Hi everyone.

I'm hoping you guys can help me with an issue I'm having. I have Gothic 2: Gold installed, and everything was fine until I look in a certain direction. I was getting 60 FPS the whole time, but when I look or run in this direction, the FPS drops substantially, all the way down to 15-20. It gets rough to play and slows down, so I'm hoping I can find a fix.

Here's some things to note. I'm using the System Pack and I have view distance multiplier set to '10'. Before you tell me that's what's causing the issue, the FPS is the same even if I have the multiplier set to '1'. It seems to make no difference either way.

I am using an AMD Radeon 7970m, so I should have no issues running this game with all bells and whistles, but for some reason that slowdown happens and it's an issue for me.

Any ideas of how I can solve this? I've tried pretty much all the suggestions in other threads that I got by Google-searching, so I'm hoping someone here has some fresh ideas for me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance :)

I don't know, but this could help you. :-) http://www.gog.com/forum/gothic_series/gothic_ii_solution_for_outdoor_fps_drop_amd

Tried that, it doesn't work for me.

Thanks anyway.

Okay, then i hope that some one else here can help you. Have you tried to use the tech-support?

Hm, I also used to play G2NoTR with the SystemPack on AMD Radeon (not sure about number right now), and I had no troubles.

Just a shot into the darkness, which direction is it? :P

Its long ago, but I remember that I had similar problems. I am not sure what caused them, but as far as I remember it was a enforced Antia Aliasing filter, VSync or such. Ever tried to turn them all off?

I've tried so many different combinations of settings, I'm at a loss as to why this is happening.

Currently, I have AA turned off because I'd like to see the in-game movies (they disappear with AA forced on by Catalyst Control Center.) Secondly, I have tried with v-sync on and off, as well as triple buffering, tesselation, AF, so on and so forth. I even downloaded RadeonPro to configure the settings and tried a lot of different combinations in that program, still have the same problem.

The issue happens when I look in a direction with a lot of stuff in the distance. So, if I stand near the entrance to the penal colony and look towards Belgar's farm, the FPS drops from 60 to 20. If I stand on a hill and look towards the city of Khorinis, it once again drops to 20-25. It wouldn't be such a huge problem but the game actually becomes a bit laggy and obviously slower when this drop happens, enough to cause an annoyance.

I have a Radeon 7970m as I said and I don't think the game is fully utilizing my graphics card. I did a few quick benchmarks and the GPU utilization seems to be in the 30% range, even with core and memory clocks set to maximum. I even tried running a benchmark program in the background while I play, and all that does is bog the thing down more while still not utilizing the GPU properly.

I'm guessing it's an engine issue but I had problems with Gothic 1 and somehow fixed them, so I'm sure there is some setting or something somewhere that I can change that will fix this issue.

Any other ideas or am I just stuck with this?

Sounds like the viewdistance might be set to a very high value. I don't have Gothic 2 installed atm, but if it's anywhere similar to Gothic 1, you should find an entry called 'sightValue' (or somthing similar) in your Gothic.ini, along with a number between 0 and 14 next to it.
If that number is set to anything higher than 4, try setting it to 4 (equals 100% viewdistance) and see if you get any improvements in performance.

Apologies. I even double checked your initial post to see if you hadn't already mentioned that but still managed to miss it somehow.

Which CPU are you using?

View distance can be set in options - I had mine at 200%.

That's equal to 9 in the .ini file. It is irrelevant wheter you change it in the game or in the .ini file (if your in-game set settings save normally).

I used Fraps myself and it was hitting my performance greatly (down to 4 FPS, G2) as well. I went to Bandicam and I'm satisfied.