heroes of might and magic 5

russianpirate · 2006-05-18 23:08:35

my brother just ordered homm5 for his windows comp,
i really love homm (especially 3).. and i tried to play the demo on my comp (cedega 5.1), the game installs and loads, but after i start the game, it loads then just crashes.. i read somewhere that someone ran it with cedega

i was wondering if anyone here knows how to run it?

thanks a lot.. im really hoping for this game to work

hollywoodb · 2006-05-18 23:38:56

http://transgaming.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5866

basically, use WINE

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=1638

russianpirate · 2006-05-19 01:21:38

hollywoodb wrote:

http://transgaming.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5866
basically, use WINE
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=1638

thats heroes 4.... not 5..
5 needs dx9 so cedega is definetely required unless u use dx9wine or w/e

hollywoodb · 2006-05-19 20:14:34

oops my bad, either way, WINE has damn good support for direct3d 8 and 9 at this point... actually for me WINE has been able to run more newer games than cedega

russianpirate · 2006-05-20 02:13:08

Yes.. the Australian version arrived

Here is how you can fix the crashing during the loading of the map:

1. Get a HEX editor (I used ghex)
2. Download NOCD crack for Heroes V (gamecopyworld.com has one)
3. Copy the nocd exe over the original exe (keep the orig just in case)
4. Find this hex string in the nocd exe:

51 56 8B F1 8B 4E 08 2B  4E 04 8B 46 28 C1 F9 02

5.Change the first 51 to C3
6.Run using cedega (wine wont work but you can get cvscedega ).. play around with settings to make it run smoothly

I read about this on some russian gaming forums becauase Heroes crashed for them in windows like this too.

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#1 2006-05-18 23:08:35

heroes of might and magic 5

#2 2006-05-18 23:38:56

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