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Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods

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Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods
Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods cover
Developers
Trine Games
Publishers
JoWood Productions
Nordic Games
Engines
Genome Gaming System
Release dates
Windows November 21, 2008
Reception
Metacritic 44
Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods on IGDB
Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods on MobyGames
Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods on Wikipedia
Gothic
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Gothic 3 2006
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Gothic Playable Teaser 2019
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Gothic 1 Remake TBA

Key points

Standalone expansion for Gothic 3.
Install Enhanced Edition patch for essential bug-fixes.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Install Enhanced Edition.
Windows
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Russian copies use StarForce 5 DRM.
Windows
GamersGate
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Enhanced Edition Patch 2.01 fixes numerous issues. Using it is strongly recommended. Note that saves from some earlier patch versions are not compatible.

Skip intro videos

Rename/delete logo videos[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Data\Video\
  2. Delete or rename Publisher.bik and CPT.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Gothic3ForsakenGods\UserOptions.ini
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/65600/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Gothic3ForsakenGods\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/65600/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Field of view (FOV)

Edit ge3.ini[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Ini\
  2. Open ge3.ini.
  3. Change Camera.FOV= to the value you want (default is 60°).
  4. Save your changes.

Windowed

Edit ge3.ini[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Ini\
  2. Open ge3.ini.
  3. Change Fullscreen=true to Fullscreen=false
  4. Save your changes. Reverse this change to go back to fullscreen mode.
The Windows cursor will be visible during gameplay.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

If some languages are not listed in-game ensure you have installed the Enhanced Edition.
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Audio only in Polish retail and Steam version; all others are text-only.
Portuguese
Russian

VR support

Issues fixed

Game slows down randomly

Change timer setting[1]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Ini\
  2. Open ge3.ini.
  3. Find Timer.ThreadSafe (if this line is missing install the Enhanced Edition).
  4. Change Timer.ThreadSafe=true to Timer.ThreadSafe=false
  5. Save your changes and close the file.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) Nvidia
ATI/AMD
128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/65600/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (65600) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References