Gothic II

What works

all - installing, playing, changing resolution, sound (+ music), ...

What does not

nothing

Workarounds

What was not tested

whole playing, modifications

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

(*) First start of the game (or when changing resolution) crashes with access violation error, but all next starts are fine. I you want to play with music, you have to override DLLs (copy them from original Windows installation and overrice in winecfg) - dmband.dll dmcompos.dll dmime.dll dmloader.dll dmstyle.dll dmsynth.dll dmusic.dll. Else you have to set "musicEnabled" to 0 in Gothic.ini file (system subdirectory in installation directory of the game). (*) It's good to set also resolution in ini file to the resolution of your display (widescreen works too) - "zVidResFullscreenX", "zVidResFullscreenY". (*) You can also set "playLogoVideos" to 0 to skip the start-up videos.

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 :)

When using SPINE to get HD textures and DirectX 11 rendering you might have to download SHW32.dll and vdfs32g.dll and copy them to C:\Windows\System32

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.