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Salamandre
Salamandre


Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
posted January 08, 2019 12:14 PM

igrik, the wog dialogue mod made my game crash after memory leak, so about every 2 hours of gameplay, when trying to display the dialogue. That was 4 months ago, dunno if a new version was released between?

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Bersy
Bersy


Honorable
Supreme Hero
posted January 08, 2019 01:30 PM

Quote:
I have one big outstanding issue: There's a VERY useful HD feature, Replayable quick combat, which seems to be unavailable when using Era. Does anyone know why, and how I can get it back (or something similar)?

Hi! Replaying battle is not possible in non-SoD/Hota, because scripts change a lot of global variables (data in memory, map objects meta data), which cannot be universally restored.

Bug with DebugEra folder creation is fixed, sorry for that. It was a mistake.
Bug with scripts not found error is complex. I'm fixing it, rewriting virtual file system implementation. Trying to make it compatible with XP, Win7-10 and Wine.

Latest HD Mod stopped supporting Era. Currently I can advice to use igrik's WoG Native Dialogs plugin. Perhaps, we will be able to cooperate with HD Mod's creator in the future.
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Heroes 3 Era and everything for it. Releases folder for releases.

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igrik
igrik


Promising
Known Hero
posted January 08, 2019 02:03 PM
Edited by igrik at 14:05, 08 Jan 2019.

Salamandre said:
igrik, the wog dialogue mod made my game crash after memory leak, so about every 2 hours of gameplay, when trying to display the dialogue. That was 4 months ago, dunno if a new version was released between?

Salamandre. I fixed the memory leak errors a long time ago. By this time, the mod was already updated 5-6 times and refined. To date, almost all dialogs have been rewritten (screenshots here)

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Salamandre
Salamandre


Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
posted January 08, 2019 03:26 PM

Thanks, will test

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igrik
igrik


Promising
Known Hero
posted January 08, 2019 03:38 PM

Salamandre said:
will test
It would be great.

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AnotherWun
AnotherWun


Hired Hero
posted January 09, 2019 12:31 AM

I see multiple back-to-back posts are discouraged here so I'm combining several followups into one post. If I should have done something else please let me know.

igrik said:
AnotherWun said:

There is still a big problem though: New windows dawn by WoG only don't show up.

Maybe this mod will help you ([url=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/t771vm40znr1qbf/WoG_Native_Dialogs.exe]link[/url])

WoG Native Dialogs mod
(WoG dialogues in native performance)
Main goal: support for high-resolution scaling when playing with an HD mod



Thanks, but as I said, it seems that all I needed to do was change that ERA setting "<Graphics.Mode>" to 5, and everything works. All that really should be changed here is that the "_HD3_DataSettings#default#era.ini" file installed by the HD Mod should have <Graphics.Mode> = 5 instead of 3, and therefore the era.ini in the same dir will have that setting when you first set up HD+Era.

Of course, if that gets changed, some other defaults should also be updated:
<UI.Ext.AdvMgr> = 1,1,1
<UI.Ext.HeroDlg> = 1
<UI.Ext.LvlUpDlg> = 1
<UI.Ext.SwapMgr> = 2
<UI.Ext.TownMgr> = 1,1
<UI.MsgBox.DblClickSelect> = 1

Note that all of the above is working stably for me, but I wouldn't consider it well-tested yet.

anti-victor said:
AnotherWun said:
I have one big outstanding issue: There's a VERY useful HD feature, Replayable quick combat, which seems to be unavailable when using Era. Does anyone know why, and how I can get it back (or something similar)?

Go to ERA: 100+ mods page 61, there is plugin for era replay battle, made by Igrik and he needs ppl to test it, so go ahead and use it


Awesome! Thanks, I didn't think to check in later pages of that thread for new stuff. I see that RerryR noted on Dec. 5 that there was one small possible issue (with end-of-battle scripts). Has anyone noticed that being a real problem with real maps? I imagine that if I don't want to break my game (or cheat) I could just not use the replay feature in such cases, which I expect will be extremely rare.

igrik said:
Maybe this mod will help you [...]
WoG Native Dialogs mod
(WoG dialogues in native performance)
Main goal: support for high-resolution scaling when playing with an HD mod



I'm not totally clear on what this does. (But then again I'm already a bit unclear on scaling in the HD mod.) If my fix (graphics mode 5) works, what is the benefit of your mod?

More generally, about scaling: In the "old days" back in 2012 or so, HD+Era2.4, I ran it on a 1920x1200 27" monitor, and everything looked/worked great. With current HD+Era, things were not so good until I changed the resolution to 1440x900, again running full-screen on the 27". This seems to be OK, and pretty cimilar to what I used to get. Should I have done something else though?

Bersy said:

Bug with scripts not found error is complex. I'm fixing it, rewriting virtual file system implementation. Trying to make it compatible with XP, Win7-10 and Wine.

Latest HD Mod stopped supporting Era. Currently I can advice to use igrik's WoG Native Dialogs plugin. Perhaps, we will be able to cooperate with HD Mod's creator in the future.


I was going to ask what could possibly require a VFS, but thinking about it now, that does seem an obvious way to deal with clean dir structures for mods, etc.

What do you mean "Latest HD Mod stopped supporting Era"??? It seems to be working fine. Or are you talking about the sort of out-of-date ini file issues I already mentioned, and things like that?

Thanks to all of you for the quick replies!
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igrik
igrik


Promising
Known Hero
posted January 09, 2019 08:57 AM
Edited by igrik at 10:54, 09 Jan 2019.

AnotherWun said:

I'm not totally clear on what this does. (But then again I'm already a bit unclear on scaling in the HD mod.) If my fix (graphics mode 5) works, what is the benefit of your mod?

The purpose of the mod is to support high resolutions from HD (the dialogues are made by standard tools HoMM3) and as a consequence the speed of run this WoG dialogs:

The benefits of my mod can be seen here (screens)
Monitor resolution               1920x1080
Game resolution (in HD mod)   1180x664

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Bersy
Bersy


Honorable
Supreme Hero
posted January 09, 2019 11:28 AM

Quote:
I was going to ask what could possibly require a VFS, but thinking about it now, that does seem an obvious way to deal with clean dir structures for mods, etc.

Right you are. It's for Mods directory. I was using high level API earlier (FindFirstFileA, LoadLibraryA), now almost moved to the lowest possible level of ntdll.dll (NtOpenFile, NtQueryDirectoryFile, NtQueryInformationFile, etc).

Quote:
What do you mean "Latest HD Mod stopped supporting Era"???

Afair, newest HD mod didn't launch with Era in 32-bits graphics mode. I didn't test the last version with some bug fix, mentioned in changelog though.
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Heroes 3 Era and everything for it. Releases folder for releases.

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AnotherWun
AnotherWun


Hired Hero
posted January 11, 2019 03:12 AM
Edited by AnotherWun at 03:16, 11 Jan 2019.

Bersy said:
Quote:
What do you mean "Latest HD Mod stopped supporting Era"???

Afair, newest HD mod didn't launch with Era in 32-bits graphics mode. I didn't test the last version with some bug fix, mentioned in changelog though.


Ah... That must be what I ran into, where HDmod defaults to using Graphics.Mode=3 (32-bit MMX) with Era. Changing that to Graphics.Mode=5 has produced a perfect result. I don't know why HDMod has this bad default for Era (along with a few other undesirable ones, which I posted about above), but it's all easily fixed. I'm using the latest HDMod with ERA 2.7.7, and as far as I can see, with these minor tweaks, it runs great!

Edit: I don't see a way to contact the HDMod authoer on his web site. Is he around here? Or somewhere else? HDMod is up to 5.0RC43, and it would be great to get these defaults fixed before the final release of 5.0.
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Bersy
Bersy


Honorable
Supreme Hero
posted January 11, 2019 03:22 PM

Baratorch (Alexander Barinov) is HD mod creator.
Email: baratorch(at)yandex.ru
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szaman
szaman


Known Hero
posted January 31, 2019 10:34 PM

Hi Guys Long time...
I have just installed the latest ERA (2.77). Everything works fine.. but i don't like the new music on the battlefield. Any way to change the old ones back?

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Ranger_Gelu
Ranger_Gelu


Adventuring Hero
Looking for Armageddon's Blade
posted February 02, 2019 01:04 AM

szaman said:
Hi Guys Long time...
I have just installed the latest ERA (2.77). Everything works fine.. but i don't like the new music on the battlefield. Any way to change the old ones back?


At least it works for you. I just downloaded it and it just throw and error and close the program.

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szaman
szaman


Known Hero
posted February 02, 2019 03:27 AM

Ranger_Gelu said:
szaman said:
Hi Guys Long time...
I have just installed the latest ERA (2.77). Everything works fine.. but i don't like the new music on the battlefield. Any way to change the old ones back?


At least it works for you. I just downloaded it and it just throw and error and close the program.


How did you installed? Maybe i will say what i have done before the installation the latest ERA.

-Delated the old ERA.
-Run CClaner to delete the leftovers..
-Dowloaded H3 (GOG Version)
-Installed H3
-Run the game adleast once (play intro without skip), play few rounds on one map.
-Turn off the game.
-Make a copy of this clean copy.
-The copy renamed to HEROES 3 ERA 2.77
-Installed on this copy ERA 2.77
-Run the game...

And everything works...
Maybe you should do it the same...

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Ranger_Gelu
Ranger_Gelu


Adventuring Hero
Looking for Armageddon's Blade
posted February 02, 2019 11:10 AM

szaman said:


How did you installed? Maybe i will say what i have done before the installation the latest ERA.

-Delated the old ERA.
-Run CClaner to delete the leftovers..
-Dowloaded H3 (GOG Version)
-Installed H3
-Run the game adleast once (play intro without skip), play few rounds on one map.
-Turn off the game.
-Make a copy of this clean copy.
-The copy renamed to HEROES 3 ERA 2.77
-Installed on this copy ERA 2.77
-Run the game...

And everything works...
Maybe you should do it the same...


I didn't launch Ccleaner. Maybe that would help if I'd do that. But should I delete the current ERA 2 I have?

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majaczek
majaczek


Supreme Hero
Work at Magic Dimmension
posted February 02, 2019 02:44 PM

gelu - it doesn't matter
you can have many copies of the game

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szaman
szaman


Known Hero
posted February 02, 2019 02:46 PM

Ranger_Gelu said:


I didn't launch Ccleaner. Maybe that would help if I'd do that. But should I delete the current ERA 2 I have?


You can try... But be careful with CCleaner it's a powerful cleaner tool. Clean your computer on default setting for safe reasons..

And yes delete everything related with ERA 2

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Ranger_Gelu
Ranger_Gelu


Adventuring Hero
Looking for Armageddon's Blade
posted February 02, 2019 04:43 PM

szaman said:
Ranger_Gelu said:


I didn't launch Ccleaner. Maybe that would help if I'd do that. But should I delete the current ERA 2 I have?


You can try... But be careful with CCleaner it's a powerful cleaner tool. Clean your computer on default setting for safe reasons..

And yes delete everything related with ERA 2


Well I tried that and it doesen't work, no matter what, It says something about like having another HoMM 3 instance running even though I made sure that none of that is runnin'.

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szaman
szaman


Known Hero
posted February 02, 2019 05:11 PM

-Turn off every unnecessary program..
-Return to desktop
-Press ctrl + alt + del --> Task Manager --> and shutdown everything related to H3 and ERA 2.

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Ranger_Gelu
Ranger_Gelu


Adventuring Hero
Looking for Armageddon's Blade
posted February 02, 2019 06:20 PM

szaman said:
-Turn off every unnecessary program..
-Return to desktop
-Press ctrl + alt + del --> Task Manager --> and shutdown everything related to H3 and ERA 2.


That's what I literally did. Nothing helped.

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szaman
szaman


Known Hero
posted February 03, 2019 12:24 AM

Ranger_Gelu said:
szaman said:
-Turn off every unnecessary program..
-Return to desktop
-Press ctrl + alt + del --> Task Manager --> and shutdown everything related to H3 and ERA 2.


That's what I literally did. Nothing helped.




That's not impossible! Restart your system.. this will shutdown everything that is related to heroes 3 and ERA.

Turn off your AV, maybe he is something blocking...
And do the same steps in my first post.

What are you using? A Stacionary computer (PC)or a Laptop?

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