Heroes 2 under XP

gaspi2 · Unread postby **gaspi2** » 15 Jul 2007, 09:18

Hello everyone. I can't run H2 under XP. Is there any patch or some kind of program that solves this? I want to try this game cuz I haven't played it since I was 9:D

Qurqirish Dragon · Unread postby **Qurqirish Dragon** » 15 Jul 2007, 14:08

Have you tried setting it to run in Win '95 compatibility mode? I recently (finally) got my mother insterested in trying Heroes, and I started her with H2. It runs fine, although a lot of the sound was off until I installed PoL. Too bad, since I think she would have liked the operatic soundtrack of the original.

And yes, she is thoroughly addicted to the game, and she seldom needs advice anymore (on easy level). I'll let her decide when she wants to try a harder skill level.

Twilight_HP · Unread postby **Twilight_HP** » 15 Jul 2007, 15:26

I had got the troubles with running Heroes2 under WinXP on my laptop. The solution was to run it in window-mode, not in full-screen mode

Regards, Twilight,
www.heroesportal.net

HodgePodge · Unread postby **HodgePodge** » 15 Jul 2007, 15:34

Twilight_HP wrote:I had got the troubles with running Heroes2 under WinXP on my laptop. The solution was to run it in window-mode, not in full-screen mode

Regards, Twilight,
www.heroesportal.net

Thanks for that tip Twilight, and welcome to the Round Table.

PhoenixReborn · Unread postby **PhoenixReborn** » 15 Jul 2007, 16:43

Do you have any machine that will run the game? I have two seperate machines both with Windows XP and on one it worked and on one it wouldn't install. I was able to move all the files over from the one where it worked to the other computer and then it worked fine.

gaspi2 · Unread postby **gaspi2** » 15 Jul 2007, 16:46

I have tryied commpatibility mode, but not window mode yet. I'll try that but cd is at friend now:)

AngelEyes · Unread postby **AngelEyes** » 16 Jul 2007, 14:40

Funny this topic should come up, since I recently reinstalled Heroes 2 (Original, not Gold) on my XP machine for nostalgia.

Anyways, it installed fine and I was able to play no problem in Win 95 compatibility mode. However, when I installed the 1.3 patch, the game started crashing constantly after loading. I tried a bunch of things, including running the game out of DOSBox.

After a while, I got the idea of disabling compatibility mode and violla!, the game runs perfectly.

Now if only I could find my PoL CD…

MistWeaver · Unread postby **MistWeaver** » 16 Jul 2007, 15:44

gaspi2 wrote:Hello everyone. I can't run H2 under XP. Is there any patch or some kind of program that solves this? I want to try this game cuz I haven't played it since I was 9:D

What game version do you have ? (Original/PoL) And what executable version (DOS/Windows) ?

From my experience all windows versions run fine on any Windows(not sure about Vista though), the only trouble is seldom crashing while playing MP via hamachi

Alamar · Unread postby **Alamar** » 27 Jul 2007, 20:49

Is your opera working? IIRC my H2 Gold disc on XP just won't do opera

darknessfood · Unread postby **darknessfood** » 27 Jul 2007, 23:43

Well, i dunno wich version of windows xp you got. I've got Winxp Pro SP2, i only have to install it and it works, so that could ne the problem to...

Old_Man · Unread postby **Old_Man** » 17 Aug 2007, 07:16

I am able to run Homm2 fine under Windows 2000.

Perhaps turning computability mode on might help?

Armfelt · Unread postby **Armfelt** » 18 Aug 2007, 08:23

Hey all,
I hope that this is the right place to put my question...

I have installed the Heroes II Gold version on XP, but when i try to launch the game, the screen turns black (as if the game is loading) and the mouse pointer turns into the HII type of pointer. But it all stops there.

I read in another thread of something about a windowed mode. But if this is the solution, how do I turn the game into window mode?

Ps. Well the Map Editor, works atleast... And sorry for poor english Ds.

Please help, this game and heroes III rocks *old 486 memories*

Old_Man · Unread postby **Old_Man** » 18 Aug 2007, 08:26

I am not sure, but I think to change it to windowed mode, you have to press F4 or F5, I may be wrong though.

If that doesn't work, try running it in compatibility mode.

Right click on the games .exe file, go to properties, then compatibility, and run it under win 95 or win 98.

Hope it works out for you.

Armfelt · Unread postby **Armfelt** » 18 Aug 2007, 22:30

Ah wonderful

now it is all in order, thanks for the help and I must say that you answered really fast, 3 minutes!

Old_Man · Unread postby **Old_Man** » 19 Aug 2007, 02:29

Awesome to hear that it worked out for you.

No problems in helping you.

If you have any more problems with it, just give me a pm and I will try to help.

Have fun with Homm2.

gaspi2 · Unread postby **gaspi2** » 28 Sep 2007, 16:00

So hello again, it took soooo much time to recieve my cds

they were half the country away

(I shouldn't borrow him the cd again

)

So now, I tryed EVERYTHING you have written here, but nothing helps:(((
Nothing!
Please some other ideas I want really to play it:(((
window mod - nothing
compatibility - nothing
Please smt MUST work or I'll go mad.

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