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Gothic
Gothic	2001
Gothic II	2002
Gothic 3	2006
Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods	2008
Arcania: Gothic 4	2010
Arcania: Fall of Setarrif	2011
Gothic Playable Teaser	2019
The Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos (unofficial mod)	2021
Gothic 1 Remake	TBA

The Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos is a singleplayer RPG and open world game in the Gothic series.

General information

Official Discord server

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Official website
GOG.com
Steam

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Polish Voice-Over Pack	Free.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\system\*.ini^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1467450/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\saves_thechroniclesofmyrtana^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1467450/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See Windowed. Use screen resolution for borderless windowed fullscreen mode.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

Windowed

Task-switching may cause repeated Tab ↹ input when you return to the game (simply press Tab ↹ again to make it work normally).

Task-switching during video cutscenes will crash the game (there are only a few of these).

Change zStartupWindowed setting^[1]
Run the game at least once. Go to the configuration file(s) location. Edit `gothic.ini` Change `zStartupWindowed=0` to `zStartupWindowed=1` Change `scaleVideos=1` to `scaleVideos=0` (otherwise videos render in the corner of the screen). Save your changes.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
Czech
English
German
Italian
Polish
Russian
Latin American Spanish
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7	Fan-made D3D11 renderer available here.
Shader Model support	1	Shader Model 5 requires fan-made D3D11 renderer available here.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	10
Processor (CPU)	2.0 GHz Dual Core	Intel Core i5-750 AMD Phenom II
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	6 GB
Video card (GPU)	256 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 AMD Radeon R9 280X DirectX 11 compatible

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (1467450) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

↑ Verified by User:Suicide machine on 2021-12-11

[gamedir-1] 1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[Proton_path_note-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (1467450) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[3] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[4] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[5] The app ID (1467450) may differ in some cases.

[6] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[7] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[3] Verified by User:Suicide machine on 2021-12-11

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

[1]

@@ Line 58: / Line 58: @@
 {{Availability/row| GOG.com | the_chronicles_of_myrtana_archolos | DRM-free | | | Windows }}
 {{Availability/row| Steam | 1467450 | Steam | | | Windows }}
+}}
+{{DLC|
+{{DLC/row| Polish Voice-Over Pack | Free. | Windows }}
 }}
@@ Line 63: / Line 67: @@
 ===Configuration file(s) location===
 {{Game data|
-{{Game data/config|Windows|}}
+{{Game data/config|Windows|{{p|game}}\system\*.ini}}
 }}
 ===Save game data location===
 {{Game data|
-{{Game data/saves|Windows|}}
+{{Game data/saves|Windows|{{p|game}}\saves_thechroniclesofmyrtana}}
 }}
@@ Line 77: / Line 81: @@
 |epic games launcher       =
 |epic games launcher notes =
-|gog galaxy                = unknown
+|gog galaxy                = false
 |gog galaxy notes          =
 |origin                    =
 |origin notes              =
-|steam cloud               = unknown
+|steam cloud               = false
 |steam cloud notes         =
 |ubisoft connect           =
@@ Line 114: / Line 118: @@
 |antialiasing               = unknown
 |antialiasing notes         =
+|upscaling                  = unknown
+|upscaling tech             =
+|upscaling notes            =
 |vsync                      = unknown
 |vsync notes                =
@@ Line 143: / Line 150: @@
 ==Input==
 {{Input
-|key remap                 = unknown
+|key remap                 = true
 |key remap notes           =
 |acceleration option       = unknown
 |acceleration option notes =
-|mouse sensitivity         = unknown
+|mouse sensitivity         = true
 |mouse sensitivity notes   =
-|mouse menu                = unknown
+|mouse menu                = false
 |mouse menu notes          =
-|invert mouse y-axis       = unknown
+|invert mouse y-axis       = true
 |invert mouse y-axis notes =
-|touchscreen               = unknown
+|touchscreen               = false
 |touchscreen notes         =
 |controller support        = unknown
@@ Line 219: / Line 226: @@
 |eax support               =
 |eax support notes         =
+|royalty free audio        = unknown
+|royalty free audio notes  =
 |red book cd audio         =
 |red book cd audio notes   =
@@ Line 226: / Line 235: @@
 {{L10n|content=
+{{L10n/switch
+ |language  = Czech
+ |interface = true
+ |audio     = false
+ |subtitles = true
+ |notes     =
+ |fan       =
+ |ref       =
+}}
 {{L10n/switch
   |language  = English
+ |interface = true
+ |audio     = false
+ |subtitles = true
+ |notes     =
+ |fan       =
+ |ref       =
+}}
+{{L10n/switch
+ |language  = German
+ |interface = true
+ |audio     = false
+ |subtitles = true
+ |notes     =
+ |fan       =
+ |ref       =
+}}
+{{L10n/switch
+ |language  = Italian
   |interface = true
   |audio     = false
@@ Line 239: / Line 275: @@
   |interface = true
   |audio     = true
+ |subtitles = true
+ |notes     =
+ |fan       =
+ |ref       =
+}}
+{{L10n/switch
+ |language  = Russian
+ |interface = true
+ |audio     = true
+ |subtitles = true
+ |notes     =
+ |fan       =
+ |ref       =
+}}
+{{L10n/switch
+ |language  = Spanish - Latin America
+ |interface = true
+ |audio     = false
+ |subtitles = true
+ |notes     =
+ |fan       =
+ |ref       =
+}}
+{{L10n/switch
+ |language  = Spanish - Spain
+ |interface = true
+ |audio     = false
   |subtitles = true
   |notes     =
@@ Line 249: / Line 312: @@
 ===API===
 {{API
-|direct3d versions      =
+|direct3d versions      = 7
-|direct3d notes         =
+|direct3d notes         = Fan-made D3D11 renderer available [https://github.com/SaiyansKing/GD3D11 here].
 |directdraw versions    =
 |directdraw notes       =
@@ Line 269: / Line 332: @@
 |dos modes              =
 |dos modes notes        =
-|shader model versions  =
+|shader model versions  = 1
-|shader model notes     =
+|shader model notes     = Shader Model 5 requires fan-made D3D11 renderer available [https://github.com/SaiyansKing/GD3D11 here].
 |windows 32-bit exe     = true
 |windows 64-bit exe     = false
@@ Line 291: / Line 354: @@
 |physics          =
 |physics notes    =
-|audio            =
+|audio            = Miles Sound System
 |audio notes      =
 |interface        =
@@ Line 297: / Line 360: @@
 |input            =
 |input notes      =
-|cutscenes        =
+|cutscenes        = Bink Video
 |cutscenes notes  =
 |multiplayer      =
@@ Line 329: / Line 392: @@
 {{References}}
-[[Category:GOG.com Enhancement Project]]
+{{GOG.com Enhancement Project}}

Developers

	The Chronicles of Myrtana Team
Engines
	ZenGin
Release dates
Windows	December 10, 2021
Taxonomy
Monetization	Freeware
Modes	Singleplayer
Genres	RPG, Open world
Series	Gothic