HowTo Play Gothic3 [Multi]-- Use THIS THREAD ONLY-DO NOT START ANOTHER!

[raymerjacque]

Gothic 3 - 1.8 NoCd patch

Ok, i have uploaded the 1.8 NoDvD patch, Complete with added tweaks and files that fixes some ingame bugs.

I have tweaked the hell out of Gothic 3 and I can finaly play it with 1GB ram and a ATI X550 (entry lvl to mid lvl card ) with most settings on medium and my game hardly even stutters, just sometimes in the cities. Out in the open this game is smooth like a babies bottom.

Inside you will find the following files :
1.8 scripts and dll files.
1.7 exe
custom 1.4 shader file
Custom animation files
Custom G3.ini file


Instructions :
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download the 1.8 gothic 3 patch.
run the 1.8 gothic 3 patch.
Download the no dvd patch from link below.
extract nodvd patch to your gothic 3 folder, overwrite all files.
play.



Link to 1.8 patch ( 60mb ) :
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http://update.gothic3.com/


Link to NoDvD patch 1.8 ( 5mb ):
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BYR15YU0


enjoy....


( before link gets taken down, someone with a descent connection please make a mirror )

[Joe Forster/STA]

If you upload it to GCW via http://ul.gamecopyworld.com, you'll have a very large mirror!

[Psychodelicuser]

Do the quality of the game will be lower with that patch, or it will be still the same?

It sounds like the quality getting low because of the tweks....

Sorry for my bad english

Regards

[raymerjacque]

Originally Posted by Psychodelicuser

Do the quality of the game will be lower with that patch, or it will be still the same?

It sounds like the quality getting low because of the tweks....

Sorry for my bad english

Regards

No, the tweaks have nothing to do with quality, you set the quality yourself in the game menu. Only things i changed were Cache settings mostly. the custom shader file does lower shader quality, but only for people that choose 1.4 shader effects. if you choose 2 or higher then it won't effect you.

Basicly if you play with settings on high because you have a super comp, then be glad, your game will be even faster ( trust me, it helps even super pc's stutter with this game ). if you have a medium or low end pc, this patch will make the game smoother.

[Tygur]

WOW! Downloading now. If this works, you're my new god! haha THanks!

[raymerjacque]

Originally Posted by Tygur

WOW! Downloading now. If this works, you're my new god! haha THanks!

uhm, i don't believe in god, but whatever floats your boat

[dooheht]

uhm, but this is not an official NoDVD v1.08, right? Looks like the 1.07 exe to me. Well, I cannot try now, because I reinstalled and don't want to touch a running system :P

[Tygur]

Hehe, I dont believe in god either, just wanted to thank ya.

I tested it and it seems to work fine, performance does seem better. Boars are now easily dispatched although I did a little less damage to orcs which I can only assume is because the armor fix.

Only problem is after killing the boars for the rebel camp, the game locked. Had to reboot my PC. I dunno if this is because of the crack tweaks or a game bug. Either way playing it was much more fun while it was working.

Now I have need for speed carbon downloading (legally for those who would assume otherwise) so I don't want to risk corrupting the download with more crashes. I'll try it again after EA Link finishes its stuff.

[Absturzius]

Thanks raymerjacque. This also works with the german version. At least I assume it does. I installed patch 108 and the nodvd patch and the game runs. Dont know where you see the version number.

I think it has made an improvement but I didn´t have much time to test it as the main thing I was hopeing the patch would cure hasn´t and as before I had to stop playing after a few minutes.

Dont know what´s causing it. A few minutes into the game (up to max. 15 mins) black shapes appear and random textures become see through and certain graphics stretch......untill I cant make anything out.

I had the same problem with another game, cant remember which. I thought it was something overheating so I installed sensors but nothing was showing hot.

Any ideas to solve this would be great.

P4 [email protected]
ca. 1,5Gb ram
Gf 6600gt

[TheMiracle]

Originally Posted by Absturzius

Dont know what´s causing it. A few minutes into the game (up to max. 15 mins) black shapes appear and random textures become see through and certain graphics stretch......untill I cant make anything out.

I had the same problem with another game, cant remember which. I thought it was something overheating so I installed sensors but nothing was showing hot.

Any ideas to solve this would be great.

P4 [email protected]
ca. 1,5Gb ram
Gf 6600gt

Man!
download the XtremeG Drivers 9689 from Tweaksrus and play the game, without OC the card. And make sure you have selected Shader 2.0 or 1.4, not 3.0, If you selected 1.4, do not turn DOF o OE, if you use 2.0 , turn on OE in the Post Procesing settings!

Max.-

[smoken]

Originally Posted by raymerjacque

Gothic 3 - 1.8 NoCd patch

Ok, i have uploaded the 1.8 NoDvD patch, Complete with added tweaks and files that fixes some ingame bugs.

I have tweaked the hell out of Gothic 3 and I can finaly play it with 1GB ram and a ATI X550 (entry lvl to mid lvl card ) with most settings on medium and my game hardly even stutters, just sometimes in the cities. Out in the open this game is smooth like a babies bottom.

Inside you will find the following files :
1.8 scripts and dll files.
1.7 exe
custom 1.4 shader file
Custom animation files
Custom G3.ini file


Instructions :
-------------
download the 1.8 gothic 3 patch.
run the 1.8 gothic 3 patch.
Download the no dvd patch from link below.
extract nodvd patch to your gothic 3 folder, overwrite all files.
play.



Link to 1.8 patch ( 60mb ) :
---------------------------
http://update.gothic3.com/


Link to NoDvD patch 1.8 ( 5mb ):
---------------------------------
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BYR15YU0


enjoy....


( before link gets taken down, someone with a descent connection please make a mirror )

About the _compiledAnimation folder, do we just copy the whole folder in GothicIII\Data or just the files inside it?

[grayx]

Well, you can try http://www.gothic-3.ru/files/Gothic3_noCD_1.8b.rar

[Gabriel Mury]

So, after you guys installed the patch and used this NODVD, tell me three things:

1- How is the lensflare bug?

2-How is combat against animals?

3-Are the amount of enemies in Nordmar reduced?

[davedave]

Hey guys!

I`ve got Gothic 3 1.8 [Multi] working with the full patch.
Everything you need is a Virtual CD 8 image of Gothic 3 and the fixed image from GCW.

If you mount the fixed image and start Gothic 3, the mounted image will be dismounted. And the game will not start.

I went into the Virtual CD 8-installation folder, looking for a file through Gothic 3 gets control of the mounted image.
If you rename the dll "vc8api.dll" in the ...\Virtual CD v8\System-folder to what ever you want, Gothic 3 can`t dismount the image.
So you can play every version of Gothic 3 [Multi] without changing any game-files.

Am I good? ;-)

[Gabriel Mury]

Originally Posted by davedave

Hey guys!

I`ve got Gothic 3 1.8 [Multi] working with the full patch.
Everything you need is a Virtual CD 8 image of Gothic 3 and the fixed image from GCW.

If you mount the fixed image and start Gothic 3, the mounted image will be dismounted. And the game will not start.

I went into the Virtual CD 8-installation folder, looking for a file through Gothic 3 gets control of the mounted image.
If you rename the dll "vc8api.dll" in the ...\Virtual CD v8\System-folder to what ever you want, Gothic 3 can`t dismount the image.
So you can play every version of Gothic 3 [Multi] without changing any game-files.

Am I good? ;-)

I did everything you said but the game won't start. It keeps asking for the original CD and sometimes there's an error with a DLL file. I tried for 40 minutes but it didn' t work.