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
(used the Gothic 2 Gold Edition, that is Gothic 2 version 1.30 and the addon on version 2.60, wine version 0.9.30 on Ubuntu 6.06)
installation works like a charm for Gothic 2 if you use Gothic2-Setup.exe and if you copy the files from cd 2 and 3 *beforehand* to harddisk (preferable ~/.wine/drive_c/CDX where X stands for the number) because I could not eject the CD, even if the installer asked for a new CD
installation for the Addon works like a charm, if you use Gothic2-Addon-Setup.exe
the launcher links to the game are placed on the desktop and in the menu
What does not
for both, Gothic 2 and its Addon, the AutoRun.exe files result in an fatal error:
title bar reads: "autorun.exe - Fata Error"
text below reads: "the file ./autorun.ini does not exist"
However, the autorun.ini file itself is there, it has just different capitals AutoRun.ini is beeing used.
the game; running
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/games/gothic2/system
wine gothic2.exe
leads to a 100% CPU-load for about 3 seconds, then fall back to normal. However, the game will not start or will anything else (like changing screen resolution). It will not give out any error messages on the console with the above command, just a new prompt. Even setting "musicEnabled=0" in $gothic2/System/Gothic.INI will not let the game start.
Workarounds
What was not tested
N/A
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
there are reports that Gothic 2 and even the addon will run fine with musicEnabled=0 (see gothic2 appdb entry v 1.30)
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 |
1631 | Sound underruns occur in directsound | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
3692 | Gothic2 Demo installs but wont start | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
7065 | Get SecuROM copy-protection working | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
7425 | Gothic 2 crashes without native directmusic | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
9501 | Window manager panel elements remain on the fullscreened game | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
10610 | Gothic II: D3D7 crash after playing several minutes | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
11366 | Gothic II crashes at startup due to unimplemented ntoskrnl function | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
12011 | Gothic 2 switches between fullscreen- and window-mode every time | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
12012 | Gothic 2 graphic glitch | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
15035 | Gothic 2, Aplication error - access violation | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
17578 | Gothic II runs slower and slower after some time playing | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
34166 | Fullscreen flickering on Mac | RESOLVED | NOTOURBUG | View |
37892 | GOTHIC 2 GOLD: Vdfs32e.exe crashes at startup | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
45661 | Gothic 2 crashes with music enabled without native directmusic | CLOSED | FIXED | 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