOS). I generally don't have the habit of buying "bad" hardware. I don't have a dedicated video card because I don't play games (except for Heroes 5:smile44:). In general, I don't know what to think! :confused: Please help - maybe someone has encountered the same problem? Or maybe someone just knows where the problem lies. Thank you in advance for your valuable advice.

Well, I'm not an expert, but it seems like the problem is with your video card, which, as I understand, is integrated... And there's probably not enough video memory for the game... I have 512 MB on my video card, and it still lags...
Although, I repeat, I'm not an expert... :o

Have you tried skipping the video immediately after it loads? I read somewhere that there's a bug related to this. Actually, there can be glitches with the built-in video in Heroes.

Then, I downloaded all available patches, installed the original version, and applied the patches... but there was no reaction.

And I didn't quite understand this phrase... The add-on is a separate game and doesn't depend on the two previous parts, and there haven't been any patches for it yet.

By the way, there's another glitchy **bug** in this mission: the game completely freezes if you complete the "kill the demon hero" quest (i.e., ask the assassins to eliminate the arrogant succubus guarding the portal) after the ritual involving the sacrifice of 4 necromancers has been performed...

Nothing froze for me. So, it's an isolated case.

Well, I'm no expert, but it seems like the problem is with your video card, which, as I understand, is integrated... And it probably doesn't have enough video memory for the game... I have 512 MB of video memory, and even that causes the game to lag...
Although, I repeat, I'm not an expert..:o

The video memory is sufficient because video memory is needed to process textures, and I have the minimum settings. That is, I have the minimum number of textures at a resolution of 1024x768. It should even work on a 64 MB card ;). Of course, with an integrated video card, there's no point in talking about anisotropic filtering and the like...
My integrated video card performs at the level of a GF6200-GF6200LE, which is much more powerful than a 440MX or Radeon 8500.
If the video card was overheating due to a heavy load on the pipelines, the game would simply be covered with "artifacts" and stripes.

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Have you tried skipping the video immediately after it loads?? I read about this bug somewhere... In general, there can be glitches in Heroes with an integrated video card.


And I didn't quite understand this phrase... The expansion is not a separate game and doesn't depend on the two previous parts, and there haven't been any patches for it yet.

I never watch videos more than once :), and I don't like waiting because I don't have time for that.

Maybe the problem is with the drivers for the integrated video card. I need to download an update from Asus. I'll try it when I get home from work. Maybe this will fix the problems with the game lagging.

Probably "Tribes of the East" uses the same engine, albeit a modified one, as the previous parts. Usually, all "previous" patches are included in the new version of the game. I was just being cautious, just in case. You never know....:o

I transferred the game and save files to my laptop (Athlon X2 - 1.6/1024/128, Radeon X1600/160/15.4). The result is the same. It still freezes. I downloaded the English version image from a peer-to-peer network and transferred the save files – it still freezes....

In other words, the problem lies in the save files created on the first computer. I have to start a new game with an uncertain outcome.