Trouble patching HOMM IV

[jtmcgrane]

Hi, everyone. I have Heroes of Might and Magic IV version 2.2 . I can't get any patches or mods to work on it. I keep getting the same error messages when I begin the download...

Patch Warning
Missing or Invalid Registry/INI entry

and after pressing Ok...

Patch Error
Old File does not exist

Does anyone have any wisdom to share on this.
Thanks,
John

[Pol]

Perhaps you need what you're urged to. Repair your registry. In other words did you tried to reinstall your game? Spin a cd drive again, put a gold metal plate on its tongue and let it all begin once again.

Also check your language version, some languages are more specific than the others. Here's the page.

[jtmcgrane]

Hi. Thank you for your response. I uninstalled the game and all saved game files with it. Then I ran a registry cleaner. I reinstalled and I am still getting the same error messages. I don't know how to check the language version. I'm not that good at anything to do with the registry.

[Kalah]

1. Click "start".
2. Click "run".
3. Type "regedit" and click enter.
4. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/New World Computing/Heroes of Might and Magic IV/1.0/
5. Find out which one of these language keys you have:

409 = US
809 = UK English
??? = Czech
40c = French
40f = German
??? = Hungarian
410 = Italian
40a = Spanish
??? = Russian

Basically, if it says you have version 409, you have the US version of the game and you need the US patch.

[Pol]

If that wasn't a way. This will. And scroll down.

[jtmcgrane]

Thanks guys. Its the US version. Uh, I saw Ubisoft's site and their statement about the current version being 2.2. If that is so, then why am I seeing the 3.0 version everywhere. I still can't the game to patch. I believe I tried to add the Equilibris mod as well and that didn't work either. I am very confused. Did Ubisoft make my version unpatchable????

[Pol]

Yes, these guys have notorious trouble with numbers. Your version is up to date with exception of update for a spellbook.


(Ok, should be. On our patch update page which I linked previously as the last ones are menitoned Ubisoft patches, you may try them. Still it should be only spell book fix which you should need. )

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This thread is a candidate to be merged into FAQ.

[jtmcgrane]

The spellbook patch worked perfectly well. Thanks for all of your help!
I'll let you folks get back to more important questions.

John