Key points
- For Windows 8 apply the fullscreen border fix.
General information
- Steam Users' Forums for game series
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
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- The Gold Edition includes the Night of the Raven expansion.
Improvements
Patch v1.30 / Add-on Patch 2.6 (German retail)
The latest retail patches for the German version are Patch v1.30 for the base Gothic II and Add-on Patch 2.6 for the Night of the Raven expansion. All English versions and German digital distribution versions already include the latest patches.
Disable intro videos
Game data
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Video settings
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- Gothic II has native support for 1280x720, 1280x768, 1280x800, and 1440x900. For other widescreen resolutions, do the following:
- 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).
- See Windowed for the limitations of this mode.
Open Gothic.ini and change zTexAnisotropicFiltering=0
to zTexAnisotropicFiltering=1
. This is only an on/off setting; if it doesn't work or you want a higher setting, force it using your video card's control panel.
Open Gothic.ini and change zVidEnableAntiAliasing=0
to zVidEnableAntiAliasing=1
. This is only an on/off setting. Forcing a higher setting from the video card's control panel may cause black videos (sound but no picture).
Input settings
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Gothic II has limited native controller support which can be enabled by editing Gothic.ini and changing enableJoystick=0
to enableJoystick=1
; note that some axes might not be detected and some inputs cannot be set to controller axes, e.g. camera controls. For best results you will probably want to use a different solution as well as or instead of the game's own controller support; see the controller with keyboard-only game page for details.
Audio settings
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Issues fixed
Black videos (sound but no picture)
- This is caused by forcing anti-aliasing. Either method below will fix this.
Fullscreen border (Windows 8)
- Gothic and Gothic II show a window border in fullscreen mode on Windows 8.
Poor performance (Windows 8)
- Gothic II may have poor performance on Windows 8, e.g. a low frame rate.
"C: maximum texture size is lower than 32" error
- This error happens if Gothic II isn't able to automatically change to 32-bit color mode.
System requirements
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References