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Gothic 3 1.x



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NameGothic 3
Version1.x
License Retail
URL 
Votes 52
RatingSilver
Wine Version1.1.21
Maintainers of this version:
Description
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
Test Results
DistributionTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?RatingSubmitter
CurrentFedora 10May 17 20091.1.21 Yes Yes Silver NSLW 
ShowUbuntu 8.04 "Hardy" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Mar 15 20091.1.17 N/A Yes Bronze ML 
ShowSabayon Linux 3.5Mar 05 20091.1.15 Yes Yes Bronze Sven 
ShowFedora 7 x86_64Jun 16 20081.0-rc5 Yes Yes Bronze Rico 
ShowDebian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny"Apr 26 20080.9.59. Yes Yes Garbage Grifen 


Known bugs
Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
6971 Mouse "escapes" window or is confined to an area in the full screen program NEW View
9717 Gothic 3 - shadow on the upper half of the screen NEW View
13856 Gothic3 - Splash screen isn't transparent UNCONFIRMED View
15791 Gothic 3 graphic bug UNCONFIRMED View
16500 Gothic 3 Forsaken Gods: Water textures not working NEW View
17637 Gothic III: Flickering black/textured polygones at some places NEW View
17857 Gothic 3 works in no OffscreenRenderingMode UNCONFIRMED View
17911 Gothic 3: Stripe on the right part of the screen is not updated in high resolutions UNCONFIRMED View
18497 Gothic 3: Failure at starting new game UNCONFIRMED View

 
Warning
Do not use wine version 1.1.25 it will crash (see bug 19219 ). Use a version < 1.1.25.

 
HOWTO

Installation:

 

- install the game

- install patch 1.6 (download)

- extract the d3dx9_29.dll from dx90c/Feb2006_d3dx9_29_x86.cab to windows/system32 subdirectory and override it in winecfg

OR

extract the d3dx9_29.dll from dx90c/Feb2006_d3dx9_29_x86.cab to the Gothic3 installation directory

- set OffscreenRenderingMode to fbo (see http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys )

- set the in game setting "DistanceLow" to 0 (off) otherwise there are graphic glitches

Wine version

- wine-0.9.58

 

Ugly things

- wine crashes after playing a while because it runs out of memory (could also happen, when casting a spell)

- mouse leaves the window

 

System:

- this runs with a nvidia card and proprietary nvidia drivers

- if there is someone with an ati card who has this game running, please drop me a line


 
Some useful information

FAQ - Useful Registry Keys - Applying Patches - git


 

The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.

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.

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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?

//Ingrish lol

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Work in progress, or ...
by Roman Fomin on Friday October 31st 2008, 20:12
Hi folks!

I tested gothic one year ago, and tried to play again it today. I just wish to say - "there is no progress in bug resolving".

Maybe bug-hunters forgot about this game?

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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 ;-)

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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

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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

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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.

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Mouse problem temporary solved
by Marian on Friday May 16th 2008, 12:10
Hello. With some help and modification I have found nice solution.

1. download dinput.dll.so (modified for wine-0.9.58)

rapidshare.com/files/115359174/dinput.dll.so

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.

env WINEPREFIX="/home/marian/.wine" WINEFORCEMOUSEWARP=yes wine "C:\Program Files\Gothic III\Gothic3.exe"

that will activate mouse hack only for gothic so other games won't be affected.

4. This dll is made after compiling just a wee bit modified patch of Denis Misiurca.

5. This dll is made to play in 1024x768 with wine 0.9.58

6. If I will have time I will make other dlls for different resolutions and wine versions

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Upper part of screen is black.
by Roman Fomin on Saturday April 5th 2008, 18:44
I set low "DistanceLow" option to 0, and override registrykey in regedit, but i'm continue see this bug.

ALSO, i use GeForce 6600 and wine 0.9.58

PS/Gothic3 is sooo slooow, on my machine, in Windows it runs faster, imho.

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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?

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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

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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?

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