Anyone running Heroes III and IV on Vista 64?

[savatage79]

I bought this bundle that has both games, all 6 exp packs, and it says its vista compatible but its giving me the cdd.dll screen when i load it.

I set the compatibilty to xp sp 2 and administrator mode, same thing.

What are some other options?

 

[r_manic]

I've seen a lot of people wonder how to run Heroes on Vista 64 online. Some can't get it to run, while others can. THe only suggestion I can think of is to check if all your hardware drivers are updated to run on Vista 64. If not, let me know if updating fixes the problem (or not).

 

[savatage79]

Well, i just updated drivers pretty much the other day. I dont have the 185s.

But what i dont get is how games like this wont run, yet another oldie i fired up, Icewind Dale, went flawlessly. It just is odd.

 

[r_manic]

I know what you mean. When I first went to Vista, something as old as X-COM worked perfectly (the copy I had was patched for Win 2000). But a more recent game (forgot which unfortunately) wouldn't want to.

I suggest you keep fiddling with your settings and looking around for more solutions. Failing that, you might want to even consider a dual-OS setup. Sorry I couldn't be of much help.

 

[savatage79]

Whats interesting is i went to a forum dedicated to MM and the Heroes games...and it seems for some reason, IV is just not doable on vista 64 at all. And yea i know what you mean, some old games fire right up...ive got a few that just worked nicely.

Im curious about that dual os setup, whats the deal with that? Also, they have no programs like dosbox for windows games?

 

[r_manic]

AFAIK, none. The one's I've seen online look a bit sketchy.

Running more than one OS on the same machine usually requires creating one partition on your hard disk per OS. Here are two great articles from APC:

http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed_first__the_stepbystep_guide.htm (if Vista's already installed and you want to install XP)

http://apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vista_with_xp__stepbystep_guide_with_screenshots.htm
(vice-versa)

Make sure to prepare all the XP drivers for your hardware before doing this, and don't forget to back-up! Let us know how it goes if you decide to do this