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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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!!
game runs on win 7, but crashes too often
Hi,
. I solved two of three problems, but still I there is a problem with DirectX. It doesn´t take the version I have, so I tried to install the version 7.0a, but still it says that I have unknown version…
so far I´m trying to install this game for a few days
Any suggestions, please?
thx Petra
yea i am havin the same problem, i love heroes 3 n wnt to install it on my laptop but it has windows 7. my prtoblem is that i can completely install it but when i go to load it up it freezes and i have to use tha power button to turn it off… ne suggestions on how i can play it on my laptop with out it freezing when i try to start it
Hey all
My wife just got a new laptop with W7.
I just copied the whole game folder with everything from our normal PC to her Laptop (so no real installing – just copying the files)
And it works like a charm…almost
We normally play multiplayer tcp/ip, with me on the normal PC and her on the Laptop.
But she keeps getting “thrown off” all the time.
I tried everything!
Uninstalled antivirus. Switched off firewall. Changed channel on our wireless connection to the router. Even plugged in network cabel to the router instead of using wireless
Nothing works – she keeps getting disconnected from the games we play…
Anyone can help with this?
Thanks in advance!
I can’t seem to get Heroes III complete working on my Windows XP desktop. When I insert disc 1 no install window pops up and when I click auto run I get the hour glass and then nothing. Any idea what’s going on? It’s my favorite game as well and I’m saddened not playing it!
i also love heroesIII i have the complete version but i cant install hom&m3 on my laptop help
I’m having a problem AFTER installation. I can get the program to install and run without any issue at all using Windows XP SP2 compatibility. However, when running the game, after the initial “3DO” screen/voice output, it will turn to the “New World Computing” screens and then to the title menu. In those screens there is no audio or speech at all, including any in-game screens as well. Has anyone encountered this problem? If so, how would I fix the audio?
to A : I had the same problem with autoron and setup, neither of them works. My solution was safe mode, just run windows in safe mode and try autorun again.
sry for my english.
hi there,
The first time i played heroes i was 5 and i have played ever since. i do have a question though that hope sombedy can answer for me… my computer died and i now only have heroes three which is my fav and the best by far. If i buy the heroes 3 complete set is that all i will have to install for it to work and run properly on my new mac computer?
I just installed heroes 3 yesterday on Windows 7 64-bit. Haven’t had any problems at all. The installer comes up with a large number of absurd warning messages (e.g. “requires 32 Mb of memory to run. Your computer only has 2 Gb. Would you like to install anyway?”), but one can safely ignore them.
(What’s with that anyway? I could understand if it was unable to tell how much memory a modern computer had, but to correctly work out and report how much memory I had, and then somehow fail to realise that 2048 > 32 is just ridiculous.)
By the way, I don’t have the complete edition, just the base game.
I just got a laptop for christmas, with Windows7 Home Premium, and it has the 64-bit thingy. I bought HMMIII A while ago, like, 2005? And it has the classic problem of the buttons on the auto-run window not working. I don’t know hwo to install it on to 64-bit, and the setup.exe file in the \setup folder seems to have disappeared. Familiar simptons? Help me out, please!
Also, sometimes now the autorun won’t even show up! I’ve tried pretty much everything… When I try running it, when Windows asks me if the “unknown publisher” Can make changes on my computer, I say yes, and then nothing happens.
I have found that if certain other programs are running, that HMM3 will not start. I had SOMETHING that auto-started that I had to remove (forget what it was). Try shutting down everything you can get your hands on.
I have windows 7 home premium and i cant get my HoMM 3 or 2 to work, can anyone help?
Hi,
Can anyone help me??
I have downloaded Heroes M&M 3 but through the installation everything passes except the directx, so I cancelled everything and updated my directx to the latest edition.. It still shows this problem but I ignored it and it still downloaded..
When I go to play the game my keyboard and mouse freezes up (I can’t press esc to cancel the 3do startup screen).. I let it play through and when It reaches the menu screen I still can’t move the mouse or anything..
Does anyone know what thsi problem is and how it an be fixed!
I am on Windows 7 Home edition.
Thank you… HELP
Mark
I had the same issue with attempting to install HOMM3 Complete from the discs on my new Alienware Aurora R3 with Windows 7 Ultimate (^4bit). So since I had installed the WOG mod to my HOMM3 Complete install on my older Windows 7 machine, I just copied the entire 3DO folder from the C drive and pasted it into the same area of the C drive for the new Windows 7 machine. I then just selected the WOG executable and was able to play HOMM3 WOG without actually installing the HOMM3 complete from the discs.
can anione help me ? heroes 3 is not working on my pc whit windows 7 home premion… it instaled normaly but wen I click on te icon to play it open the first image in full scream but apears a mesage of error an the game wont load (nor works).
Do anyone now how i do to play it??????? ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Would autorun or run setup but closed Firefox and it popped up straight away