Heroes of Might and Magic III Complete under Windows 7
by Kevin ~ November 17, 2009
With great trepidation, I embarked on what I figured would be a painful journey trying to get my favorite game working under Windows 7. I thought I would be clever and install it under the “Windows XP Mode” virtual machine. It installed, but crashed when I ran it.
Next I tried to install it native directly on my 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate desktop. It installed without a hitch. When I ran the game, the opening video looked awful, took long pauses, appeared pixelated, and suffered from trash left on the screen left over from previous screens.
Once the opening video played, the game started and has run FLAWLESSLY with no patches, settings, or other complications. I am running the 3DO Version 4.0 Heroes of Might and Magic III Complete.
Woo hoo! Another 5 years of time wasted to come!
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:53 am
Iv just bought a new pc with windows 7 ultimate and so glad to have found your message about the game working final after initial dodgyness. im off to waste my life away again now.
November 28th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Hi,
I have just gotten a replacement laptop with Windows 7 on it and would like to install HMM III, however I can’t get autorun.exe to do anything, either as is (no surprise), as an administrator, or under XP compatibility mode.
Any suggestions? I only have W7 Home Premium 32 bit.
Thx. A
December 7th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
all i can tell you ‘a’ is to turn off all antiirus programs running and aswell as installing as admin and running in 95 comp mode when u play the game do same.
January 6th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
I’m running under XP SP2 compatibility mode. After my first flawless day, there were some annoying crashes. However, they have gone away entirely. I think the fix was updated audio drivers. With Windows 7, you’re dealing with new hardware probably and new software and drivers. This is a critical time to get updates to drivers.
January 15th, 2010 at 12:36 am
anyone know how to get the cheat codes to work on win 7?
February 10th, 2010 at 9:53 am
Kevin is absolutely correct! I loaded it yesterday and just hit yes to all of the boxes that mentioned incompatability and loaded it anyway. After the opening scenes it runs like a champ.
Thanks Kevin!!