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I have gothic 1 installed and it works fine, but it work play any of the cg seens, just a black screen with the sound?
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timnikoley: I have gothic 1 installed and it works fine, but it work play any of the cg seens, just a black screen with the sound?
Disabling antialiasing in your video card drivers may fix this problem, but that doesn't always work. One thing that does always work is disabling video scaling. This way the video won't fill up the whole screen, unfortunately, but it's still better than seeing nothing at all. :)

To disable video scaling you need to edit Gothic.ini and change scaleVideo=1 to scaleVideo=0. For Vista and Windows 7 you can normally find this file in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Gothic\System (or similar--the folders below VirtualStore reflect wherever the game has been installed); note that AppData is a hidden folder by default, but you can still access it by entering it in the address bar. For XP, or if it's not within VirtualStore, you can find this file within the System subfolder of wherever you installed the game to.

One easy way of watching videos you've already missed is to install The RAD Video Tools (free), which lets you watch the videos outside the game by running them directly; this also works for videos from most other games.
I had this problem too but I disabled video scaling and now I can see the videos. Thanks.
Post edited October 30, 2010 by macuahuitlgog
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timnikoley: I have gothic 1 installed and it works fine, but it work play any of the cg seens, just a black screen with the sound?
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Arkose: Disabling antialiasing in your video card drivers may fix this problem, but that doesn't always work. One thing that does always work is disabling video scaling. This way the video won't fill up the whole screen, unfortunately, but it's still better than seeing nothing at all. :)

To disable video scaling you need to edit Gothic.ini and change scaleVideo=1 to scaleVideo=0. For Vista and Windows 7 you can normally find this file in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Gothic\System (or similar--the folders below VirtualStore reflect wherever the game has been installed); note that AppData is a hidden folder by default, but you can still access it by entering it in the address bar. For XP, or if it's not within VirtualStore, you can find this file within the System subfolder of wherever you installed the game to.

One easy way of watching videos you've already missed is to install The RAD Video Tools (free), which lets you watch the videos outside the game by running them directly; this also works for videos from most other games.
it works for me too, thankx alot ;)
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Arkose: Disabling antialiasing in your video card drivers may fix this problem, but that doesn't always work. One thing that does always work is disabling video scaling. This way the video won't fill up the whole screen, unfortunately, but it's still better than seeing nothing at all. :)

To disable video scaling you need to edit Gothic.ini and change scaleVideo=1 to scaleVideo=0. For Vista and Windows 7 you can normally find this file in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Gothic\System (or similar--the folders below VirtualStore reflect wherever the game has been installed); note that AppData is a hidden folder by default, but you can still access it by entering it in the address bar. For XP, or if it's not within VirtualStore, you can find this file within the System subfolder of wherever you installed the game to.

One easy way of watching videos you've already missed is to install The RAD Video Tools (free), which lets you watch the videos outside the game by running them directly; this also works for videos from most other games.
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SeeDMako: it works for me too, thankx alot ;)
On Gothic II that wasn't enough for me. Also had to set the game exe to run in compatibility mode for XP SP3.

Full steps required on my machine to get Gothic II working great on Win 10 (albeit with videos small on the screen):

1) run the gothic fullscreen fixes batch file (available on pcgamingwiki).

2) set compatibility mode on the game exe to run as Windows XP SP3

3) go into gothic.ini file and change scalevideo=1 to scalevideo=0

4) change the in game resolution settings to your monitor's (ie. 1280x1024x16) - this could also be set in the ini file.
Post edited November 06, 2016 by EarthStar2000