How-to: Heroes of Might and Magic 5 in Wine

Heroes of Might and Magic 5 is a strategy game released by UbiSoft (R.I.P 3DO).

First of all, insert the disc/mount the iso and start a terminal and go to the disc directory:

cd /media/cdrom (in my case)

Then you start the install program by writing:

Wine Setup.exe

The game requires D3dx9_25.dll to run (place in .wine/drive_c/windows/system32 and you might have to add it as native via winecfg)

The intro move will crash Heroes 5, therefore you must remove the two first Item blocks from the file Video/intro.xml.

Then you should be ready to run the program by directing to the games directory, and run:

wine H5_Game.exe in the terminal!



Notes:
To run the game in higher resolutions, you must edit the registry.
To do this, you must start "Regedit" via the terminal.
The go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Wine -> Direct3D and the following string value:

Name: VideoMemorySize Data: 640 (in my case, you might have more or less)