How to play HoMM 3 Complete and HotA with HD mod on MacOS via Whisky

Whisky provides a clean and easy to use graphical wrapper for Wine built in native SwiftUI. You can make and manage bottles, install and run Windows apps and games, and unlock the full potential of your Mac with no technical knowledge required. Whisky is built on top of CrossOver 22.1.1, and Apple’s own Game Porting Toolkit.


important

The game is available on GOG and it is the Complete Edition which is the definite version. The Steam version is using the HD “remaster” which is not recommended and not tested.


note

The popular community mods HoMM3 HD mod and Horn of the Abyss are supported and recommended.

Setup

Prerequisites:

  1. Buy the game from GOG if you don’t have it yet. Heroes 3 purchase page on GOG
  2. Download the offline backup installers from GOG.
  3. (optional) Download HoMM3 HD mod
  4. (optional) Download Horn of the Abyss

Installation:

  1. create new bottle (win7) and follow all installation instructions (roseta, wine, etc.)
  2. run the heroes 3 installation
  3. (optional) run the heroes3hd mod installation
  4. (optional) run hota mod installation

At this point you should be able to run the Heroes3.exe or Heroes3 HD.exe if you installed the mods and run the game.
However, the sound is not working properly (slow, breaking). To fix this you should:

  1. click on winetricks
  2. dll
  3. select dsound
  4. run

This will open the terminal and install new drivers. After this you are all set.

Source: https://docs.getwhisky.app/game-support/heroes3.html

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