Arcania: Gothic 4

Arcania: Gothic 4

Developers
	Spellbound Studios
Publishers
	Nordic Games
Engines
	Vision 7
Release dates
Windows	October 12, 2010

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

Key points

Poorly optimized, even with modern high end hardware framerate dips occasionallly below 60 FPS regardless of graphical settings.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Steam Users' Forums for game series

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/row

System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/39690/pfx/

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row

System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/39690/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General graphics settings.

Advanced graphics settings.

Input settings

Controller remapping

Instructions

Invert controller's Y-axis

Instructions

Issues fixed

Game won't start

Game has several problems launching especially with 64-bit Windows 7 installations.

Instructions

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.8 GHz AMD Athlon II x2 @ 2.8 GHz	Intel Core I7 @ 3 GHz AMD Phenom II x4 @ 3 GHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	9 GB
Video card (GPU)	GeForce 8800 GTX DirectX 9.0c compatible	GeForce GTX 295 DirectX 9.0c compatible

System requirements from official site