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 | No | Gold | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 27 2010 | 1.2-rc1 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | |
| Current | Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jun 04 2009 | 1.1.18 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Mar 01 2009 | 1.1.16 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | an anonymous user |
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For working music, the following DLLs need an override with the "native" version (Microsoft's binaries):
The easiest way is to use winetricks:
$ wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks
$ sh winetricks directmusic
winetricks sets more DLL overrides than necessary. Remove the override for 'dsound', which would otherwise cause problems:
$ winecfg
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.