Patched version of Gothic II without Addon.
Application Details:
| Version: | 1.30 |
| License: | |
| URL: | http://www.piranha-bytes.com/ |
| Votes: | 7 |
| Latest Rating: | Garbage |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 4.20 |
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What works
installation
What does not
The game : "bad communication with service" error on startup. despite trying the various workarounds suggested here this error has persisted.
Workarounds
What was not tested
anything else
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | opensuse leap 15.1 | Jan 12 2020 | 4.20 | No | Not installable | No | Garbage | Schweineschwarte | |
| Show | Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jan 23 2011 | 1.3.11 | Yes | Yes | Gold | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 27 2010 | 1.2-rc1 | Yes | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | ||
| Current | Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jun 04 2009 | 1.1.18 | Yes | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Mar 01 2009 | 1.1.16 | Yes | Yes | Gold | an anonymous user |
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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.
The easiest way is to use winetricks:
$ wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks
$ sh winetricks directmusic
WARNING: winetricks sets more DLL overrides than necessary. In my case I had to remove the override for 'dsound' (winecfg -> Libraries) or the game would crash at the main menu: "C: failed to initialize sound, MSS reported: Broken waveOut driver 'buffer done' flag never set".
Otherwise if you don't want to use native dlls, you can explicitly disable music by setting 'musicEnabled=0' in [Gothic_2_Path]/system/gothic.ini, but you shouldn't have to.
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 :)
Azerty layout has numbers accessible with the shift key so switching weapons was broken and there is nothing in the settings to change that.
The workaround was to switch to another layout using : setxkbmap us
Changing it in the Gnome 3.22 menu didn't work.
This is covered by bug #30984.
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by James on Saturday June 5th 2010, 18:01
This is for Gothic 2 English, without the Night of The Raven Addon.
Gothic 2 Version 1.32 English
Ubuntu 9.10 x64 bit
Wine version 1.1.36
NVidia Graphics card 9800 GT
The game will install without any issues.
I suggest making the .exe file run with Windows XP compatability.
Launching the game however, is a problem. The first problem that you will face is the cd will not be read. You will launch the game and a message will appear stating that there was bad communication with the volume, and the game will crash.
Workaround for this crash:
Download a Gothic 2 game version 1.32 no cd crack. There are plenty that are easy to find by a simple Google.
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After this is applied, you will receive a new error. You will get a message upon launch telling you the vdfs32.exe is bad.
Workaround for this crash:
Download the vdfs.exe patch. How to actually make it work right is simple.
1. Run the patch exe.
2. Go to your .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Atari/JoWooD/Gothic2/System directory.
3. You will see vdfs32e.exe and vdfs32g.exe. Delete the vdfs32e.exe, this is the old buggy file.
4. Change the name of vdfs32g.exe to vdfs32e.exe.
5. You're done. Now your game should launch just fine.
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There is one more thing you need to do however. I ran into the issue of everything working fine except dialogue. If you have the problem where no one is talking, but you are still able to go through the dialogue choices, I have found the answer for you.
Go into your .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Atari/JoWooD/Gothic2/_work/Data/Scripts/Content/Cutscene directory.
You will see 2 files. OU.BIN and OU.CSL.
Simply change the file names as follows:
OU.BIN --> OU.dat.
OU.CSL --> OU.lsc.
Done. Dialogue will now work properly.
These were all of the necessary fixes I had to make. Everything runs absolutely perfect. Saving, loading, all videos and everything in game. Music will work fine too and you will not need to install any of the extra DLLs listed above.
If I run into any other things I find wrong and fix I will repost. I hope this helps everyone out and gets them playing Gothic 2 on Ubuntu.