Heroes of Might and Magic V

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.


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Subseries of Might and Magic
Heroes of Might and Magic: A Strategic Quest	1995
Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars	1996
Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia	1999
Heroes Chronicles	2001
Heroes of Might and Magic IV	2002
Heroes of Might and Magic V	2006
Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East	2007
Might & Magic Heroes VI	2011
Might & Magic Heroes VI: Shades of Darkness	2013
Heroes of Might and Magic III - HD Edition	2015
Might & Magic Heroes VII	2015
Might & Magic Heroes VII: Trial by Fire	2016

Key points

Online servers shut down as of the 6th of October, 2015. Multiplayer is available only through a LAN connection.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Celestial Heavens - An active community site with guides, walkthroughs and more.

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM v7 DRM
Gamesplanet		Gold Edition also available.
GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam
Ubisoft Store		Included with Ubisoft+.

DLC and expansion packs

A standalone expansion, Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East, is also available.

Name	Notes
Hammers of Fate

Essential improvements[edit]

Patches[edit]

Latest version is 1.6. The Steam version is already patched.

Skip intro videos[edit]

Edit intro.xml^{[citation needed]}
Go to <path-to-game>\video Open `intro.xml`. Delete the content between `<Movies>` and `</Movies>`

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Heroes of Might and Magic V\Profiles\<user-id>
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15170/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Heroes of Might and Magic V\Profiles\<user-id>\Saves
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15170/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video settings[edit]

Video & Audio settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		UI suffers severe stretching.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed	use DxWnd
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	Up to 8x through options menu. 16x can be forced through graphics card control panel.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)	On by default. To turn it off, use the "setvar gfx_vsync" variable under "user.cfg".
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Controls can be remapped by editing input.cfg
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Audio settings[edit]

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music and SFX.
Surround sound		Up to 5.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Hungarian				Retail only, but language files available.
Italian
Korean
Polish				Local retail version only.
Russian				Official localization. Local retail version and GOG.com version.
Spanish

VR support[edit]

3D modes	Native	Notes
vorpX		2D Officially supported game. Note: Game is currently not in official list, but in "local factory list". Game has not confirmed to be 3D yet.

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Type	Players	Notes
Local play	4	Hot seat
LAN play
Online play	Online servers shut down as of the 6th of October, 2015.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)			This 32-bit-only macOS game does not work* on macOS Catalina (10.15) or later.*

Middleware[edit]

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Ogg Vorbis Audio
Cutscenes	Theora Video

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000, NT, XP, Vista	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 1.5 GHz	Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 4/FX/6/7 (GeForce4 MX NOT supported) ATI Radeon 8500/9000/X families Laptop versions of these cards may work but are NOT supported 128 MB of VRAM	Nvidia GeForce 4/FX/6/7 (GeForce4 MX NOT supported) ATI Radeon 8500/9000/X families Laptop versions of these cards may work but are NOT supported 256 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/15170/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (15170) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

[Proton_path_note-1] 1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/15170/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (15170) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[Note 1]

Developers

	Nival Interactive
macOS (OS X)	TransGaming Inc.
macOS (OS X)	Freeverse Software
Publishers
	Ubisoft
Engines
	Silent Storm Engine
Release dates
Windows	May 16, 2006
macOS (OS X)	March 5, 2007