Not_you: printf "DDRAW.dll" | dd of=Heroes3.exe bs=1 seek=2475928 conv=notrunc

vv221: While this command works nicely for the English version of the game, it won’t work with the other localizations due to them using distinct binaries.

Here is an alternative command I tested (with success) on the English, French and Russian localizations: vv221: Big thanks for reporting your findings and workaround in the first place, as this is not something I would have thought of by myself ;)

lo_pub: Thanks for the fix!

It's quite annoying that GOG made this change. All this big talk about preserving games and then they go and render the game unusable on systems where it ran fine before.

Darucas: They seem to have made progress about this lately: Heroes Chronicles games retain the original .exe file along with the newly modified one. The original versions have "_og" added to their names. Just use these files instead under Linux and you're good to go.

studyofwomankind: hello... i bought gog homm3 (and gog hota) recently and i've tried all the guides to get the complete version working and i still can't. i'm running linux mint 22.2 and using the heroic game launcher. there are no "_og" .exe files that i can find and with the hd launcher method, i can't find the hd setup .exe at all, only a setup .ini file. the farthest i've got was simply moving the heroes3 .exe into the hota folder and making an hd version there from the hotahd launcher, then running it as an alternate .exe for the complete version--i thought this would suffice since it started running, until it wasn't able to play the animation for a campaign and left a black screen (with the story text scrolling below, at least.) because it wasn't able to draw from the complete version's files from the hota folder ... i'm curious if this is because i downloaded gog hota instead of from the website itself? and if i'm doing something wrong when inputting the command for the ddraw .dll method, as i'm not extremely versed with computers/coding. as i said, i did try everything that i was told from replacing the xdd .dll with ddraw .dll to the hd launcher. i didn't even get many error messages to go on, just attempts to run the complete version in heroic only for it to never appear (saying it's "playing" and then a couple seconds later, closing down.)

many thanks for anyone willing to help.

EDIT: i finally figured it out... disregard my confusion,