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Heroes of Might and Magic V

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Heroes of Might and Magic V
Heroes of Might and Magic V cover
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) (Cider) March 5, 2007
Reception
Metacritic 77
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack, Subscription gaming service
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select
Genres TBS
Themes Fantasy
Series Heroes of Might and Magic
Heroes of Might and Magic V on HowLongToBeat
Heroes of Might and Magic V on IGDB
Heroes of Might and Magic V guide on StrategyWiki
Heroes of Might and Magic V on MobyGames
Heroes of Might and Magic V on Wikipedia
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 2000
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: Clash of Heroes 2011
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 Online 2015
Might & Magic Heroes VII 2015
Might & Magic Heroes VII: Trial by Fire 2016
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes - Definitive Edition 2023

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.

Heroes of Might and Magic V is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view TBS game in the Heroes of Might and Magic series.

The first expansion pack, Hammers of Fate was released in November 2006, featuring the Fortress town, new creatures and campaigns. The second expansion pack, Tribes of the East from October 2007, was a standalone release and is handled in its own article.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
HoMM V section on Age of Heroes
Celestial Heavens - An active community site with guides, walkthroughs and more.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
SecuROM v7 DRM
Install patch 1.6 to remove protection.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
Russian Version.
Simple disc check
Install patch 1.5 to remove disc check.
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
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Gold Edition also available.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
CD key
Includes the base game, Hammers of Fate and Tribes of the East. Serial key for multiplayer shown in library.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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CD key
Windows
Ubisoft Store
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Included with Ubisoft+.
Windows
A free demo version is available from GameFront.

Monetization

Type Notes
Expansion pack The expansion pack includes a new town, campaigns, maps, and units.
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.
Subscription gaming service Available via 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
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

All patch installers are still available from Ubisoft's patch website.
Steam and GOG versions are already patched.
  • The latest version of the base game is 1.6. The correct order of patching is 1.4 - 1.41 - 1.5 - 1.6.
  • The latest version of Hammers of Fate is 2.1.

Skip intro videos

Edit intro.xml[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\video
  2. Open intro.xml.
  3. Delete the content between <Movies> and </Movies>

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

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

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video

Video & Audio settings.
Video & Audio settings.

Graphics feature State 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)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

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

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Simplified Chinese
Retail only.
French
German
Hungarian
Retail only, but language files available.
Italian
Not voiced in Hammers of Fate expansion.
Korean
Retail only.
Polish
Retail and GOG.com only.
Russian
Retail and GOG.com only. Patch for other digital versions here.
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

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

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D, 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.An alternate G3D profile (Dgvoodoo2) can be downloaded from the vorpx cloud.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
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

Middleware Notes
Audio FMOD
Cutscenes Theora Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000, NT
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 4
ATI Radeon 8500
Matrox Parhelia
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0c compatible
Other Broadband Internet connection
Laptop versions of these cards may work, but are not supported.
Nvidia GeForce 4 MX series are not supported.


Notes

  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.

References