First, install the Heroes of Might and Magic III Complete game, provided by GOG (version 2.0.0.16).Instead, I will just list what I did in order to get an extended and enhanced installation of Heroes III. I will not go through all the details, since there were so many options and unofficial extensions. Amazing! Seems that Heroes III is much more popular than I thought! I searched the net and stumbled upon the Heroes Community web-site. I wanted to be able to play Heroes III in a higher resolution, similarly to what VCMI offered. Sure, the OS is no longer supported, but its only use will be for playing the game every now and then. Therefore, I decided to set up the game in a virtual machine (VM) running Windows XP. I got tired of it and looked for an alternative approach, at least until VCMI gets more stable. It turned out to crash way too often, and sometimes the AI players behave in a pretty weird way.

Unfortunatelly, the VCMI engine is not yet stable enough for me to consider the game playable. Over a year ago, I wrote a post about playing Heroes III natively in Linux thanks to the VCMI project. If there are issues when performing an automated update of the HD-Mod, you can download the up-to-date installer package from the developer’s website and install it over the old version in the same folder.Heroes III in a Windows VM Posted: | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: game | Tags: Heroes, HotA, VCMI, virtualbox, windows | 3 Comments You can purchase the original game “Heroes of Might and Magic III: Complete” for installing HotA here: Localization of the original game does not matter.Īttention: HotA is not to be installed on top of “Heroes of Might and Magic III - HD Edition” (from Ubisoft), or on top of “Restoration of Erathia” or “Armageddon’s Blade” HoMM III versions. HotA is to be installed on top of the previous HotA version or the original game “Heroes of Might and Magic III: Shadow of Death” or “Complete”. It is recommended for torrent-client users to download updates using the torrent link. If you encounter problems with downloading, try another one: You can access the latest version of HotA by following one of a number of interchangeable links.

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