Posts from Technical issues with Heroes III.

How do you launch Heroes?
Do you have a shortcut on your desktop?
If so, hover your mouse over this shortcut and press the right mouse button.
A menu will appear, and at the very bottom of this menu, there will be a line that says "Properties"; click on it with the left mouse button.
A window with the properties of this shortcut will appear.
On the second tab, there will be a field called "Start in," and next to it will be the directory from which Heroes is launched.
So, in this same directory, there should be a folder called Games; this is where you need to put the save file.
Do you understand?

In short, open the submenu through the properties (as Kyle indicated), then a window will appear - "sword and magic properties", divided into 2 sections - "general" and "shortcut", click on the "shortcut" tab and look at the directory (the path where the heroes are installed) in the "working directory" item, there you will find the folders you need.

Also, do the following: open the "Start" menu, then click the "Find" button, then enter the file name start_save.GM1, after finding this file, put it where it needs to be (as described above). If the problem remains, describe everything in more detail. Don't worry, you are one of us ;), so we will definitely help you... :)

I had the same problem. In the end, I just downloaded the executable file for SoD 3.2 (although it doesn't seem to be a fully functional 3.2 version), and for online games, I downloaded Platinum 4.0 - the disc from SoD still works with it.

The Heroes map editor won't launch. Can you suggest what I can do? I'm using the SoD game from Ubisoft with a patched 3.2 exe file. Previously, I had a pirated version, and it worked! Thank you!