While the previous games centered around the Valley of Mines and
Khorinis, Gothic 3 moves away from those locations to a newer, larger
environment. This story involves the continent of Myrtana, which is in
the midst of war. Orcs have enslaved the human kingdom with only a few
free humans living in the nearly uninhabitable icy northlands of
Nordmar, the southern desert of Varrant, and the mountainous forests of
the Middle Realm. Players can choose to join the rebellion and stay
true to the deposed human king, serve the Orcish usurpers in their
quest to topple the last remaining human stronghold, or choose a path
that serves their own ends. Every decision made has an impact on the
game world, and tips the in-game balance of power. Given the non-linear
storyline, every game is theoretically unique, with the player
ultimately deciding the fate of humankind. A number of NPCs accompany
the player throughout the game.
Old test results
The test results for this version are very old, and as such they may not represent the current state of Wine. Please consider submitting a new test report.
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)
What works
installing
patching (1.72)
playing , saving, loading
sound
movies
ORM=backbuffer (3rd patch)
mouse with (4th patch and warp to force)
What does not
ORM=fbo (glitches)
shaders v3 (glitches)
shadows
water, soft water
antialiasing
What was not tested
main story
5.1 ; 7.1 sound
Additional Comments
The game is fluent on maximum settings. There are some graphical glitches but not annoying.
Patches applied:
1) http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=19364
2) http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=21138
3) http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=21137
4) http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=15638
GFX: nvidia 9xxx
Drivers: 185.18.08
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PlayOnLinux
by NSLW on Saturday May 16th 2009, 16:09
Hello,
if someone is interested there is PlayOnLinux script [ www.playonlinux.com/en/topic-2584-script_Gothic_3.html ] which installs Gothic 3 (you even have got ability to patch to 1.72). You don't have to compile from sources (mouse and glitch free sky works) and the game (patched of course) runs out of box after installing.
PS. The script is very fresh and needs more testing so expect small issues. However it works for me.
PS. If someone knows additional tweaks/fixes it would be much appreciated.
by Roman Fomin on Wednesday December 24th 2008, 18:40
Yes, errors are not corrected, and apparently will not be corrected any more. I have thought, maybe we can organise some donations fund, and money from which, will receive to who correct errors and will spend optimisation Gothic 3?
New ATI DRIVER
by Brehm Wolfgang on Thursday September 18th 2008, 14:33
Hi a newer version of ATI driver fixes the scrambled screen bug.
BUT the grapics is so damn bad... only black-white on my machine without persons. And about 0,2 FPS...
My mouse takes 20 seconds to make a move.
Something went terribly wrong whith Gothic3 catalyst and wine.
But I just wanted to say that ati did something ;-)
Gothic 3 RUNS
by Brehm Wolfgang on Saturday September 6th 2008, 12:53
OK now...
I found out, that wine doesn't like catalyst < 8.5
Now There's the next Problem: The Graphics are VERY bad...
And slow like hell. I did everything on the list.
brehm-rv.de/reli/Schlacke/Gothic3buggy.png Watch yourself, this time there is a snapshot.
Greez
Funny Graphics
by Brehm Wolfgang on Tuesday September 2nd 2008, 7:13
Hey
I have Suse Linux 11.0 x86-64 with the latest wine version wine-1.1.3
And a Ati Radeon HD3870 Graphics Card.
I had strange graphics when starting the game after following the howto. It's very hard to discribe, BUT WHEN I TRY TO MAKE A SNAPSHOT, he funny graphics dissapear!!!
It's like the whole screen is scrambled into 8X8 Pixel Blocks...
I first thought it was about wine, but after recognizing that the Snapshots are normal, I think it's because of my graphics card.
Perhaps does anyone know a solution.
Greez
Wolfgang
Offscreen Rendering Modes: fbo vs. backbuffer
by Florian on Sunday June 29th 2008, 6:27
I just wanted to give a short comparison between fbo and backbuffer as OffscreenRenderingMode.
1. fbo
As you stated in the How-to note using fbo and setting the "DistanceLow" to 0 works. But then there appear other graphical "errors". There are little black crosses flickering everywhere, like on this screenshot ( bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=11344). The game runs quite fluently.
2. backbuffer
I set backbuffer as OffScreenRenderingMode. Then the black sky issue reappeared, as I expected. Then I remembered this patch ( bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=9619). I applied it to wine, by hand, because if you use the patch command it will fail. Then I compiled wine. I started Gothic with backbuffer. I can choose every option I want in the graphics menu and there were no graphical glitches so far. The game seems to run slower than with fbo.
So fbo is not the only way to be able to play Gothic3. In fact it seems to have a little bit better performance.
I don't know in how far this comment can be helpful but I think it's nice to have this pointed out.
2. open Terminal and go to folder where you saved dinput.dll.so
e.g. cd /home/username/temp
then type:
sudo cp -p /usr/lib/wine/dinput.dll.so /usr/lib/wine/dinput.dll.so.old
to make a backup and :
sudo cp dinput.dll.so /usr/lib/wine/
to change.
3. change path in activator to Gothic 3 adding WINEFORCEMOUSEWARP=yes:
e.g.
Name of target/focus not displayed
by Florian on Wednesday March 26th 2008, 8:46
Hi,
When I play Gothic in fullscreen, the names of the focus are not displayed. The life bar is displayed correctly.
In windowed mode the focus is displayed correctly.
This is annoying when I accidently steal things.
Any hints?
Black Models
by Florian on Sunday February 17th 2008, 10:33
Depending on some circumstances (I did not figure them out) some objects appear black, there is no performance loss, when this happens.I am running the current GIT(wine-0.9.55-208-gfd67f32) with a clean and new .wine folder.
Graphic card is still 8600GTS with latest drivers. With the new git i got a hughe performance win with Gothic3 :) and I can play it quite decent now.
2 screenshots:
florianschwade.fl.funpic.de/pics/g3_2.png florianschwade.fl.funpic.de/pics/g3_2.png
Cannot choose 1280*1024 as my resolution
by Florian on Saturday February 9th 2008, 6:39
Hi there,
I managed to get Gothic3 to work quite well now. Except one thing:
I cannot choose 1280*1024 as my resolution in the menu. If I edit the ge3.ini I get the following picture:
florianschwade.fl.funpic.de/pics/resolution.png The stripe on the right stays all the time. On 1024*768 the game looks very ugly, the other resolution is the native one of my TFT.
My System is:
AMD Athlon64 4200+
2GB Ram
Nvidia 8600GTS (NVIDIA 100.14.19 is the driver, the newer one causes problems in all 3D apps)
Any suggestions what I can do?
