Hello fellow Linux gamers!

Here you can find informations about ./play.it, a tool building packages for Debian, Arch Linux, Gentoo and any derivative (Ubuntu, Manjaro, Linux Mint, etc.) from your installers for Heroes of Might and Magic games.
These packages can be installed easily with you favourite packages manager.

Download links and usage instructions can be found on the following pages:
Heroes of Might and Magic
Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅱ
Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅲ
Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅳ
Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅴ
Heroes Chronicles

We hope youʼll enjoy the ease-of-use provided by this tool as much as we enjoy writing and tweaking it ;)

Here you go for more supported games!

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Salut camarades Linuxiens !

Vous trouverez ici des informations à propos de ./play.it, un outil construisant des paquets pour Debian, Arch Linux, Gentoo ou nʼimporte quelle distribution dérivée de celles-ci (Ubuntu, Manjaro, Linux Mint, etc.) à partir de vos installateurs pour les jeux Heroes of Might and Magic.
Ces paquets sʼinstallent facilement via votre gestionnaire de paquets habituel.

Les liens de téléchargement et les instructions dʼutilisation se trouvent sur les pages suivantes :
Heroes of Might and Magic
Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅱ
Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅲ
Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅳ
Heroes of Might and Magic Ⅴ
Heroes Chronicles

Nous espérons que vous apprécierez le confort apporté par cet outil autant que nous apprécions lʼécrire et lʼaméliorer ;)

Pour plus de jeux, rendez-vous par ici !

Update

Better handling of WINE dependency on Debian-based systems (HoMM 3, 4 & 5)

Update

New supported installers for HoMM 3:
setup_homm_3_complete_4.0_(10665).exe
setup_homm_3_complete_french_4.0_(10665).exe

Hi, thanks for the scripts! I'm using the one for HOMM 5 Tribes of the east.
The game plays pretty good but after some time in the game it starts to slow down pretty badly.
I can only exit the game and restart it.
This happens with every graphic configuration.

I think I’ve seen this bug: after a random time the game slows down to some kind of slideshow, and the only work-around are to restart the game, or switch to another resolution (granted that you manage to navigate the game mnus without getting mad at its absence of responsiveness).

It didn’t happen something like one or two years ago, the last time I checked this game. So it might very well be related to some WINE update. (or a graphic driver update)

Sadly I still haven’t found out what is causing this and how to avoid it. If you manage to find anything, please tell me so I can update the scripts ;)

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Not sure about this, but this might be our bug:
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38166

I’ve seen this bug only on a setup using an nVidia GPU, is it the same for you?

Yeah I'm using an nvidia card.
If I find a solution I will let you know

You might give a try to the open-source "nouveau" driver if you’re using the "nvidia" driver.
Even if you don’t want to stick with it afterwards, it might help us to know if it is a driver-related bug.

Another thing would be to try the developement version of WINE (2.14) if you’re using the stable version (2.0.2) or an older one.
You will be able to switch back to your usual version afterwards, but it would give us a hint about wether this bug will be fixed in the next WINE version or we will need to wait longer.

On my side I won’t be able to access a computer with a nVidia GPU soon, but when I do I’ll run some tests to see if I can pinpoint the origin of this bug.

Update

Arch Linux (and derivatives) support added for Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East
New supported games: Heroes Chronicles (all chapters)

Update

Heroes Chronicles will run in a WINE virtual desktop on first launch, avoiding messed up display on GPU drivers with poor compatibility for low 4:3 resolutions.

On Ubuntu 16.04 I'm getting the following:

leszek@leszek-MS-7758:~/Downloads/GOG/HOMM3$ sh ./play-heroes-of-might-and-magic-3.sh
Using setup_homm_3_complete_4.0_(10665).exe
Checking integrity of setup_homm_3_complete_4.0_(10665).exe OK
Extracting data from setup_homm_3_complete_4.0_(10665).exe
Warning: Unexpected setup data version: 5.5.7 (unicode)
Warning: Unexpected Privileges value: 4
Stream error while parsing setup headers!
├─ detected setup version: 5.5.7 (unicode)
└─ error reason: basic_ios::clear: iostream error
If you are sure the setup file is not corrupted, consider
filing a bug report at http://innoextract.constexpr.org/issues
Done with 1 error and 2 warnings.


What should I do? Thanks in advance for any pointers!

It seems the version of innoextract provided in the Ubuntu 16.04 repositories is too old to extract the data from the new installer for HoMM3.

The following PPA will allow you to install a more recent version of innoextract:
[url=https://launchpad.net/~arx/+archive/ubuntu/release]https://launchpad.net/~arx/+archive/ubuntu/release[/url]
(sorry, the GOG forum breaks this link for some reason, you have to copy/paste it)

Here are the commands to use this PPA and install the newer version of innoextract:

You might have to switch your screen resolution to something lower prior to running the game (I do this with xrandr), or to find a mod allowing to run the game in higher resolution than 800x600.

Here is the kind of script I use to run the game in full screen:

Thank you again!

Hi, first of all thank you for the scripts, not just the HoMM ones but all of them.

I have an issue with HoMM2 under debian though; when I click the shortcut to start the game a small black DosBox window appears for a few seconds, then closes and that's about it, the game doesn't start at all. I installed the game using the script you provided and resolved the dependencies as well. I tried restarting the computer and reinstalling the game, but that didn't help. I didn't change any DosBox settings. Could you help me with fixing this?

A side question: You probably know there's now a Windows version of HoMM2 available for download through GOG. Have you tried testing that one under Wine?