If you want to start Gothic II with music enabled, you have to use the following native dlls: dmband.dll, dmime.dll, dmloader.dll, dmstyle.dll, dmsynth.dll, dmusic.dll and dmcompos.dll.

Because we are lazy and because there are different versions of those .dlls flying around, some of them making problems, you can simply use winetricks to acquire those files:

$ wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

$ sh winetricks directmusic

Otherwise if you don't want to use native dlls, you have to disable the music by setting the variable musicEnabled to 0 in [Gothic_2_Path]/system/gothic.ini .

It is possible to run Gothic II using the open source graphics stack, at least with Intel and Radeon cards. The "i965" (Intel GMA X3100) and "r300" (ATi Radeon 9500 - X1950) drivers are reported to work, others will probably work as well, so please test it and leave a comment below.

What you need is S3 Texture Compression (S3TC), a technology covered by a patent which makes things complicated.

 What you have to do:

- Get the GUI tool 'driconf'. For examle: 'sudo apt-get install driconf'

- Start 'driconf', either from the console or from an entry in your application menu.

- Find the entry "Enable S3TC texture compression even if software support is not available" and set it to "yes"

- Start Gothic normally and hope that it works flawlessly.

Since mesa-7.11 this should also work with gallium drivers without having a libtxc_dxtn.so.

There are issues, for example, the floor might be invisible. Leave a comment :)

If you are playing on a machine that uses PulseAudio by default and get the following error after enabling music it may be because of PulseAudio.

C: failed to initialize sound, MSS reported: Broken waveOut driver – ’buffer done’ flag never set

I'm not sure if disabling PulseAudio really fixed it because I messed everything up a bit, but if you have the same problem then this might fix it.

To use plain ALSA I created the file ~/.asoundrc with the following content:

pcm.!default
{
    type hw
    card 1
}

ctl.!default
{
    type hw
    card 1
}

Your card might be number 0. My solution is probably not the right way to bypass PA or set up ALSA (no dmix), but I hope it still helps.