XP crashes Heroes of Might & Magic 3.... need help plz!

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Hi,

I suggest you try running those with your desktop set to a 1024x768 resolution.

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"4th3ist4ng3l" <4th3ist4ng3l@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FBD0AFEB-0394-4D38-A6FD-B62AEE49F021@microsoft.com...
| After I installed Heroes of Might & Magic 3 on my laptop with XP
| Professional, an error immediately comes up telling me that the resolution of
| the program is too low for Windows XP to handle... what is wrong here? This
| same error appears upon running the original Half-Life.
|
| System Specs:
| Dell Latitude D600
| Windows XP professional SP2
| Pentium M 1.8GHz
| 512MB RAM
| Mobility Radeon 9000
|
| HoMM3 shortcut settings:
|
| 1400x1050 on MOBILITY RADEON 9000
| Compatibility -
| Run in Windows 98/ME
| Run in 640x480 screen resolution
|

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The game runs fine for me on XP SP1 with a Radeon 9800 Pro. My
standard desktop resolution is 1600x1200. So I imagine that it's
something specific to that mobility card's drivers.

Try going to Display Properties \ Settings \ Advanced \ Adapter \ List
All Modes and see if 640x480x256 colour modes are listed there. They
are for me. If not, then try a driver update, and if that doesn't
work, maybe try getting support from Dell.

For Half-Life, I imagine that you should be able to change the
configuration file manually to start at a higher resolution.
Unfortunately that won't work for Heroes.

Eyal

4th3ist4ng3l wrote:
> After I installed Heroes of Might & Magic 3 on my laptop with XP
> Professional, an error immediately comes up telling me that the resolution of
> the program is too low for Windows XP to handle... what is wrong here? This
> same error appears upon running the original Half-Life.
>
> System Specs:
> Dell Latitude D600
> Windows XP professional SP2
> Pentium M 1.8GHz
> 512MB RAM
> Mobility Radeon 9000
>
> HoMM3 shortcut settings:
>
> 1400x1050 on MOBILITY RADEON 9000
> Compatibility -
> Run in Windows 98/ME
> Run in 640x480 screen resolution
>