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dalgo
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posted February 05, 2012 11:57 PM |
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Insufficient Disk Space
I am playing Heroes III Complete and I keep getting this error message:
'Heroes III requires at least 5 MB of free space on the current drive. Please make at least 5 MB of free space available before running the game'
I currently have 465 GB of free space available 
The strange thing is I have been playing Heroes III all year and this is the first time I have seen the message.
Any ideas how to fix the problem?
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Bersaglio
Hired Hero
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posted February 06, 2012 12:20 PM |
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Looks like You have too many game maps in Maps subfolder inside the game folder.
Try this:
1. Delete unneeded custom maps from Maps subfolder.
2. Move all maps from Maps subfolder to another location, start the game (with empty Maps subfolder), quit the game and move maps back.
IIRC the number of maps should not exceed 200.
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Warmonger
Promising
Legendary Hero
fallen artist
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posted February 06, 2012 12:29 PM |
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IIRC the number of maps should not exceed 200.
I have more like 2000. Main menu takes a moment to load, but nonetheless it works.
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The future of Heroes 3 is here!
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted February 06, 2012 12:31 PM |
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Drakon-Deus
Undefeatable Hero
Qapla'
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posted February 07, 2012 09:29 AM |
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Yeah I remember getting this too...I changed the compatibility mode to WinXp and it worked fine I think. I was running Win 7 by the way.
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dalgo
Tavern Dweller
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posted February 07, 2012 10:32 AM |
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Thanks for the help, I'll try that.
As it happens I am using Windows 7 but I didn't pension my old XP machine off so I copied a save game over and am still playing. What a tiny screen - and I thought that was so sweet when I bought it.
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Drakon-Deus
Undefeatable Hero
Qapla'
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posted February 07, 2012 10:50 AM |
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Thanks for the help, I'll try that.
As it happens I am using Windows 7 but I didn't pension my old XP machine off so I copied a save game over and am still playing. What a tiny screen - and I thought that was so sweet when I bought it.
Oh I still have my old machine with Xp, and monitor with cathode ray tube and all...
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Evaline
Known Hero
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posted February 07, 2012 06:57 PM |
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I am lucky enough to have a computer and laptop with Windows XP. Absolutely no problems with HoMM 1-4 Windows versions. And fortunately I do not have the possibility to test the game with Windows Vista/7 crap.
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batoonike
Known Hero
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posted February 07, 2012 08:34 PM |
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Don't you dare compare windows 7 to Vista!! It seems vista was only made to make windows 7 seem awsome compared to it.
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted February 07, 2012 09:07 PM |
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Drakon-Deus
Undefeatable Hero
Qapla'
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posted February 08, 2012 08:54 AM |
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I would go back to 98 and Millenium anytime..but hey I was 8....
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Drakon-Deus
Undefeatable Hero
Qapla'
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posted February 08, 2012 09:50 AM |
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Who says I didn't have Win Millenium in 2002? Good enough to play ZOMBIE WARS and Heroes II...
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OhforfSake
Promising
Legendary Hero
Initiate
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posted February 08, 2012 10:17 AM |
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Oh okay. Never mind then.
Btw. calling it windows millenium activates the feeling of recognizing, though I'm not certain if it's because it was what we had after 98 or if it was because of something else.
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ariel
Tavern Dweller
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posted December 01, 2012 04:00 PM |
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I think the problem lies in the use of the function GetDiskFreeSpaceA which give's wrong information about the free disk space. If you 'shake' a bit the files on your disk to alter the free disk space as seen by Heroes3.exe you don't hit the bug in the use GetDiskFreeSpace. So the solution of removing some map's in the map folder works just because it alters the free space.
In my case I have copied/pasted a big file in my disk and the problem dissapeared.
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dalgo
Tavern Dweller
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posted December 05, 2012 07:27 AM |
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Edited by dalgo at 07:28, 05 Dec 2012.
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Thanks for your help ariel, I'll keep that in mind.
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artu
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted December 05, 2012 08:07 AM |
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i dont remember exactly but when it does that you take out your games or maps folder out of the heroes 3 folder, you run the game once and then you put the folder back in and it's gone.
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go_titans
Tavern Dweller
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posted January 14, 2013 06:34 PM |
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I have had this problem many times, but early on I managed to figure out what the issue was, and it is easily solvable.
When the game was made, they didn't seem to allow for the increase in hard drive size that everybody now has. As a result, the game doesn't recognise a clean Gigabyte measurement of free space.
To explain a bit clearer: if you have exactly 10 gigabytes of space free on your drive, the game will say "you need at least 5mb of space free", cos it doesn't see the 10 gig, it only sees the '000' mb after the 10 and thinks you've got nothing left. So, if you add or subtract any amount you like from the 10 gigabytes, and for examples sake let's say you add a 100 megabyte file to your drive, then your drive will read only 9.9 Gb free, and the game will be satisfied. It will read the .9 Gb, or 900 mb and be happy.
Does that make sense? I've had this issue about 6 times now, and a simple adjustment of the available hard drive space fixed the problem instantly every time.
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Ghost
Undefeatable Hero
Therefore I am
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posted January 14, 2013 06:43 PM |
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I don't know why but you must delete one a map. If workn't you delete more one a map again. Maybe about 5mb. If not work, try other files. Too long time ago, not only Heroes.
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dalgo
Tavern Dweller
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posted January 20, 2013 10:37 PM |
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I have had this problem many times, but early on I managed to figure out what the issue was, and it is easily solvable.
When the game was made, they didn't seem to allow for the increase in hard drive size that everybody now has. As a result, the game doesn't recognise a clean Gigabyte measurement of free space.
To explain a bit clearer: if you have exactly 10 gigabytes of space free on your drive, the game will say "you need at least 5mb of space free", cos it doesn't see the 10 gig, it only sees the '000' mb after the 10 and thinks you've got nothing left. So, if you add or subtract any amount you like from the 10 gigabytes, and for examples sake let's say you add a 100 megabyte file to your drive, then your drive will read only 9.9 Gb free, and the game will be satisfied. It will read the .9 Gb, or 900 mb and be happy.
Does that make sense? I've had this issue about 6 times now, and a simple adjustment of the available hard drive space fixed the problem instantly every time.
That sounds like the problem alright because I haven't had it again. I'll know what to do next time it happens. Thanks.
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