Gothic 3 breaks with Community Patch 1.75 (including solution)

[hsteel]

Hi, just thought I would post this here as I've spent three frustrating hours today trying to troubleshoot this issue and there was nothing useful on Google for this particular error.

If you have the Steam version of Gothic 3 (I have the Forsaken Gods Enhanced Edition) it does not seem to work on Windows 7 (64 bit) with Community Patch 1.75. It doesn't matter how many times you uninstall and reinstall the game and the patch, or in what order, it just won't work. You'll get two errors:

1. An error when you boot up the game telling you it has "found non unique filenames. please remove redundant resources"

2. A second error when the intro videos start loading - "Gothic III Forsaken Gods.exe caused a EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in module Engine.dll"

Why does this happen?

I finally figured out that the Steam version comes installed with Community Patch 1.6, which fixed a lot of the bugs in the game, so if you try and install patch 1.75 over the top it freaks out.

How to fix it

The only fix I could find was to use the 1.73 or 1.74 patch instead. The 1.73 patch has been verified as working with the Steam version - http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1050879 - and I can verify that the 1.74 version works with the Steam version as it's running on my system now.

If you have already installed the 1.75 version Community Patch the good news is you can just download 1.73 or 1.74 and install this over the top and it will fix what 1.75 broke.

1.73 Community Patch download link (scroll down to Mirrors):
http://forum.nordicgames.at/showthread.php?165652-Community-Patch-1-73-Download

1.74 Community Patch download link (scroll down page)
http://www.worldofgothic.com/dl/?go=dlfile&fileid=166

Anyway hope this might help someone else from tearing their hair out ;)

[Revelator]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/20500/discussions/0/617320168040054432/?tscn=1417214343

[Carver]

G3 with 1.7.5 works fine here on W7 x64. I've installed it multiple times after reinstalling the game.

[Azmodeus]

i have installed also Cpatch 1.75.14 on steam with no erros but i got gothic3 only and no Forsaken gods ther is two patchs out there 1 to Gothic 3 vanilla and other for Gothic 3 Forsaken Gods...

Are you sure your not installing Vanilla Comunity patch over Forsaken gods?

[Azmodeus]

Gothic 3 Forsaken Gods patch 2.01 http://www.madvulture.de/wp/games/gothic-3-forsaken-gods-enhanced-edition


Gothic 3 1.75.14 Vanilla Gothic 3 http://www.madvulture.de/wp/archives/category/gothic-3

[hiddenite]

I had 1.75 installed and working on a different computer, but I can't load the save games from before without the patch, or with 1.74 installed. So I need 1.75, but I'm getting the same errors.

Update: I got the beta for 2.00.16 through steam and now I can load my saves.

[frostmourn]

надо было мне пиратку погонять))