Problems with gothic 3

Has anybody had probles running gothic 3 on an np9262(core 2 duo 3.16ghz, 9800 gtx, 4gb RAM), I tried to play it but even in the lowest resolution it runs frustratingly slow , does anybody knows why?

 

Never had any issues with my 9500M GS and 3gb RAM - apart from the combat system *raeg* - but have you tried the community patch?

 

Yeah, patch it with every patch you can. Extremely buggy game.

 

I'll try that but will it help increase it's performance?

 

It depends. A lot of the issues (other than crashes) with gothic 3's performance are with extremely slow loading and bad management of textures, etc. So yeah, whenever you have issues see if there are official patches and if it's an older game grab any big user made/community patches. Gothic 3 had major issues with hyperthreaded cpus a few years back, so I'm assuming it has issues with dual cores as well - with this game and your system the issues are all cpu or hard drive speed related (a big one, I run *WAY* smoother running games off of an external 7200rpm drive, or ANY drive that isn't also your OS drive). Make sure both of your cores are being used (if you're running Windows XP, I think pre-SP3 or SP2 didn't automatically support dual core cpus).

 

I'm running a 9800m GTS (1 gig of memory) on my Gateway FX with is considerably less powerful than yours. 4 gigs of ram, 2.3GHz Centrino. Vista 64.

First off don't confuse the "streaming" engine pauses with GPU/CPU issues. The game streams content constantly from disk which causes little pauses. Just live with them unless you want to try solid state disk You can't tweak those out. Its equivalent to Oblivions "Loading Area..." pauses.

I discovered that G3 is CPU dependent. Did you tweak the ini? If you set the EntityROI setting too high (9000) it will lag badly in towns because the CPU is processing every NPC and its activities. Worse, NPC's will engage monsters and Mercs will fight Rebels when you *arent present*. For example, in Montera there is a merc farm outside the city. I was on the other side of the city and the Mercs started fighting the Rebels in the farm. That's not good and it caused quest issues. I dialed back the setting and reloaded from a previous save.

The FPS difference between 9000 and 5000 for me was 18 intown vs. 25 intown. In the wilderness it is clearly GPU bound. I get about 35 to 40 with LOD settings maxed out in the ini file. I'm not talking about the ingame sliders either. The game looks amazing once you tweak the ini for Level of detail. Check the Jowood forum. Its the first hit if you google "G3 ini tweaks". Just watch out for that EntityROI recommendation!


Gothic 3 is a fantastic game with the 1.6 patch. Don't give up!

 

Gothic 3 has some font memory leak error that for some reason affected perfomance on any system. You just have to copy the Arial font to the G3 Folder and rename it to what the G3 Font was called...

 

I don't know if it relates, but I started playing Gothic 2 earlier this week. It was slow and eractic until I disabled the SLI on my D901C/9262. With only one 8800 GTX video, it now it runs great. Maybe these software writers cut corners that trip over the SLI spec...