The Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos

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Gothic
Gothic	2001
Gothic II	2002
Gothic 3	2006
Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods	2008
Arcania: Gothic 4	2010
Arcania: Fall of Setarrif	2011
Gothic Playable Teaser	2019
The Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos (unofficial mod)	2021
Gothic 1 Remake	TBA

The Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos is a singleplayer RPG and open world game in the Gothic series.

General information

Official Discord server

Availability

Name	Notes
Polish Voice-Over Pack	Free.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\system\*.ini^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1467450/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\saves_thechroniclesofmyrtana^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1467450/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See Windowed. Use screen resolution for borderless windowed fullscreen mode.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

Task-switching may cause repeated Tab ↹ input when you return to the game (simply press Tab ↹ again to make it work normally).

Task-switching during video cutscenes will crash the game (there are only a few of these).

Change zStartupWindowed setting^[1]
Run the game at least once. Go to the configuration file(s) location. Edit `gothic.ini` Change `zStartupWindowed=0` to `zStartupWindowed=1` Change `scaleVideos=1` to `scaleVideos=0` (otherwise videos render in the corner of the screen). Save your changes.

Controller types

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7	Fan-made D3D11 renderer available here.
Shader Model support	1	Shader Model 5 requires fan-made D3D11 renderer available here.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System
Cutscenes	Bink Video

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	10
Processor (CPU)	2.0 GHz Dual Core	Intel Core i5-750 AMD Phenom II
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	6 GB
Video card (GPU)	256 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 AMD Radeon R9 280X DirectX 11 compatible

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (1467450) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

Developers

	The Chronicles of Myrtana Team
Engines
	ZenGin
Release dates
Windows	December 10, 2021
Taxonomy
Monetization	Freeware
Modes	Singleplayer
Genres	RPG, Open world
Series	Gothic