Stereo or operasound possible in Heroes 2?

[Campaigner]

The compatibility kit in the sticky didn't work (there's already a profile for Heroes, did you know that?). Mounting with CD in drive didn't work, WIN 95 compatibility is on....so what can I do?

Like only midi sound wasn't bad enough....now the game crashes when I enter combat! Attacking some wandering monsters (first battle in the map) and the game crashes to desktop with the "game has encountered a problem and needs to close" message.....

[Kristo]

Applying the Win95 compatibility setting will override anything you did with the tookit. Try turning that off and re-applying your Heroes compatibility profile.

[Campaigner]

Didn't work.

Will it work perfectly if I dualboot with Win98 instead of XP?

[Kristo]

If your other OS is a linux flavor, try Wine. According to them, Heroes 2 is supposed to run pretty well out of the box.

I've seen the same crash repeatedly for Heroes 1, but never for Heroes 2. I'll have to think/experiment a bit and get back to you.

[Campaigner]

I tried the premade compatibility for "Heroes of Might and Magic" and it plays perfectly now (though without stereo sound).

So how do we get the stereo sound up and running? Also no sound in the campaign menus when you choose a mission.

So annoying....in Heroes III it's mp3s. No stupid stereo selection....

Update: I've tried Virtual PC 2007 but I can't install Win98 on it (computer seem to look for it but nothing happens).

[MoxManiac]

Are you using XP? H2's sound worked fine for me after installing with no modifications or changes to anything on XP SP2; it was installing that was my problem. (hence my thread)

[Kristo]

I'll assume you have the stereo sound turned on in the game options. What fixes did the "Heroes of Might and Magic" compatibility thing enable? When I wrote the fix you saw in the FAQ I was using ACT version 3.0. I wonder if version 5.0 has changed anything.