======================================================================================== Gothic 3 Community Patch 1.75 Readme ======================================================================================== This document contains information about Community Patch 1.75. This patch is official and has been developed by the Community Patch Team. We would like to thank the staff members of Spellbound who kindly contributed fixes to Community Patch 1.6. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Important notification 2. Known issues 3. Error Handling 4. Notes to some ge3.ini parameters 5. Bug fixes 6. Internet Links 7. Contributors 8. Legal ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Important notification ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. You install this patch at your own risk! No responsibility is taken for potential problems arising after installation. 2. The Community Patch 1.75 can only be uninstalled by uninstalling Gothic 3 completely. 3. All previous patches are automatically uninstalled or overwritten resp. with the installation of this patch. 3.1 The Ini Backup which may have been created by previous CPs will also be deleted. This is necessary because installing this patch will result in important changes to the "ge3.ini" file. 3.2 All ini files of the game will be exchanged by the patch. They must not be replaced with an older versions, because this will cause errors. 4. Gothic 3 modifications may lead to problems during the installation of this patch. Please uninstall/delete them before the installation (including all related files in the Gothic 3 folder). 5. Savegames that have been created before installing CP 1.75 can't be used with CP 1.75 anymore. 6. The patched game will only support shader model 3.0 or higher. 7. The previous profile of technical requirements appeared to be slightly understated for reasonable performance. Revised estimation: Minimal requirements: - Intel or AMD Single Core Processor (2.5 GHz) - 1 GB RAM (1.5 GB with Windows Vista and 7) - Windows XP - ATI X1900 or nVidia 7900 with 256 MB RAM - Mouse, keyboard, DVD drive - DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card - DirectX 9.0c (will be installed with the patch) - 3 GB hard disk memory Recommended requirements: - Intel or AMD multi core CPU (3.0 GHz) - 2 GB RAM (3 GB with Windows Vista and 7) - Radeon HD 4860, Geforce 9800 with 512 MB RAM or more ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Known issues ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Despite the fact that since the first CPT release a four digit number of fixes have been and the fact that the game is much more stable right now, there are still a few stability issues and other bugs which could not been fixed yet. 1. High resolution texture settings will still result in a higher crash frequency than mid or low resolution textures. 2. Gothic 3 will still run out of memory when playing longer sessions (internally we one crash in 6-7 hours with high texture resolutions). Teleporting frequently can further reduce the crash frequency. 3. Teleporting will take a little longer than before CP 1.60 due to memory management changes. 4. Alt Tabbing randomly leads to a black screen when tabbing in again. 5. NPCs can be invisible in rare cases. Just walk far away and return. 6. Camera can flicker in some cases. Just scroll camera out and in again. 7. If the hero sits down on a throne in first person mode, the camera will face the backrest instead of looking to the front. 8. The game crashes if the player passes underneath the bridge south of Geldern. 9. At certain times of the day, black shadows might appear on some ground textures. 10. Rain and wind can also be heard in caves and other usually soundproof places. 11. The rain sound can disappear completely in some areas. (It will come back when a new rain starts). 12. It's not recommended to activate antialiasing over the graphic card's driver. 13. Creative ALchemy software may lead to buggy display of textures/materials. 14. nVidia and ATI/AMD driver profiles for Gothic 3 are causing problems and should therefore not be used. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Error Handling ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If unexpected new problems arise after installation of this patch, the following is recommended: - Uninstall Gothic 3 - Delete the installation folder(s) - Maybe defragment your hard drive - Install the game anew - Install Community Patch 1.75 anew - Maybe defragment your hard drive again - Restart your computer ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Notes to some ge3.ini parameters ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There has been a certain amount of changes done to the ge3.ini. Three new entries might require some further explanation. 1. DisableDEP Some players, especially Vista users, can't actually play the game, but instead receive a message box saying "Genome Gaming System has stopped working". The main reason for this is a security mechanism of Vista (and some other operating systems) called "Data execution prevention", or in short: DEP. This protection mechanism can be switched off manually in the system control panel of your operating system. For those of you who don't want to switch it off generally, or who don't know how to do it, we included the parameter "DisableDEP" in the ge3.ini. If this parameter is set to "true", hopefully the mentioned error message won't show up again. If you don't have any trouble with this message anyway, please keep using the default value, "false". You use this parameter at your own risk! There still may occur problems while playing the game. 2. Threads.Priority With this switch, you can give Gothic 3 a higher priority compared to other applications currently running on your computer, e.g. Acrobat Reader. The main intention of increasing the priority of Gothic 3 is to provide more CPU time to the game. This should result in a better performance, but that's not generally guaranteed. The values are: 0=Normal (default), 1=Above Normal, 2=Highest Try it out if you like, but if you notice any negative side effects, undo your changes again. We know from our tests that a priority value of 1 (above normal) can evoke problems with the game control on weak/slow computers, resulting in an increasing delay of every keyboard or mouse action. So - all changes of the Thread.Priority are at your own risk. 3. Timer.ThreadSafe When using multicore computers, there can generally appear synchronization errors when querying the system time. In Gothic 3, this could result in particularly slow or particularly fast progress of the ingame time ("disco effect"). If the parameter ThreadSafe is set to "true" (this is the default after installing the patch), the system time will be determined correctly. This may influence the performance of the game. If you experience any trouble with ThreadSafe=true (against our expectations), simply change the entry to "false". 4. Render.Nvidia3DVisionFix This parameter is only relevant if you use nVidia 3D Vision. You can force the fix "on" or "off" by setting the value to 0 or 1 respectively. Default value is 2 (auto detect). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Bug fixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An extensive list of all bugs fixed by the Community Patch Team and Spellbound (in CP 1.6) can be found within the installation directory, once the patch has been successfully installed: „Changelog.txt“. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Internet Links ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- G3 Community-Fixes-Board (German): http://forum.nordicgames.at/forumdisplay.php?659 G3 Community-Fixes-Board (English): http://forum.nordicgames.at/forumdisplay.php?661 FAQs Community Patch (German): http://forum.nordicgames.at/showthread.php?161834 FAQs Community Patch (English): http://forum.nordicgames.at/showthread.php?161924 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Contributors ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- 7.1 Community Patch Team Members ---------------------------------------------------------- ANNOmaniac (until CP 1.74) Arthus of Kap Dun (until CP 1.74) Glockenbeat (until CP 1.74) Hans Trapp (until CP 1.74) Humanforce (until CP 1.74) iks (CP 1.70) Kronos (until CP 1.74) mdahm Nameless2 (until CP 1.74) raven (until CP 1.70) Reisswolf (until CP 1.6) RoiDanton Solandor (until CP 1.70) Urban Valfaris (until CP 1.70) Zyankali~ (until CP 1.6) ---------------------------------------------------------- 7.2 Accredited Non-Members ---------------------------------------------------------- Acryl1 AHO Belagerer buecherwurm93 D4v3 Dimus Dungeon Master FreeSergey Ice_Dragon Leonard lichtwicht NicoDE Psyoniker RobeN Supernova WernerTWC ---------------------------------------------------------- 7.3 Spellbound Patch Team Members (Contribution in CP 1.6) ---------------------------------------------------------- Programming: Lead Programmer: Thomas Gereke Additional Tools Programmer: Michael Flad Programming Consultancy: Arno Wienholtz Johann Conradie Testing: Lead Tester: Markus Steffens Senior Tester: Timo Kallweit Tester: Stefan Schmitz Sebastian Schöfer Vladimir Ignatov Additional Translation: Cay Kellinghusen Vladimir Ignatov ---------------------------------------------------------- 7.4 Beta Testers of Community Patch 1.5 ---------------------------------------------------------- blutfliege1 Cerberos Cesko DarKWaRRioR Dungeon Master DWI hagalaz iks Lacni lichtwicht Lobedan Mister42 mistress_larisa Onisuzume Ribal smiloDon Sowilo Vertigo wizer ---------------------------------------------------------- 7.5 Beta Testers of Community Patch 1.70 ---------------------------------------------------------- Senior Testers Bartle Dungeon Master hagalaz Lobedan RobinSword Supernova Testers .Frodo Apocaliptica Cerberos Cesko ChessDragon136 Chicolino DarKWaRRioR DerErzbaron DerGammler Dominik10 DWI Gebrion Freddy G00fY GaHero Ghildrean JanCh Jodob Lacni Leonard lichtwicht LokutusvB LordOfTheWar LordZero Majed Melvyn Merlin1 milbradt Mister42 mistress_larisa Modres Mütze odin68 Petyamester positronic Ribal RobeN Ronin shrike44 smiloDon SvendieBlutfliege ßascha Thorwyn Toady Tr!cky Wilhelm Hawkeye wizer ---------------------------------------------------------- 7.6 Beta Testers of Community Patch 1.71 - 1.73 ---------------------------------------------------------- Dungeon Master GaHero hagalaz Lobedan Modres RobeN RobinSword Supernova ---------------------------------------------------------- 7.7 Beta Testers of Community Patch 1.74 ---------------------------------------------------------- hagalaz Lobedan Martin3D Modres RobeN RobinSword Supernova ---------------------------------------------------------- 7.8 Beta Testers of Community Patch 1.75 ---------------------------------------------------------- hagalaz Lobedan RobeN TazmanDevil Xardas66 ---------------------------------------------------------- 7.9 Translators ---------------------------------------------------------- English: Nameless2 French: Mr Anderson, Nazgul, Spellbound Italian: Carlo Muzzolon, Dudley89, -Henry-, Italian Community, Mister42, Saturas92, Stryder, ZaZi91, xardas66 Spanish: Ghildrean, Immortality (http://www.clandlan.net), Lord Psion, Rethon Russian: Atlant, Elind, Kein, Mighty Dwarfs / Odin68 Polish: RobeN, Wilhelm Hawkeye, Macrentofeth, |Duo|, Marduk666pl, MatiKIng, Polish Community, Romancef, }v{ajin Czech: Charly, El Kamil, Feodaron, Keldorn, kloudici, Martin3D, Robin_WH, Wem Hungarian: djzolie, Panyi Chinese (traditional): gospel, Nekki ---------------------------------------------------------- 8. 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