HOMM3 Freezes

Horizons4 · Unread postby **Horizons4** » 04 Jan 2009, 13:40

Hi!

When I play HOMM3 (Fall of Steadwick scenario in 2nd campaign) the game freeze after a few minutes. For an example it happend when I tried to save the game and also sometimes when in battle. It just locks up and the sound stutters and I have to restart the computer. Alt-tab or ctrl-alt-del won't work either.

I do not have problems with any other games. Have the platinum edition so it has the latest patch. And I have been able to play it normally before. Running XP SP3.

Any help would be appreciated! What I'm hoping for is if someone have had the same similiar problem and know how to solve it.

Pol · Unread postby **Pol** » 04 Jan 2009, 14:01

Can you try to mute the ingame sound for the scenario?

Koni · Unread postby **Koni** » 04 Jan 2009, 14:56

Maybe you can solve the problem by changing the compatiblity modus of your heroes3.exe (rightclick on properties) to Windows95/98 or NT, instead of running with XP. It worked for me with the wog.exe. Look here.

Horizons4 · Unread postby **Horizons4** » 04 Jan 2009, 15:21

Thanks for your suggestions!

Turning off sound didn't solve it though. Will try the compatibility thing, but it has always worked before on XP without changing compatibility.

klaymen · Unread postby **klaymen** » 04 Jan 2009, 15:56

Service pack 2 screwed compatibility for many games, so maybe SP3 did the same too (I don't use it so I don't know)

Horizons4 · Unread postby **Horizons4** » 07 Jan 2009, 12:12

Seems like changing compatibility to Win 98 did the trick. So far no freezing. Thanks to all for your help! I'll let you know if it ends up freezing later on.

darknessfood · Unread postby **darknessfood** » 07 Jan 2009, 12:18

klaymen wrote:Service pack 2 screwed compatibility for many games, so maybe SP3 did the same too (I don't use it so I don't know)

I never had any problems playing HoMM3 on SP2, nor did it happen with SP3...

klaymen · Unread postby **klaymen** » 07 Jan 2009, 17:36

darknessfood: it depends on the games you played. The older game, the bigger chance to find the problems. However if the developers still exist, there is a quite large chance of a patch solving those problems

Horizons4 · Unread postby **Horizons4** » 07 Jan 2009, 20:46

Well I never had problems in SP2. But since so far it seems to work fine when setting comp. to Win 98, I am assuming that is the solution in my case. It might be different from the platinum, regular, complete editions of HOMM3 also, who knows

. I just hope this was the solution, and for now it seems so.

Koni · Unread postby **Koni** » 07 Jan 2009, 22:49

I hadn't any crash with Salamandre's WoG map, since I changed to Win98 modus. I t was THE solution of my problems.

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