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.
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!!
April 19th, 2010 at 11:52 am
game runs on win 7, but crashes too often
May 6th, 2010 at 6:55 am
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
July 10th, 2010 at 8:20 am
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
July 20th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
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!