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Gothic II

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Template:Infobox Gothic (series)

Availability

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The Gold Edition includes the Night of the Raven expansion.

Issues And Fixes

If you got stuck in level geometry you could get out by using console commands or key commands in cheat mode. To open cheat mode type MARVIN on the character screen. Pressing the key F8 gives you full health and teleports you a few meters up. Pressing the key K will teleport you a few meters forward.

Windows 8 fullscreen fix

Gothic and Gothic II do not go fullscreen correctly on Windows 8. The following steps will fix this problem.

  1. Download the Fix Package and save it somewhere convenient
  2. Download and install the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit
  3. From the Start Screen launch Compatibility Administrator (32-bit), or Compatibility Administrator if you're on a 32-bit version of Windows
  4. Click Open
  5. Select the fix package from step 1
  6. Choose File>Install

That's it! You're done! Both Gothic and Gothic II will now enter fullscreen mode correctly.

Video settings

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Widescreen resolution

Gothic II has native support for 1280x720, 1280x768, 1280x800, and 1440x900. For other widescreen resolutions, do the following:

  1. Open Gothic.ini
  2. Find extendedMenu=0 and change it to extendedMenu=1
  3. Save your changes.

Launch Gothic II again and you will be able to choose your resolution in the video settings.

Note that NPCs may look too fat when using widescreen resolutions. Talking to an NPC will fix the aspect ratio until the next time you load a save.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Open Gothic.ini and change zTexAnisotropicFiltering=0 to zTexAnisotropicFiltering=1. This is only an on/off setting; if it doesn't work or you want a higher setting, force it using the NVIDIA Control Panel/AMD VISION Engine Control Center instead.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Open Gothic.ini and change zVidEnableAntiAliasing=0 to zVidEnableAntiAliasing=1. This is only an on/off setting; if it doesn't work or you want a higher setting, force it using the NVIDIA Control Panel/AMD VISION Engine Control Center instead.

Input settings

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Controller support

Gothic II has limited native controller support which can be enabled by editing Gothic.ini and changing enableJoystick=0 to enableJoystick=1; note that some axes might not be detected and some inputs cannot be set to controller axes, e.g. camera controls. For best results you will probably want to use a different solution as well as or instead of the game's own controller support; see the controller with keyboard-only game page for details.

System requirements

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General information

References