Hi,

EDIT: Found the solution here: http://www.gog.com/en/forum/gothic_series/intro_videos Editing gothic.ini file did the trick.

As a big fan of Gothic series, after 10 years, I decided to play Gothic I again and bought it from GOG yesterday. I installed the game, it loads nice and when I am in it is all ok. However, cinematic videos do not show, I can hear the audio but I see a black screen when the cinematic is running. Skipping it works but I want to know why I can't see videos. I didn't install any other patches, just the setup file I downloaded from GOG.

My system:

Windows Vista Home Basic 32Bit SP2
NVIDIA Gforce 9600M GS
1280 x 800 x 32

Did any of you have the same issue?

Thanks.

I did have the same issue. Same operating system as you. I never bothered to fix it, however, since it didn't interfere with any of the gameplay.

If I decide to play again I'll take a look at your link. I love that people are so helpful here.

I had to turn off the scaling on the videos in the gothic.ini file in order to make the videos display. If I left scaling on, I'd get sound but no visuals. The downside is that they're tiny by modern resolution standards, so if you've tweaked the game to run at a higher resolution, they're the size of a postage stamp. But it's a lot better than nothing.

edit: Of course, I just thought of something. You'll need to look at one of the stickied threads here about how to make a gothic.bat file to copy over a modified version of the gothic.ini file at every start up in order for this to work because for whatever reason, the game reverts gothic.ini to a default state at every startup. It's not too difficult to get this going, though.