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Hello. I have a problem – everything used to work fine, but I reinstalled Windows (from XP to XP), and now the game won't launch. After starting the game, a black screen appears, and the Heroes cursor (golden) is visible, but the game freezes, and the Task Manager shows that the program is not responding. I've already tried 4 different versions, and they all have the same issue. I was told that it's because I have a custom XP build, and I need to reinstall the system, but I don't want to. Is there any solution?

Exactly the same problem; even if it manages to launch, it freezes when attempting to connect via TCP/IP.

I have the same problem as in both posts. Everything was fine, but one day when I launched the game, these problems started. ********************** Resolved.

Hello. I have a problem – everything used to work fine, but I reinstalled Windows (from XP to XP), and now it won't launch. After launching, there is a black screen, the Heroes cursor (golden) is visible, and then it freezes; Task Manager says that the program is not responding. I have already tried 4 different versions, and they all behave the same way. Someone told me that this is because I have an assembly of XP and that I need to reinstall the system, but I don't want to do that. Is there any solution?

Maybe Windows was installed incorrectly? ;)
PS: You can mark this as resolved here; I see that some people have already found a solution.

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Yes, I installed Windows in reverse mode!