Screen Resolution CRASH

[Custodyin]

So, I've been trying to change the resolution of this game and every time I do, it just crashes, no explentation or error. Just sends me back to my desktop. Has anyone else had this problem and is there any fix for it? I don't wanna play this on 800x600.

[FeatherSword]

I'm having the problem, trying to play 1400x900 crash to the desktop. Anyone have a fix?

[FeatherSword]

I reset the res to default wich changed it. then I reset to 1400x900 and it kept. So i'm all set.

[Vargas78]

I had no problem setting the high resolution, it did it the first time.

[Skwert]

I'm in the same boat. Any resolution change crashes the game. Lovely.

[Ardan]

I remember having a problem like this a while back. Looked online and found it had to do something with a setting in the users config file under Documents/My games. Look under Might and Magic V\Profiles\Your Name\User and look for something called 'setvar gfx_texture_mip = 0'. Set it to 1 then save. The resolution setting is in this user file too. Mess around with it, but make sure you save a copy first. Hope it helps.

[revoluzza]

Hi all

I faced the same problem and here is how I fixed it:

1. Open 'C:\Users\<user name>\Documents\my games\Heroes of Might and Magic V\Profiles\Player\user.cfg' with a text editor of your choice.
2. Find 'setvar gfx_fullscreen = 1'
3. Change it to 'setvar gfx_fullscreen = 0'
4. Start the game
5. Access the video option and pick 1920 * 1080
6. Start a campaign game or any other mode that would bring up an ingame map
7. Maximize the window
8. Close the game via ingame means
9. Open 'C:\Users\marc\Documents\my games\Heroes of Might and Magic V\Profiles\Player\user.cfg' with a text editor of your choice.
10. Find 'setvar gfx_fullscreen = 0'
11. Change it to 'setvar gfx_fullscreen = 1'
12. Start the game

Hope this helps.

[nothing]

Strange how many people over the years have posted about this black screen.... and on my Windows 10 PC this bug happens but on my old PC that still has Win7, HoMM5 works fine.

going in and edit the config to tell it windowed mode instead of fullscreen got it working on the Win10 PC if anyone else still has this problem happening. (never got it working fullscreen just windowed)

[UbiBaron]

Thanks for providing that step, Hyattmeister, I'm glad to hear you were able to get around this.

Some older titles encounter issues with Windows 10, due to the change in how the OS operates. It can be worth running with compatibility mode in these cases. Which you can do via the steps here[support.ubisoft.com]

- Ubisoft Support