heroes of might and magic 5

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russianpirate · Post by **russianpirate** » Fri May 19, 2006 1:59 am

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

GetCool · Post by **GetCool** » Fri May 19, 2006 5:35 am

russianpirate wrote: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

Well, I can't really help you, but with such a new game I wouldn't get my hopes up just yet. According to this thread, HoM&M 4 is still a work in progress under Wine/Cedega.

I know how you feel, though, when a new Windows game is released that you can't run for a while. I have a copy of Oblivion sitting in my drawer, because I bought it right before I wiped my Windows partition for good. Such is the life we live.

russianpirate · Post by **russianpirate** » Sat May 20, 2006 2:13 am

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:

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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.

GetCool · Post by **GetCool** » Sat May 20, 2006 5:21 am

So it's really just a copy protection issue, then? The game runs fine in Cedega?

Too bad I don't use Cedega. Maybe I'll try the demo in Wine some day I'm bored.

russianpirate · Post by **russianpirate** » Sat May 20, 2006 7:09 am

No its not a copy protection thing. I think it has to do with the pixel shaders or maybe something else graphics-related.. this hex change just prevents some check or some other verification from being run.. not sure

However, the game does crash from time to time.. :-\ can get used to that though

EDIT: If anyone is skilled with scripting or programming.. is it possible to make a script that kills wine when heroes 5 crashes (cause i dont feel like restarting my comp)..

s0j0urn3r · Post by **s0j0urn3r** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 12:05 am

Which version of the no-cd did you used? Juz bought the game and tried to use the english no-cd to run in cedega but I can't find the hex string anywhere.

peter_poulsen · Post by **peter_poulsen** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:08 am

russianpirate wrote: EDIT: If anyone is skilled with scripting or programming.. is it possible to make a script that kills wine when heroes 5 crashes (cause i dont feel like restarting my comp)..

Whenever I want to kill cedega/wine I run:

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killall -9 wine wineserver

that usually does the trick (other games then HOMM may die without taking cedega/wine with it

)

russianpirate · Post by **russianpirate** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:10 am

I know thats how you kill it lol
But.. I want a script that kills wineserver when h5 hangs cause i have no control of the input whatsoever..
Right now i decided to use SSH to kill it from my bro's laptop

eNTi · Post by **eNTi** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:37 pm

can't you even switch to another x session?

russianpirate · Post by **russianpirate** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:20 pm

nope all of direct input is blocked so you need to use ssh or a realtime script/program to kill it

GetCool · Post by **GetCool** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 1:03 am

russianpirate wrote:nope all of direct input is blocked so you need to use ssh or a realtime script/program to kill it

Yes, this is what used to happen to me when a Windows application under Wine went screwy.

I would guess that any scripted solution for this would be pretty complex and/or a dirty hack, as it would have to be some kind of cron job or polling daemon. And if you're thinking of ways to write a polling daemon that automatically kills a problematic app, then it's probably time to stop using the problematic app (at least until it is better supported). But of course, we all have our own priorities.

russianpirate · Post by **russianpirate** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 1:30 am

Well im not that good with programming yet (still on page 80/800? of teach yourself perl in 21 days and im kinda lazy so i stop reading it for days sometimes lol) and a cron job that looks for a dead program every 30sec-1min would seriously slow everything down.. well.. actually ps -A every 2 sec probably wouldnt kill anyone lol.. but still its too dirty and ssh works better for me

But.. if anyone is willing to write a script/daemon to kill wine/cedega when its defunct or hung.. I would greatly appreciate it

GetCool · Post by **GetCool** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 3:32 am

russianpirate wrote:But.. if anyone is willing to write a script/daemon to kill wine/cedega when its defunct or hung.. I would greatly appreciate it

Well, it would actually be quite easy to write a script that would identify a defunct process named "wine", for example, and kill it. However, I'm not so sure if wine will be marked "defunct" or not when it hangs like this; by definition, "defunct" really means that the process has not been properly destroyed by its parent process. Whether or not this applies, I'm not sure.

Furthermore, this is dirty, and I do not recommend putting something like this into a cron job.

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#!/bin/sh

if [[ -n $( ps -e | grep defunct | grep wine ) ]] ; then
    killall -9 wine
fi

EmptyDoor · Post by **EmptyDoor** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:13 am

It is playable in Wine. Look here
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=3233

russianpirate · Post by **russianpirate** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:42 am

lol this thread is becoming popular:

http://cedegawiki.sweetleafstudios.com/ ... nd_Magic_V
http://transgaming.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6048

peter_poulsen · Post by **peter_poulsen** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:39 pm

No wonder!! That hexedit fix is fixing everything! (at least it is running smooth on my machine)

russianpirate · Post by **russianpirate** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 12:22 pm

Ya btw there is a patch 1.1. The fix doesn't work for that, but you don't even need it for 1.1 I'm pretty sure. I'm just waiting for a nocd. If you updated to 1.1 and you can't run the game.. just replace the exe with the 1.0 exe cracked by reloaded.. that's what I did and its fine.

Patch to 1.1: http://www.maps4heroes.com/heroes5/patch_1_1_eng.php

Crack for 1.1: http://rapidshare.de/files/22972230/u-hmm11c.rar.html

Tested: Works with Cedega 5.2

of course there is still the mouse rotating problem, but keyboard works fine

PS: If you can read russian or use a translator, there is A LOT of information of the Heroes 5 forum on AG.RU.. that's where a lot of devels from Nival post and tell about upcoming releases.. and the 1.1 patch was available there before anywhere else.

crazy-bee · Post by **crazy-bee** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:41 pm

Its pretty strange. If I use this hex fix, I do see the splash screen, and then only a black screen. If I keep the original exe, I get further, but the game crahs at at end of loading a mission

I cannot install Patch 1.01 ("Game not installed").

ev123 · Post by **ev123** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:50 am

The instruction on installation and generation of maps for Heroes 5 here:

Heroes 5 random map generator

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