I have never ever before complained about a game in this manner, I think.

I have never asked either my money back even when a game would not start: I have thought that possibly all the issues were related to my odd HW / OS combo, and that gog should be supported.

Gothic3 "enhanced edition:"

- I actually see the grid behind the textures quite often, especially on conversation mode.
- The game crashes on reload or teleporting very often. Or just crashes.
- Long reload / save times, 30+ seconds often. No chance to name your savegame.
- Ungodly slowing down of the frame rate especially after reload or starting of a game - but also randomly.

Anyone else play this on Win7 on Mac HW and found vastly inferior to original gaming experience? Anyone on classic or other unorthodox HW - what say you?

I only bought this game digitally because I could not find the CD to the box, my bad - but the only issue I ever had with the series before was that quest up north with a shaman running away after a good number of his mates were killed.

The point somehow is that the original Gothic3 was more Mac HW on Win XP compatible - and stable. Why should we now settle for less, and pay some, too?

First off, do you have Gothic 3, or Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods Enhanced Edition?

I don't have a Mac but I did play Gothic 3 on Windows 7 (completely finished Gothic 3 on Windows 7), /Windows 8 (briefly) and Windows 8.1 (also briefly).

-I haven't noticed any texture problems except for some textures popping in, and that's only on Windows 8.1
-Gothic 3 has never crashed on a reload or teleport for me, though it did randomly crash in one exact area every time I tried to quick save.
-Gothic 3/Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods Enhanced Edition both can take a while to load/reload, and neither gives you the chance to name your save
-Gothic 3/Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods Enhanced Edition are known for lagging and stuttering, the community patch helps with that. Some places stutter heavily while other places are rather smooth, it's just something you'll have to get used to.

Gothic 3 or Gothic 3 Forsaken Gods Enhanced Edition? The reviews tend to agree that Gothic 3 Forsaken Gods "Enhanced Edition" is terrible. If that's what you are playing, its probably just awful. This one might just need to use compatibility mode or a community patch if that is what you are playing.

Edit: Basically, what NoNewTaleToTell said.

I do think that Gothic 3 "original" actually could install fine indeed on Windows 7 OS (on Mac HW). Though I have to buy another set of the original CD just to be sure.

And what about Divine Divinity ten years or later, or so, three CDs and all, eh, running smooth as silk with Win7?

All hail Larian, methinks.

It can be done - on original IP. Even without any "enchanced edition" or whatnot!


Edit: "without"added in the last sentence for the sake of coherence.

Having had a look or two at the "task manager" to kill this one upon freezing, I now simply suspect this version just bloody depends on physical memory too much (16% without, +90% with), when CPU usage is pretty nil (27% or so at tops).

Whatever might be said of Baldur's Gate Enhanced edition, it has never this far crashed upon over-claiming the RAM in my case!