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Revision as of 04:04, 20 September 2018

Gothic
Gothic cover
Developers
Piranha Bytes
Publishers
Egmont Interactive
Engines
ZenGin
Release dates
Windows March 15, 2001
Gothic guide on StrategyWiki
Gothic on Wikipedia
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

Key points

Use Gothic ½ — SystemPack to remove the 25 FPS cap, fix compatibility issues, and improve resolution support.
Steam overlay doesn't work with this game.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Install the version 1.08k patch.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Only sold as part of bundles. Install the version 1.08k patch.
Windows

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. Some 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 ½ — SystemPack to avoid this issue (recommended) or use Gothic_backup.exe temporarily to pass this area.
Install Player-Kit[1]
  1. If you are using a disc version ensure you have the latest patch (see Patches).
  2. Download and install the Player-Kit.
  3. Mods can now be installed. The in-game version number is changed to 1.08k_mod.
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

Change playLogoVideos setting[1]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Edit gothic.ini
  3. Change playLogoVideos=1 to playLogoVideos=0
  4. Save your changes.
  5. The game will now go directly to the main menu when launched.

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.
Use inextremo.VDF[citation needed]
  1. Download the In Extremo Mod.
  2. Extract to Data in the installation folder.
  3. Start a new game. In Extremo will perform during Chapter 2.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\system\GOTHIC.INI[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/65540/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/65540/pfx/[Note 2]

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.
Use other widescreen resolutions[2]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Go into system
  3. Make a shortcut for the Gothic executable:
    • If the Player-Kit is not installed, make a shortcut to Gothic.exe
    • If the Player-Kit is installed, make a shortcut to GothicMod.exe
  4. Right click the shortcut and choose Properties.
  5. Paste the following onto the end of the Target field:
    -zRes:XXXX,XXXX,32
  6. Replace the XXXX parts with the width and height of your resolution.
  7. Click Apply. Use this shortcut to launch the game with your chosen resolution.

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

Borderless fullscreen windowed

See Windowed for the limitations of this mode.
Set up borderless fullscreen windowed mode[1]
  1. Install the Player-Kit.
  2. Install the Gothic ½ — SystemPack.
  3. Set zStartupWindowed=1 in Gothic.ini (see Windowed).
  4. Set your desktop resolution in-game. Gothic should now display as a fullscreen borderless window.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
German
Italian
Available in the LangPack.
Polish
Available on Steam, despite not being stated in the store page.[1][3]
Russian
Only two translations, by Snowball Studios (1C-SoftClub) and Russobit-M.
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
See Helix Mod: Gothic [DX11].

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.[4]

Issues fixed

Black videos (sound but no picture)

This is caused by forcing anti-aliasing. Either method below will fix this.
Disable video card anti-aliasing[citation needed]
  1. Open your graphics card's control panel.
  2. Set anti-aliasing to Application-Controlled.
  3. Apply the changes.
Disable video scaling[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Edit gothic.ini
  3. Change scaleVideos=1 to scaleVideos=0
  4. Save your changes. Videos will now display centred.

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.
Apply the fix[citation needed]

Install the Gothic ½ — SystemPack.

Poor performance

Use Gothic ½ — SystemPack.

Access violation errors (Steam)

Disable Steam Community In-Game overlay[citation needed]
  1. Right-click the game in the Steam Library.
  2. Choose Properties.
  3. Uncheck Enable Steam Community In-Game.
  4. Click Close to save your changes.

Notes

Browsing to the game's Steam folder and running as Administrator will work as well, if disabling the in-game overlay does not.[citation needed]

Access Violation / Assertion Failed error when saving

This can be caused by deleting the saves folder.
Make saves folder[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Make a folder called saves.
If you want to delete saves in the future delete the individual saves within the folder, not the saves folder itself.

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).
Remove GOG.com fix[citation needed]
  1. Open Programs and Features (appwiz.cpl).
  2. Find and remove the GOG.com Gothic entry.
  3. If you are using Windows 8 or later, install the Gothic ½ — SystemPack.
  4. Gothic will now allow you to task switch at any time.

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.

Game reverts back to Miles Fast even after EAX restoration software is installed

Gothic doesn't see dsound.dll wrapper from EAX restoration software.
Create pre.load file, which orders game to load dsound.dll wrapper[5]
  1. Open Notepad.
  2. Write exactly dsound.dll to document.
  3. Save the document exactly as pre.load to <path-to-game>\System\
  4. Launch game, change sound provider to Creative EAX 2 and quit. Launch game again and check if sound provider is still the same.

Notes

Users with SystemPack installed have to change FixMss=1 to FixMss=0 in SystemPack.ini configuration file. SystemPack uses own implementation of restoring surround sound, which is purely software and because of that EAX restoration software won't make effect if FixMss is set to 1.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System 6.0k
Cutscenes Bink Video 1.0v

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, XP, 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel 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 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. 2.0 2.1 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

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Sui
  2. http://www.wsgf.org/dr/gothic
  3. Gothic on SteamDB
  4. Object's Problem ( G1 )
  5. SystemPack thread