The game doesn't launch with the new drivers. Auto-translated

Good day! Please tell me what I can do in my situation. I have an NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 video card. Until yesterday, I had drivers from February 2012 installed. I decided to update them. The official website offered drivers from March 2013. I updated them, and everything installed correctly. Other games run fine, but Heroes crashes during loading. I'm using the standard, fully patched version of the game. I rolled back the driver, and it works normally again... Does this mean I can't update my drivers anymore? Or are there any other patches available? I have version 1.06 installed. Thank you in advance for your answer!

I recommend trying to reinstall Windows. It should help.

Yes, Heroes handles video cards a bit strangely. But I don't see a problem; you really don't need to update the drivers.

the game has an issue with detecting available video memory; if it exceeds 2GB (video card memory + available system RAM for textures), unpleasant bugs may occur, such as the texture quality dropping below the minimum at startup or randomly during gameplay, and in some cases, the game may crash completely at startup. I've observed this on NVIDIA cards on systems running Vista and later. Try placing the fix d3d9.dll in the game's bin folder and checking if it resolves the issue.

Based on my Google Translate from Russian, I think I can thank you, Icharus, on behalf of the entire HV community, which has used this library for a decade without any response. Thank you.