Gothic - Steam - SystemPack Patch

[MegalomaniacNG]

Hello,

Today is the 20th anniversary of the legendary Gothic game. To celebrate this we already announced news about our upcoming Gothic 1 Remake.

But as a further gift we are releasing the system pack version that makes Gothic playable like a charm on modern systems here on Steam. Its directly in the default branch.
If for whatever reason you need to go back to the original there is a public branch named "original" that anybody can opt-in.

May the Sleeper awaken!

[realmanfred]

Now G1 crashes during gameplay. When you want to fight someone and press spacebar or do other actions, it crashes back to windows with an "Application error - access violation"
Please fix it...was running perfectly before the update...

[Super Sava]

But sry! After 10000 years you released a patchnote to make this playable? And this patchnotes did a guy before you uploaded it on steam. i am so confused, because i wanted to play it in German. And now i must to play it in English. Why can you not do a patch without copy paste versions? Just embarrassing and you still want to make a remake? I am disappointed with such unproffessional behavior.

[Zyddie]

Originally posted by ㄴㅁㅍㅁ:

But sry! After 10000 years you released a patchnote to make this playable? And this patchnotes did a guy before you uploaded it on steam. i am so confused, because i wanted to play it in German. And now i must to play it in English. Why can you not do a patch without copy paste versions? Just embarrassing and you still want to make a remake? I am disappointed with such unproffessional behavior.

We already patched the language issue, please do reinstall if it is still an issue for you.

//Zyddie

[Nemesis]

Originally posted by ㄴㅁㅍㅁ:

But sry! After 10000 years you released a patchnote to make this playable? And this patchnotes did a guy before you uploaded it on steam. i am so confused, because i wanted to play it in German. And now i must to play it in English. Why can you not do a patch without copy paste versions? Just embarrassing and you still want to make a remake? I am disappointed with such unproffessional behavior.

Its just gothic who cares

[Super Sava]

im sry i didnt see thx :D :D and sry for my hate. it was because you could do a new patchversion with a cool look. it would have been nice to surprise us.

[Nemesis]

Originally posted by ㄴㅁㅍㅁ:

im sry i didnt see thx :D :D and sry for my hate. it was because you could do a new patchversion with a cool look. it would have been nice to surprise us.

Now you got it good dog. Hail THQ!

[Twinkie House]

lol i just finished my first playthrough a few months ago but this is awesome

also jfc you nerds will ♥♥♥♥♥ about ANYTHING

[Photonboy]

*My exact, tested fix + texture MOD instructions for those who care (copy text to notepad for reference)*
NOTE: trying to launch vanilla Gothic just hangs up. The "update" also hung up. had to open Task Manager to force "Gothic.exe" to shut down.
NOTE: Don't try to launch game until after "G1Classic-SystemPack-1.8.exe" is installed
NOTE: no way to force game NOT to update like a few years ago. Why, Valve?
NOTE: Don't try to "verify" game content after applying mods

1) Download "GOthic SystemPack 1.8"
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1723-gothic-systempack/
2) Steam->Gothic->Properties-Betas...roll back Steam to "OriginalRelease"
3) "VERIFY" game just to be safe

4) install Gothic Patch 1.08k (run "gothic_patch_108k.exe")
5) install gothic1_playerkit-1.08k.exe
6) install Gothic1_PlayerKit-2.8.exe
7) install G1Classic-SystemPack-1.8.exe
8) Gothic should launch now!

9) Change Gothic game settings
(hit "Enter" after changing resolution as going "back" won't do it... audio to 44Hz, Keyboard to "Alternative" for W,S,A,D keys.. I use "CTRL+W" to pick up stuff while running around with W,S,A,D + mouse)
RESOLUTION Notes:
a) cut scene size shrinks as res increases
b) if not fullscreen, ensure either monitor scales by aspect, or video control panel set to scale on GPU by aspect (applies to other games too. if in doubt, just set MONITOR to scale by aspect and nvideo driver to perform scaling on MONITOR.)
c) anything BELOW 3840x2160 maximum res without issues? (higher ones cause me cursor and flashing HUD issues)
d) if CURSOR won't go away, may need to restart game (save if needed)
10) VSYNC works fine for 60Hz monitor.. no screen tear and locked to 60FPS
(if you have GSync/Freesync may wish to cap at 60FPS if you get issues. no idea but many older games do get problems at higher FPS)

11) extract, then copy and paste "G1 TextureMix by ARTstuff.vdf" into "Gothic->Data" (steam->steamapps->common) folder.
Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/gothic/mods/9?tab=files
12) verify textures changed in game (i.e. grass should be much different)

11) NVidia Control Panel-> Manage 3d settings-> "add game" (after closing Gothic)...enable "FXAA" for anti-aliasing (helps a lot), and 16x Anisotropic filtering which may or may not do anything... SAVE those settings (AMD users as appropriate)
12) KEYBOARD... small learning curve. I have to hold "CTRL" before pressing other keys. And MENU to move items around is a bit weird. Are CONTROLLER tools but I think keyboard/mouse works best for this game.

[Valvadrix]

Anyone else having a black screen with sound for cutscenes? It's happening to me. Also, this isn't proper 16:9 aspect ratio, it's stretched from either 4:3 or 16:10 and looks ugly as hell. When the game was unpatched, changing the resolution to 16:9 actually rescaled the ratio properly, so I don't know how this patch managed to screw it up.

Unpatched: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/678355124426637335/821657790699274240/Untitled.png
Patched:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/678355124426637335/821657823200018452/unknown.png

[Aruwa]

<3

[Noxay]

Can you please do this also for the steam version of Gothic II? Would love it because i have problems installing the fixes, i cant play the steam version for now.

[misthausen]

Pretty cool, thank you very much. Also for fixing German language so quickly! :)

[Sapirus]

It doesn't start on my computer. Details on my profile page. :/
Just a little black screen and back to launcher.

[mindBANG]

Same problem as Sapirus: short black screen after launch, than crash to desktop.

Here's the log: https://pastebin.com/Th6D6fRw

Seems playing back video file is causing the problem (opening binkw32.dll)

[KARPOWSKI]

Is there a chance that Russian localization will be added?

And the same question for Gothic II. The official Russian localization is already available on GOG, but for some reason is still not available on Steam.