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Posted September 25, 2012
Hey. I've started the game and it runs fine, but loading saved games takes a good two minutes, either via the start up menu, or after dying. Running WinXP. I pondered whether this is a side-effect of the dual-core CPU (though my research found nothing to support this, just going by similar occurances in other games), but alt-tabbing or ctrl-alt-del doesn't work and I'm pretty much stuck on the game screen until I manually quit (and thus can't change affinity).

I'd tough it up if it was just the original screen, but considering the play-to-death ratio, I end up spending more time looking at the loading screen than actually playing. I'm just about ready to hit god mode and fly through the game just for the heck of it.

Any ideas or similar problems anyone?
Post edited September 25, 2012 by NeoRanger
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Posted September 25, 2012
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NeoRanger: Hey. I've started the game and it runs fine, but loading saved games takes a good two minutes, either via the start up menu, or after dying. Running WinXP. I pondered whether this is a side-effect of the dual-core CPU (though my research found nothing to support this, just going by similar occurances in other games), but alt-tabbing or ctrl-alt-del doesn't work and I'm pretty much stuck on the game screen until I manually quit (and thus can't change affinity).

I'd tough it up if it was just the original screen, but considering the play-to-death ratio, I end up spending more time looking at the loading screen than actually playing. I'm just about ready to hit god mode and fly through the game just for the heck of it.

Any ideas or similar problems anyone?
Are you running other programs in the background? How full is your memory? There's a way (I'm not all that computer savy) to run a dual core as a single core - had to do that in "Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines" but, (of course!) I can't remember how I did it.

When I had the game loaded, I had a dual core XP driven PC but didn't have this problem.
Post edited September 25, 2012 by lordhoff
Posted September 25, 2012
Nope, all's clean. No programs running, plenty of memory, there isn't even any actual activity when the freeze happens (indicator doesn't show anything). It loads up almost completely instantly, then just turns idle at something like 90% of the load and stays there for a couple of minutes until it unfreezes again.
Posted September 29, 2012
Here's an interesting little change.

The loading issue happened to me when I was on an NVidia card; I tried it with two cards, my dying GT240 and my back-up GT520 and got that problem.

Yesterday I bought a new card to replace the 240 (because the 520 is pretty weak) and I picked an ATi HD6570. With this one, the loading issue is gone; the game loads within seconds, like it's supposed to.

BUT! With the 6570, it freezes a mere few seconds in-game (not consistently), the program stops responding and I have to shut it down from the Task Manager.

I've pretty much given up on the game, but I thought this might prove useful, should someone wish to have a look at this for future reference.
Post edited September 29, 2012 by NeoRanger
Posted September 29, 2012
I've always had huge loading times in G2, with both old and new hardware, I thought it was normal...

Anyway, when the game stops does the audio keep playing normally? If so, could you please let it run for a while next time it freezes, to see if it resumes after a few minutes?

That's what happens on my pc sometimes, but I have a GeForce card.
Posted January 13, 2013
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NeoRanger: Hey. I've started the game and it runs fine, but loading saved games takes a good two minutes, either via the start up menu, or after dying. Running WinXP. I pondered whether this is a side-effect of the dual-core CPU (though my research found nothing to support this, just going by similar occurances in other games), but alt-tabbing or ctrl-alt-del doesn't work and I'm pretty much stuck on the game screen until I manually quit (and thus can't change affinity).

I'd tough it up if it was just the original screen, but considering the play-to-death ratio, I end up spending more time looking at the loading screen than actually playing. I'm just about ready to hit god mode and fly through the game just for the heck of it.

Any ideas or similar problems anyone?
Sorry for the zombie thread but I just reinstalled Gothic II to play through again and I had this issue. New computer with new video card since my last play through (Nvidia GTX460).

Started playing around in the Nvidia control panel and I seem to have fixed the load issue.

Items changed from default under 3D settings for Gothic II:

Antialiasing - FXAA = ON
Texture Filtering- Negative LOD Bias = CLAMP
Threaded Optimization = ON
Triple Buffering = ON

I have no idea what to do for a Raedon card but my load times are about 5-7 sec now instead of 2-5 min or not at all. Basically I used concepts from other older games that fix random issues and it seems to work for Gothic as well.

Hope that helps someone :)
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