Done.

The nocd patch never tries to access the folders on C:\My documents.....

I also see, that both version are searching for a folder SaveGame into the game dir.
If I copy my savegames into this one, that's not better :(

I have to say that I'm using a French install of Win XP.

Ah, found a solution. Dont know why but...
I have to copy ma savegames under the folder gothic3 into my game dir!!
There is also another copy of the useroptions.ini file into this one.

Yes thats well known for quite a time now that you have to copy your savegames etc into the root folder.

does it pop out twice in a row (like mines)? mines hasn't started once yet...

i got X3DAUDIO1_2.DLL, X3DAUDIO1_1.DLL, and X3DAUDIO1_0.DLL.

Oops, sorry. Didn't know...
Does someone knows why?

Because the developers felt like they have 2 do it. God knows why. But if you would have read the release notes you would knew. ;)

from the readme.txt that comes with the crack files:
Changes:
- Saves games and "UserOptions.ini" have been moved to the game folder.

Yeah I just have to keep clicking the shortcut, first I'll get the error but eventually the game starts. This is really strange because clicking it again shouldn't change anything on the system. There must be something really weird going on with the cracked exe itself. I only get the 0000005 something error.

for those who didnt get Pakhan crack to work you can try:
-install game
-install official 1.12 patch
-install community 1.5 patch
-copy over the razor crack for version 1.12, wich means you will loose the community changes over the engine.dll and game.dll
-then, from pakhan crack, copy only sapi_lipsync.dll, SharedBase.dll and vcomp.dll
edit: although in other cases i would never recommend mixing up stuff from different versions, in this case, the community fixes remaining work without the ones lost due to using old files (engine.dll, game.dll)

Perhaps someone will create a more elegant crack to the CP 1.5 later. (The game is still incredibly buggy though, even after one YEAR of patching and even with FAN made patches, I still get horrible graphic glitches, ambient sounds are still cracking, during the play the game will stutter more and more and eventually must be restarted, etc. I guess something went really wrong in the design from the get go...)

i suppose, then, that there is no actual solution except for the good ole original CD or a new crack or using the v1.12 crack (which somewhat "nullifies" v1.5). that sucks...

I've the same problem, I can't play in Gothic 3 with patch 1.5. Does the crack 1.5 work with polish wersion of Gothic 3 or I must wait for next crack relese, when would it be?
I hope someone will help :)

Yes, very strange... Anyone got solution?

Ive installed Gothic 3 + the Autumn patch + the official v1.2 patch + the community v1.5 patch + the Gothic 3 community v1.5 PAKHAN.

I installed the game in this order and so far no problems for me, my comp is nothing special.

but i did start with a clean computor free of gothic 3. I used "your uninstaller 2006" to delete the game and all registry entries that the games unistaller leaves behind before i re-installed the game in the above order.

Its worth a try, i hope it helps somone

Maybe it's CPU related?

What CPU do people have that CANNOT get it to work and what CPU do people have that CAN get it to work?