Or 5 - GOG provide 3 differ version builds. Its just some clarification for other ppl - they have 4 way to play Heroes 2 - and all have own pros. Basically i just repeat what you say already. you described it most proper as possible: 'alternative reacreation', 'maybe solve', 'some issues'. I hope you understand want i want to say. It is jsut a thing - not possible to recreate 100% accurate. But they always bring new features and new issues (for old features too), fixed time-to-time. For this you need completely overhaul project. This one mod is huge enough to be called mod, bot enough to fix-imrove if there is something gameplay related needed to fix-improve. Windows version is better than DOS, and so than standard GOG and GOGGalaxy (in Galaxy client) builds. But first - try Heroes(2)GL wrapper mod.īefore it, try as is DOSBOX version from GOG - but configure it by yourself (default link\play lead to dosbox+conf launch file, but there is also seaprate GOGDOSBOX launcher which one if better way to start the game as well as basic re-configs for bundled DOS machine).īefore this try Windows native version that GOG provide and which one this thread describe (English only). I just tried it and after 5minutes play it works like a charm to me - cannot paste github link but look for fheroes2 All - every - such projects brings more issues. I found recreation of Heroes II engine - maybe it helps you solve some issues. HaveFun91: I just bought HoMM 2, but was struggling with different issues. Ofc I made my own custom soundtrack from disk audio into flac properly, because I prefer some SW music and some POL music for the towns. It is in Heroes 3 however! I think we can agree it is much better if we could make the winmm.dll resume town music, increase game atmosphere! Town music resuming is not normal Heroes 2 behavior. You could even use other songs this way, easily replacing the files in the folder. With a better winmm.dll we could probably make the game play flac files. The patch 2.1 hero movement stutter doesn't happen almost at all with Verok's wrapper! Windows version also has great performance without tweaks needed. Others have audio skips and pops due to DOSBox.Īlso with DOS version we cannot use Verok's amazing wrapper and the extra features like scalers and easy window mode. This is a problem with the final 2.1 patch of Heroes 2 Price of Loyalty. Many people have trouble with DOS version, for instance there is a big problem when moving heroes, they will stutter and stop for half a second, although my PC is powerful enough to run DOSBox with best settings. Winmm.dll is GOG's fix for the Windows Heroes 2 version for the same problem, they needed to make the game work without using real CD and without DOSBox mounting the disk image. The DOSBox that comes with this version mounts the image and ins file. Inside install folder you will find homm2.gog (image file of the homm2 disk without music) and homm2.ins (basically a txt file that tells game where MUSIC folder is). GOG made DOS Heroes 2 play the OGG music from MUSIC folder instead of CD. Old Windows CD versions, if you put CD in drive, should also resume map song. The normal behavior should be DOS version resuming the map songs only, not the town songs. The problems I am talking about are not related to Windows version differences. So our only good solution is a modified winmm.dll at the moment! Verok's GL patch great for graphics but I am not sure how it interacts, if at all, with the music. Second, it is a problem if you want to create custom soundtrack, it is much easier to change SW and PoL music tracks around when they are in the Audio folder and not create custom audio CD image every time. Maybe this problem doesn't exist for old CD versions but we are here to discuss GOG Heroes 2, either DOS or Windows variant to help people who bought this game from GOG to play it properly! It is great if people still have their old CD version but I think we should separate the discussion for those!ĭeleting winmm.dll and inserting CD image is not a good solution at all, because first you must make sure the fake CD drive is first cd drive in your system and insert custom CD image, and maybe you want to keep first drive for actual physical drive. flac so we aren't stuck playing low quality ogg. GOG version still has audio problems, we still need a winmm.dll that resumes ALL music on screen change (map and town) and perhaps allows playing of. It is important that we stop saying this. But Verok mod make it better (but this is exactly a mod, than just compatibility wrapper).
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