Application Details:
Version: | Night of the Raven: 2.6/2.7 |
License: | Retail |
URL: | http://www.piranha-bytes.com/ |
Votes: | 1 |
Latest Rating: | Gold |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 4.5 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
all - installing, playing, changing resolution, sound (+ music), ...
What does not
nothing
Workarounds
What was not tested
whole playing, modifications
Hardware tested
Graphics:
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.
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Manjaro Linux 18.0.0 | Apr 23 2019 | 4.5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Filip Sutkowy | |
Show | Manjaro Linux | Mar 10 2018 | 3.3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Mr Test | |
Show | Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful" i386 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Feb 20 2018 | 3.2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Nicodemo the Hippogryph | |
Show | Gentoo Linux x86_64 | Jul 22 2017 | 2.12 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Michael B | ||
Show | Debian GNU/Linux 9.x "Stretch" x86_64 | Jun 29 2017 | 2.11 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Юрий Жаворонков |
Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
34166 | Fullscreen flickering on Mac | RESOLVED | NOTOURBUG | View |
48483 | Mouse cursor always visible in Gothic 2 with D3D11 renderer | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
48547 | Gothic 2 with D3D11 renderer crashes on startup | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
50261 | Gothic2.exe can't load native d3dcompiler_47 from GD3D11 dev12 or newer (application bug: wrong architecture) | UNCONFIRMED | View |
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 have to disable music by setting 'musicEnabled=0' in [Gothic_2_Path]/system/gothic.ini .
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.
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
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by Nicodemo the Hippogryph on Wednesday February 21st 2018, 8:13
Just ignore the error, the games launches anyway.
by Sebastian Eckert on Friday May 15th 2015, 12:05
by Sebastian Eckert on Friday May 15th 2015, 12:03
I got G2 running per se, but I got issues with the sound lagging behind a bit.
Also, I got problems with mods. ATM I can't see the Windows file system when running installers (which worked before), so I can't select the G2 folder. When it worked, I tried starting the mod via GothicStarter, but when I was starting a new game I basically entered a black-only world. Using another mod lead to the same issue.
I am using Gothic 2, steam version, patched to 2.6f.
by Sebastian Eckert on Friday May 15th 2015, 12:07
I am using wine 1.62 from the Ubuntu repos.
/Sry for 2x, can't edit my posts...?
by Konstantin on Friday May 9th 2014, 0:22
by Johannes on Monday September 27th 2010, 16:26
so as far as i understand this means ghothic.exe runs abolutely flawless but decides to do just nothing.
guess there's a VERY stupid mistake.
by Michael B on Thursday October 21st 2010, 16:17
by i30817 on Thursday April 29th 2010, 23:43
I also needed to set the color depth to 32 in Gothic.INI
by i30817 on Thursday April 29th 2010, 23:43