Technical issues with Heroes III. Auto-translated

I can't play online – I've tried both "The Shadow of Death" with patches and the complete collection. When I click the TCP/IP button, the following log appears:
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I tried using Gameranger – I click join, and it says:
<< DirectPlay is not installed correctly. Download and install DirectX >>
<< http://www.GameRanger.com/download/directx/ >>
<< Failed to Start Game (Error: 10) >>
I'm using Windows 8, 64-bit, and I've tried all possible compatibility settings with XP. Is there any chance I can play?

I absolutely can't help with anything regarding Windows 8, but this **hero3.prj** caught my eye. What is this thing? Do you have such a folder on your computer? Are you involved in modding or something?

Lider1, there is no such folder, I have no idea why the game is referencing it and what it even is. The game is installed in C:\Homm3RoE.

Homm3RoE – now that’s interesting. It’s Erathia, after all. Try installing a complete version of Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death: http://heroes3.tv/data/downloads/heroes_3_sod_complete.rar It might help.

Some progress has been made – I managed to launch the game through a virtual 32-bit Windows XP. All the problems mentioned above have disappeared – the TCP/IP button now works. I haven't tried playing through Hamachi yet, but in GameRanger, the next problem is that when I join a game (using the "join" button), the program launches Heroes, stays in it for about half a minute (showing the background image of the menu without buttons), and then kicks me back to the desktop. There are no logs, and GameRanger remains running. I've tried all possible versions, including the one mentioned above. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Added after 2 hours 59 minutes
I figured it out! I was just trying to connect to games that had already started (with the green circle). I can join other games normally, and the game runs very stably – there were no crashes at all during the evening.

After scouring both Russian and English forums, I can confidently say that it is practically impossible to fix the game directly on Windows 8 – install a virtual OS, and all the problems will go away (I personally used Oracle VirtualBox).

Hooray!

I figured it out! I was just trying to connect to games that had already started (with the green circle).

Well, good job)))

After scouring both Russian and English forums, I can confidently say that fixing the game directly on Windows 8 is practically impossible – install a virtual OS, and all your problems will go away (personally, I used Oracle VirtualBox).

That's why I use XP64 and have no problems. Of course, games with DirectX 10-11 are not available to me, but I don't suffer because of it. And it consumes less memory for some unclear super-necessary features and joys of life.

But I am glad, honestly, that you managed to do it.

By the way, 98% of players in GameRanger are complete newbies. I advise you to /topic/10980/ arrange matches with players here (last page). Or, you can play there, and after your skills improve from playing with GR, come here))

how to launch HD in Gameranger?

Added 1 hour 15 minutes ago
also noticed that the hero's speed on the map in HD, when set to maximum (heroes move in jumps - without animation), doesn't work. The heroes move quickly, but not as they should.

read here https://sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/description3, you can play with HD mod options even with those who don't have it, just don't check the HD+ box.
And in general, learn how to play, here's one piece of evidence that everyone who is a beginner doesn't know how to play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V857CSyZkrM. 1 Angel is a very good bonus in the first week. But you can find more information on the streams of our players, search on Google: Heroes 3 TV.

Cannot host/connect.

This is because the nickname is empty; you need to enter something.

Here's the situation. We're playing Heroes of Might and Magic III. The first and second players can't see each other's hosts; we've tried LAN, TCP/IP, and everything else. They can only connect through a third player. But the third player always gets kicked out on the second day, and the game autosaves a different game. Even though they remain in the chat, deleting the saves doesn't help – they just get kicked out of the game. I've reinstalled Heroes a couple of times, and it fixes the issue for one game, but how can I normalize the situation? Has anyone else encountered something similar?

Hello, please help me solve a problem. We struggled for a long time, but we finally created a network game through Hamachi, played for half the night, and it crashed for one of us. How do we load the automatic save? We are playing Armageddon's Blade. When trying to load the game, I join the host, see him in the player list, and even see what he's writing in the chat, but he doesn't see me and can't click the load button. He gets an error message saying that at least 2 players are required to load the game. Please help!

Hello. My problem is related to the ResEdit program. I wanted to use it to fix a bug so that Naga banks would give gems instead of sulfur. I downloaded a modified crbanks.txt file from another website, which should fix the bug after it is added to the bitmap.lod archive. I added it there using this program, and then something strange started happening: first, the game wouldn't start at all, complaining that a certain regions.txt file was missing. I would send a screenshot of the error, but it disappeared after another upload of the crbanks.txt file. The game starts, but after clicking the "Scenario" button, it crashes every time. Campaigns work. Please tell me where I went wrong and how to make the game work.

crbanks.txt from another website, which should fix the bug after it's added to the bitmap.lod archive.

No. It simply goes into the Data\ folder (restore bitmap.lod and place crbanks.txt next to it).

restore bitmap.lod and place it next to crbanks.txt

Thank you. But how do I fix this bug in general?