Hello fellow Players!
I know there are several guides and how-to´s - but either they are outdated, plain misleading or they are not easy to understand. After a lot of trying (and a lot of failing), I now am happy to sum up all my findings to let you enjoy Gothic 1 on a Win10 64bit rig, widescreen support and fps unlock. I should know it works because i played through the game at 2560*1080 on a 290X in Nov. 2017.

How to do it?

1) A clean install of GOG Gothic 1 (which is already patched to v1.08k) . Please make very shure it is a clean install; if you have tried to play and /or mod Gothic 1 before, there will be data left even after a uninstall. So double check it manually.

2) Install the "player kit"

3) Download and install the [url=https://forum.worldofplayers.de/forum/threads/1340357-Release-Gothic-%C2%BD-%C2%97-SystemPack-(ENG-DEU)]"system pack"[/url] . Scroll down for download link. I did not install the aditional playerkit v2.8 mentioned on that page; so it seems not to be essential. If you want to install the Kit v2.8, make shure you do it BEFORE installing the system pack.

4) Download and install the DX11 3D3-renderer. It takes the graphics to a almost "up to date" level. Here is the link of the corresponding World of Gothic forum thread WoG D3D11 Forum and since it is hard to find on that page, the link to the actual download of the newest renderer for Gothic1 [url=]https://github.com/ataulien/GD3D11/blob/master/PreviewBuilds/GD3D11_PreviewReleaseG1.zip[/url] .
X17.5 is the newest version, runs without problems.

Start the game once and edit the game options to your liking (aka max out everything). It will fail to save your graphics resolutions, though. So exit the game again an look for the gothic.ini in your ../Gothic/system/ folder.
To make the most out of your game, search and edit the file with a normal text editor as follows:

bloodDetail=3

scaleVideos=1

playLogoVideos=0

zVidResFullscreenX=2560
zVidResFullscreenY=1080
zVidResFullscreenBPP=32
(IF you have a widescreen monitor - you should of course enter the max resolution of YOUR monitor there)


With this, I was able to play through the game quite nicely. Compared to vanilla Gothic, the game looks nicer, plays WAY smoother and does not crash at all. Please install the mods/patches in the order mentioned above.

NO need for extra "FPS Fix" or widescreen fix - they will most likely corrupt your gamefiles since they are already implemented.

So, just enjoy the best Gothic 1 there is.

Thanks Have you got one for Gothic 2 gold. I did it almost exactly like this is. The only complaint I have is the cut scenes are very small. I did not do the DX part.

What does the system pack do exactly that GoG's version of Gothic doesn't already do?

I wouldn't care, but the system pack seems to cause a problem for me, or at least makes it much more frequent:

I press Action+Forward to attack once, and my character attacks. Then I switch to Action+Back, to block - but instead of blocking, my character keeps attacking like a maniac. So this gets me killed easily.

I tested this with gog's version and the retail version and in both cases, after installing systempack I have this problem a LOT more often.

Well, on the page I linked where you download the system pack, there is a list of changes.. you could read that, if you want...

Concearning your "locked" attack button.. I experienced that, too, but it totally went away with the new DX11 renderer. I think it may have to do with the old engine and to many buttons pressed at once, but i may be wrong.

Weird. I've used the DX11 renderer and it didn't help this at all.

I have a 4K 3840x2160 monitor with a computer running AMD Radeon RX 580 series graphics, will that make a difference?

The GD3D11 does not work well for me. I install it to use the nividia card to my laptop instead of intel graphics but it makes the graphics to look bad and unnatural , also i had performance and other issues. So i removed it immediately and i reilized that hd4600 graphics is more than enough to run the game at 1920x1080 at stable 60 fps. SystemPack 1.7 is highly recommended or a must , GD3D11 is not for all people. If you don't see any differences after you install the patch then uninstall it. For me the SystemPack make the game to run smoother and solve some compatibility issues with windows 10 and full hd resolution. As for the attack problem i played about 1 hour and i didn't experienced it yet.

Thank you very much, it's working for me.

I have my copy of gothic from another source but haven't had any luck with help on this. Have gothic 1, patch, player kit, system kit, and GD3D11. Also franks textures (i think). The game seems to work well except that i get these flickering lines that look like a hex grid. Also, and i'm feeling like a newb here, but which .exe am i supposed to start from in the system folder? (there is a gothic, gothic startup, gothicmod and variations of the last 2).

Have played gothic back when it released in the US.

Thanks! It runs and looks great on a 3840*2160p flatscreen tv HDMI cabled to my laptop (AMD G6 graphics card).

I remapped an old ps3 controller so I can lay back without having to touch the keypad. It took me six hours to set up Gothic I and II with controller support and everything you listed, plus a texture mod.

I'm not sure I set the 11x renderer up right though because it looked about the same afterwards.

Does it matter what folder the GD3D11 files go to? I assume it doesn't since no one has ever mentioned it in the instructions.

The solution didn't work for me. Tried many solution found on the net, and the game simply wont start. I gave up on this.

Tried everything and followed every guide to get this game to work. Never once managed to get it to start. Why sell a game that is so hit and miss to actually get to work, ridiculous.

Because, apparently, it's actually not that "hit and miss to get to work" for most people, including the OP and his Win10 setup.
If you're on Win10 too but still can't get it to run it's most likely one of Win10's frequent little updates that, unfortunately can make all the difference.

Exercise a little patience and try a couple different approaches (like skipping the DX11 Renderer, for instance) - don't forget to do a clean re-install everytime or it'll only get worse - and if this still gets you nowhere contact GoG support.

Or you could wait until Gothic Reloaded finally sees the light of day.
Chances are that this overhauled version of Gothic also is going to run on everything straight out-of-the-box.