Launch GothicLauncher and Steam Gametime - Mods with Steam

I started playing Gothic 2 recently again and was having trouble running mods and continue to get the Steam Gameplay time counted. There are a couple of manual steps required in order to get this done. You first have to rename Gothic2.exe into Something.exe, rename GothicLauncher.exe into Gothic2.exe, Launch via Steam (the Launcher selector will open), rename both files to their original and then press play. This will then count your hours on steam and you still can play mods.

Now that I'm lazy I've automised the steps and wanted to share them with you.

Steps for Launching Gothic with Mods

What you have to do:
Go to the system folder of your Gothic 2 installation folder (\Steam\steamapps\common\Gothic II\system) and create a .bat file (open Notepad and save as .bat, name is irrelevant), copy the following lines and adjust to your system:

REM @echo off
REN "Gothic2.exe" "_Gothic2.exe"
REN "GothicStarter.exe" "Gothic2.exe"
"D:\Steam\Steam.exe" "steam://rungameid/39510"
timeout /T 1 /nobreak
REN "Gothic2.exe" "GothicStarter.exe"
REN "_Gothic2.exe" "Gothic2.exe"

Please adjust the fourth line with your steam installation path! The timeout is required because otherwise the steam launcher launches the wrong game, you can set the timer higher if it appears on your system (replace 1 with 2 or 3, it's in seconds).

Now it's important that you launch this .bat file (you can create shortcuts to your desktop or add a Non-Steam game to your steam library) instead of the Gothic 2 of your Steam library.

This will open the launcher from steam and you'll be able to select the gothic mod which you want to play and in Steam the gametime is clocked. Once you finished playing, just close the GothicStarter window and also the Steam game will stop.



Hope you were able to follow these instructions, should you have questions I'll try to answer them! Have fun!

[Kor Angar]

Steam Overlay and Mod Starter for Gothic 2 - This pack provides full widescreen and Windows 7-10 support, Steam Overlay support and ability to install and play Mods!

[_Atr4Mør5]

Or just open command line via Steam and put this:

"E:\Steam\steamapps\common\Gothic II\system\GothicStarter.exe" %command%

Ofcourse you should change the path where game was installed.