Posts from HoMM3 HD bug reports.

Version 5.4 R29

SoD is running.
During battle:

1. Archangels are waiting,
2. Scorpions furiously kill griffins.
3. Archangels resurrect griffins in the last turn of the round. Now it's the griffins' last turn.
4. Now the griffins cannot take a defensive position. Neither the spacebar nor the button on the screen works. They are forced to attack or move.

HD 5.4 R33

HOMM 3 Complete + SoD_SP

Map: The Empire of the World II RUS.h3m

After defeating the golden golems, the game crashes.
Reproducible during a battle without artifacts and if all gold is spent.

Not reproducible if you win this battle without the HD mod.

Crash log and save file attached.

 

UPD:

The problem was in the SoD_SP plugin itself. After the update, the crash is no longer reproducible.

 

HD 5.4 R33
Before the update, I had version HD 5.4 R30, which worked without crashes (I reverted to it).

HOMM 3 Complete (GOG) + HotA

Map: any (either HotA or a map from the SOD complete edition), the main thing is that the map allows you to choose starting heroes.

What to do: start a new map, single player. Choose any map from the list. For example, "Too many monsters". Now we want to choose our starting town and hero. Click on the "Starting town" icon - a menu with city images appears. Click on any one. Now a menu with icons of available heroes for that town should appear. But sometimes you get these options:

1. If you play as the first (red) player, then everything works without any problems: you can choose both the town and the hero without any issues.
2. If you choose any other color (I tried blue) for yourself and then try to choose a hero, there are two possible outcomes:
    a) After clicking on the town icon, the game crashes with the message "ResourceManager::GetBitmap816 could not find the "bitmap8" resource "я"." (the number after GetBitmap varies). It also offers to send a report.
   b) It doesn't crash after clicking on the town icon, but it just displays an error. However, instead of hero icons, there is a solid rainbow (see the screenshot in the attachment). If you cancel and try to create the map again, instead of the rainbow, some "random" hero is drawn in all the cells. You can read the details by right-clicking, but it's terribly inconvenient.

Edit: I edited the message to make it clearer

Good day!
There's a persistent error occurring during the brown company's turn. I've attached the save file and log.
I don't think I've done anything unusual; it's just a standard random map, and it won't let me finish any of them lately.
I've tried various tweaks to bypass the errors, but they didn't help. I reset the settings to default.
I haven't installed any additional mods; it's a clean version "out of the box" with the latest HD 5.4 R40 (WoG) updates.

P.S. Yesterday, I encountered a similar crash while taking my own actions, so it might be the same issue.
I used a dimension door, ended up on these mushrooms as shown in the attachment. The door worked, but then the game crashed immediately.

There are 4 more saves with a persistent error during the AI turn.
Are there any settings that could prevent this?

After one of the recent updates, some save files that were previously causing issues could be completed, and the error disappeared. Here are three new save files that still consistently produce the error. The version is the latest, 5.4 R42 WoG.

Not sure if it’s a bug in the HD mod or the Fresh mod, but yesterday, my opponent and I were so perfectly synchronized when bidding during an auction that we both made the first bid on a color at the exact same time, and each of us saw ourselves as the first to do so in our respective chat windows.

Hello everyone, I encountered the following bug:

When launching Heroes of Might and Magic with an HD mod, if you move the window with heroes to a second screen, the cursor becomes invisible (but it still works).

Win 10 21H2, Nvidia GTX1080, launch mode - stretchable 32 bit OpenGL, 1300x730, filter xBRZ x4 + Lanczos (I also tried other modes, but the issue persists).

Good afternoon!
HD 5.4 R50
The application crashes completely when passing the turn...

Good afternoon. After entering battle mode, some elements of the battle window are duplicated on the left side of the screen (mainly the horizontal bar, but sometimes the buttons for the spellbook, skipping a turn, etc.). This only happens in HOMM3 Complete; in HotA, everything is normal. Also, the bug does not occur if the hero has the Tactics skill, and the battle starts with troop deployment.

[HOTA MAP EDITOR CRASH LOG]

HotA Map Editor version: 0.0 build 38

Time
{
   Mon Nov 27 21:41:03 2023
}

Exception
{
   Module:     h3hota_maped.exe
   Address:     0x00429E15
   Code:        EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
   Flags:       0x00000000
   Information: read of address: 0x00000000
}

Call stack
{
             0x00509AA9 called from        0x0045BF07
                      ? called from before 0x0050B86B
                      ? called from before 0x00510551
                      ? called from before 0x0051A777
             0x0051A678 called from        0x0045C88E
                      ? called from before 0x005084A1
             0x02560033 called from        0x0322017B
                      ? called from before 0x76DBFCC9
                      ? called from before 0x773A7C6E
             0x773A7C3F called from        0x773A7C39
                      ? called from before 0x00000000
} 
How to fix this error in the map editor?

In the latest versions of the HoMM3 HD mod, there is no introductory video when the game starts. Specifically, the scene depicting the Sistine Chapel is missing.

In Heroes of Might and Magic III Complete, the icons for "Next Unit" and "Start Battle" tactics are not displayed before the battle begins. In HOTA, they are displayed correctly.

Hello. My friends are facing a problem: HotA (version 1.7.1) is not working (we are playing Heroes 3). Specifically, the launcher does not respond to clicking the "Play" button, and the launcher update also does not work. One friend used Windows 7, and after updating to Windows 10, the game stopped working (I have Windows 10, and everything works; we downloaded from the official HotA website). The second friend has Windows 11. On Windows 11, the game launched and worked perfectly, but the next day, the launcher stopped updating, and the "Play" button stopped working.

What we have tried: reinstalled the HotA package many times (game + launcher from the official website), ran it as administrator, manually updated the HotA launcher, changed the game compatibility settings, "borrowed" files from me (I shared all the game files with my friends), and checked the game settings. If anyone knows anything, please let me know what we can do. I would be very grateful.

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When attempting to update the mod through the launcher, an error window with error #241 appears.
Reinstalling the mod/game does not help.
Operating system: Windows 10 Home, latest version. Link to a screenshot of the error: https://ibb.co/0mWdt33
Does anyone know what the problem might be?

Did you find a solution?

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I have the same problem with the update.

Did you find a solution? If you have any information, please share it...

Good day. My friends encountered a problem...

Have you tried adding the game folder to the antivirus exceptions or disabling the antivirus?

Have you tried installing the game not in Program Files (if it's installed there), but in a folder where you have full access rights?

Have you tried running h3hota HD.exe manually from the game folder instead of using the button in the launcher?