Posted January 12, 2013
Okay as stated in the title, my copy of Gothic II Gold will not run.
General info: I do _NOT_ use the GoG-Copy of the game, I actually got an old gold-version from a few years back.
I use Windows 8 x64 Upgrade (meaning the upgrade-version from Win7, I believe it's just W8 home).
Installation works without any kind of trouble, but when I try to start, the application appears in the running tasks for about 3-6 seconds, then closes itself without an error message. I do not find an error-report within the folder, so no easy way to tell what's happening.
I tried killing processes, but after I kicked everything, there still was no effect, except that wy system crashed after killing the wrong process.
I tried installing patches, fixes as described in the gog wiki, running in compatibility mode, with and wthout administrator privileges, I even installes a virtual box which merely had the effect that the game started but had no other graphics except the FMV, which I take to be a problem of missing emulated 3d emulation.
By now I am quite frustrated, especially since almost every information I get suggests that very few people have any problem running the game in windows 8.
If anyone has any more suggestions, by now I am willing to try almost anything.
General info: I do _NOT_ use the GoG-Copy of the game, I actually got an old gold-version from a few years back.
I use Windows 8 x64 Upgrade (meaning the upgrade-version from Win7, I believe it's just W8 home).
Installation works without any kind of trouble, but when I try to start, the application appears in the running tasks for about 3-6 seconds, then closes itself without an error message. I do not find an error-report within the folder, so no easy way to tell what's happening.
I tried killing processes, but after I kicked everything, there still was no effect, except that wy system crashed after killing the wrong process.
I tried installing patches, fixes as described in the gog wiki, running in compatibility mode, with and wthout administrator privileges, I even installes a virtual box which merely had the effect that the game started but had no other graphics except the FMV, which I take to be a problem of missing emulated 3d emulation.
By now I am quite frustrated, especially since almost every information I get suggests that very few people have any problem running the game in windows 8.
If anyone has any more suggestions, by now I am willing to try almost anything.
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