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Gothic

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Gothic
Gothic cover
Developers
Piranha Bytes
Publishers
Egmont Interactive
Engines
ZenGin
Release dates
Windows March 15, 2001
Gothic on Wikipedia
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Gothic 1 Remake TBA

Key points

Game can be played on Windows 10 only with installed Gothic ½ — SystemPack, otherwise it won't work.
Use Gothic ½ — SystemPack to remove the 25 FPS cap, fix compatibility, and improve resolution support.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Install the version 1.08k patch.
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
GOG.com
DRM-free
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Steam
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Only sold as part of bundles.
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty

Version differences

The original German release included a performance by In Extremo that was omitted from later German releases and all international versions. Use the In Extremo Mod.
The Russian Gothic: Collector's Edition includes Gothic and the Diccuric mod.
The German Gothic Collector's Edition includes Gothic along with Gothic II and its expansion.

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest retail patch is version 1.08k. Digital distribution versions already include this patch. To check your current patch version look at the bottom right of the main menu box.

Player-Kit

The Player-Kit is required for playing mods.
Causes a minor issue with a gate near the end of the game; use Gothic_backup.exe temporarily to pass this area (see Gate cutscene doesn't play, gate won't open).
Instructions
Gothic will now show a mod selector window when launched; to have a shortcut launch the unmodded game directly, change it to point to GothicMod.exe instead of Gothic.exe.

SystemPack

Fan-made patch, introduces many fixes and features. Download and installation instructions here. Requires PlayerKit.

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Restore In Extremo performance

The original German release included a performance by In Extremo; this was omitted from later German releases and all international versions.
Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/65540/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/65540/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.
Graphic settings.
Graphic settings.

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Gothic only has native support for 1280x720, 1280x768, 1280x800, and 1440x900.
Instructions

Windowed

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 four during the game, not counting the intro and ending).
Instructions

Borderless fullscreen windowed

See Windowed for the limitations of this mode.
Instructions

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Polish
Available only in local retail release and as a part of Gothic Universe at CDP.pl.
Russian
Spanish

Issues unresolved

ATI 1xxx invisible inventory items

Inventory item graphics turn invisible on ATI 1xxx cards (the items themselves are still there). There is no known fix.
One potential fix is to add zInventoryItemsDistanceScale=2.0 under [GAME] in GOTHIC.INI.[1]

Issues fixed

Black videos (sound but no picture)

This is caused by forcing anti-aliasing. Either method below will fix this.
Instructions
Instructions

Window border visible in fullscreen mode

Gothic and Gothic II show a window border in fullscreen mode on Windows 8 and later.
The GOG.com version already includes this fix.
Instructions

Poor performance

Use Gothic ½ — SystemPack.

Access violation errors (Steam)

Instructions
Browsing to the games Steam folder and running as Administrator will work as well, if disabling the in-game overlay does not.

Access Violation / Assertion Failed error when saving

This can be caused by deleting the saves folder.
Instructions

Gate cutscene doesn't play, gate won't open

A gate in the final area won't open when playing with the Player-Kit due to the cutscene not playing.
Use Gothic ½ — SystemPack.

Can't Alt+Tab (GOG.com)

The GOG.com version prevents task switching to avoid some potential issues (e.g. crashing during FMV cutscenes).
Instructions

Constant Tab input after Alt+Tab

After task switching the game may constantly repeat Tab input; press Tab again to stop this.

Game Starts, but screen is black

If you have multiple monitors, disable/unplug all of them except the one that you're using to play Gothic.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, XP, 2000
Processor (CPU) Pentium II 400 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 700 MB
Video card (GPU) 3D Accelerated Graphics Card
4 MB of VRAM

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>/65540/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (65540) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References