Didn't see your OS so . . .
If using Vista/Windows 7 . . .
Make sure, when installing the game, that you right click the setup exe and click "Run as administrator" from the dialog. If you only double click the exe, without doing the above, Vista/Win 7 may block some disk writes the game tries to do.
After Installing, right click the game icon, click Properties, click Compatibility and check mark the "Run this program as an administrator" option.
If using Vista/Win 7/ XP . . .
Make sure you have the latest video drivers . . .
Click here for ATI
Click here for Nvidia
any other video card you will have to find.
One last thing to try is disable anisotropical filtering and anti-aliasing in your video card settings. XP right click the desktop, click properties, Settings, Advanced, your card tab. Vista right click desktop, click Personalize, Display Settings, Advanced Setting, your card tab. Can't tell you where, you may not even be able to disable these setting depending on the card. If this makes no difference . . . enable them again.
Gothic 2 is notorious for crashing, good luck.
Edit: when the game is up and running, Alt-Tab to the desktop and see if your firewall has raised any dialogs that need to be accepted, some firewalls, mine is Comodo, need confirmation to allow an exe to do certain things the first time, once accepted, it will not ask you again and will allow the operation from then on. If you don't confirm, it will block the disk write or whatever. Games are known to ignore the dialogs so you might need to "go look" for yourself. Setting the game exe as a trusted program can eliminate this problem but could be dangerous if the exe is on-line capable.
Edit 2: If you have a dual core AMD processor, you might consider giving the
AMD Dual Core Optimizer a try. It helped Painkiller to run smoothly on my laptop. It doesn't have a GUI but installs and runs in the background. Can't see that it has affected anything other than PK runs better. It can be uninstalled using control panel.
IT IS NOT FOR INTEL CPU's
