HowTo Play Gothic3 [Multi]-- Use THIS THREAD ONLY-DO NOT START ANOTHER!

[Joe Forster/STA]

... or use a proper file manager, like FAR Manager or Total Commander, rather than that unusable piece of shit called Windows Explorer...

[Nyctalus]

I tried to convert the MDS/MDF image of gothic3 that I have on my computer to a virtual cd 8 image, but it doesnt work...
the conversion is finished after 1 second and all I get are some crappy data files of only 100kb.
How can I make a vcd8 image out of an mds image?

[Curval]

I tried it the hole day , found a dozen of guides like this and faked stupid crap like the "cracks". I run the Gothic3.exe about 1Million times. Banned my "bad software" moved my disks from a to z. Nothing works !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its Voodoo not science

And where is the dir for the Savegames???? Its so important to start the game, yes?

[bedzio]

Hello! I got a problem. If i mount this GOTHIC3.vc4 in Virtual CD i got a message:

[code]Error inserting/ejecting the virtual CD.
Reason: Error opening track file(s)
OK[code]

What i can do? I got a german version. Sry for my english im from poland.

[SchmotikFree]

Originally Posted by Curval

I tried it the hole day , found a dozen of guides like this and faked stupid crap like the "cracks". I run the Gothic3.exe about 1Million times. Banned my "bad software" moved my disks from a to z. Nothing works !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its Voodoo not science

And where is the dir for the Savegames???? Its so important to start the game, yes?

Man, man... savegames are in c:\Common Files\My Own Files. Sorry my wrong English directory titles, I only got XP Home German. When U start an explorer it's not even in C (though you could get to it a lot longer this way), you just doubleclick on the symbol on top of all the harddisks and their letters, where YOUR OWN files are stored, then THERE is a subdirectory called "gothic3", the SAVEGAMES ARE THERE.

Man, I dig your effort, but go the right way. I only tried it for 1 hour and got to the loading screen, only there it hangs, probably because I only got 512 MB RAM and someone wrote it only works with minimum 1.5 GB RAM

One thing: I had to give my DVD back, and they took it, it WAS scratched, like another one's DVD! I got a new one, and it works perfectly. Another user was banned because he said the same thing. Well, it's true a lot of Gothic 3 DVDs are either broken or don0t work because of the copy-pretection, at least not in all DVD-Drives. Once, mine couldn't read the movie "The Others" that I bought together with Red Planet either, and I got a new DVD.

THAT's the reason for the need of a "crack"! That one does NOT have to put in the DVD evrytime, many DVD-drives DESTROY DVDs and even some new CDs while reading them often! AND THERE ARE WORKING CRACKS ON THE NET, But way too many fakes. IT is the FAKES that should be forbidden!

@ SCHAROCH and also @EMREGUBB: Geforce MX 400, I had that Card until some months ago. The newest games dont work with this card, even in Area 51, there is EXACTLY THE SAME grafix errror as you all desribe (there have benn more than 10 people describing that same problem of a white field on one side of the 3D-space that the character is in) - updating grafix drivers or even the grafix mainboard chipset driver, namely for Geforce4 MX AGP, results in NOTHING. Note: For example, the game "Thief 1" works only UNTIL a certain version of NVIDIA drivers (I think until 81.89), and NOT with later versions, if you got a Geforce 4 MX with 64 MB VideoRAM. And, for example "Thief 3" also doens't suppurt Gefroce4MX cards, its even written there. The same in Oblivion and many other new games.

[Stepes]

@Nyctalus.
first mount your image then make a virtual cd from the drive wih the mounted image

And yes could someone say what the dir of savegames is?

[schmudel]

Originally Posted by Stepes

@Nyctalus.
first mount your image then make a virtual cd from the drive wih the mounted image

And yes could someone say what the dir of savegames is?

Yeaa I Need to know that too!!!

[Stepes]

ok, the path is /my documents/gothic3

[corne]

Did everything you said still it keeps saying insert disk i installed virtual cd let it make a image of my englisch .nrg download and replaced it with fixed image. renamed it as it stated in your steps but still a no no for me

I even tryed the instructions on the german fixed image

[Stepes]

Well for me it worked. but I had mdf/mds files for the image.I mounted them then made the virtual cd. But I had first changed my virtual drive setting as in the screenshots wchi can be found in the fixed image rar.
The I just did right click and insert virtual cd into D:\ which is my physical first dvd drive. maybe you just mount it on the wrong drive

And this game either has insane requirements or a heavy memory leak. It used up all my virtual memory :P took 2 minutes just to exit the game...

[TippeX]

Originally Posted by corne

i installed virtual cd let it make a image of my englisch .nrg download and replaced it with fixed image

erm

1. explain 'download'... (and possibly also read the rules if my interpretation of 'download' is accurate
2. nrg file is useless, it can NOT contain the tages duplicate sectors...

[Windu12]

Originally Posted by Stepes

ok, the path is /my documents/gothic3

now , I dont have save there. Where is that fuckin save dir ??

[Dami0]

Then make the directory.

[Dami0]

Crack is here!