Documents\My Games\Heroes of Might and Magic V\Profiles\[YourProfileName]\ with a text editor like Notepad. Find and update the following lines to match your monitor: setvar gfx_resolution = 1920x1080 (or your specific resolution) setvar gfx_fullscreen = 1
Here is how to fix it.
Reviving a Classic: The Ultimate Heroes of Might and Magic 5 Widescreen Fix Guide (2021 Edition)
: Many players use the "HoMM5 Content Combo Pack" (available via sites like Rock Paper Shotgun forums) to port the base game and Hammers of Fate scenarios directly into Tribes of the East .
By 2021, launching the vanilla game on a modern 1440p or 4K monitor presented a grim picture: stretched UI, tiny menus, or, most commonly, two massive black pillars on either side of the screen. The game simply didn’t know what to do with all that extra horizontal real estate.
