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RPGDot Forums > Gothic - Troubleshooting

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EricDaniel
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Ok, here are my specs,

1.7ghz Intel
512megs ram
Windows ME
Soundblaster Live!
Visiontek Geforce3

The game hiccups constantly and the audio stutters as well. I have all the lateset drivers for my stuff and have even reinstalled. Plus the shadow of the main character appears and disappears in a very distracting way. Gameplay is just choppy as heck. Any ideas? Should I wait for the patch?
Post Sat Dec 01, 2001 5:27 am
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Gorath
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You should have zero performance problems with such a machine.
Afaik the visual issue with "classic" GeForce3 cards are solved under Win9x. Search the forum for the correct driver version. I guess it was Det.22.80

-Disable sound to find out if the SBLive! causes trouble.
-Run DXDiag.
-uninstall, run defrag, reinstall.



[ This Message was edited by: Gorath on 2001-11-30 23:51 ]
Post Sat Dec 01, 2001 5:50 am
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Iam have the same problems wit hthe game hiccuping during play, it appears to be caused by the hard drive accessing during play, the hd ever so slightly comes on and my game jerks or freezes for a split second. i have a 1.33/gf3/384ddr and my virtual memory is nearly 1 gig. So i dont think its a ram problem. Anyone have any ideas? i does the same thing in 98se iam curently running 98/xp duel boot system.


thanks for any help
Post Mon Dec 10, 2001 3:05 am
 
Gorath
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Use the search facility. "Cacheman".
Post Mon Dec 10, 2001 2:02 pm
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tried that already, no can do, the disk access at the same points every time no matter what i do.
Post Mon Dec 10, 2001 2:53 pm
 
Gorath
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Even with 'conservative swap file usage' enabled?
Are you sure you have enough free RAM and no other tasks running in the background?
Post Mon Dec 10, 2001 2:58 pm
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It does the same thing under 98se even with conseveswap in the system ini, i am currently running xp pro...i dont know what is the problem, it doesnt do this in any other game i play.
Post Tue Dec 11, 2001 6:55 am
 
mersil
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i have just built a New machine . and My game is doing Excally what yall are talking about. the HD access hicup, (and)i am getting a Nasty Crashing problem (everytime) i get Near them bloodflies/ minecrawlers ? this is so bad now i cannot get to the Minecrawlers nest.....

i am wondering why... i got plenty of machine, and its all Brand new, latest stuff ( with drivers).

im gonna reinstall Windows. Gothic Game ,and Sound/ and video cards,

If anyone has any New suggetions PLEASE say so..
Post Thu Dec 13, 2001 5:06 pm
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mersil
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ok I re-installed , Windows,Soundcard,Videocard,and Gothic.

For Now i am not Having Crashes Around the Minecrawlers.

Now i am still getting that little Hicup when Game hits the hard drive ? If that is the way it is Then i am ok with it, i'll just be happy and Play on.

only thing, i think i had this "some" with my other machine when i played through before..
i have Stolen the Video card out of that one Now i cant go back to it and compare.
Post Thu Dec 13, 2001 8:19 pm
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I also have a Visiontek gf3 with XP drivers and a SBlive platinum. I'm getting generally lower-quality graphics than I expected, plus shadows and torches are constantly flickering (visible/not visible, rather than true flickering light). I continue to have video corruption when I return to the windows desktop after exiting.
Post Sat Dec 15, 2001 3:22 am
 
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I have the same trouble with the stuttering sound. I have played at least a dozen + games in the last year without an issue like this. I have a maxi-muse sound card by guillemot that uses the Yamaha sxg50. I havent ran into this since the old DOS games in win95 that wouldnt run under windows OS.

Does anyone have help here?
Post Tue Dec 18, 2001 10:44 pm
 
gizz
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i had dreadful performance probs, but added 256mb ram and got a new geforce card, and everything is as smooth as hell in 1200 resolution with full draw distance
Post Sun Dec 23, 2001 4:07 pm
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propellerhead
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A patch is needed. Who knows when its coming out. I went from a geforce 2 to a ati aiw 8500dv and running on xp because it wont load on 98 or me. Very smooth...better than my old geforce on xp and i did not need to disable fog...

good luck guys.
Post Wed Dec 26, 2001 5:50 am
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Jawsnapper
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I've got stuttering and stalling problems too, are there any patches for this game at all? My stalling problem is so bad that i don't even bother to play much any more.
Post Sat Dec 29, 2001 3:14 am
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Gorath
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At least it runs now.
Is it stable? And please describe what exactly stalling means.

Your system specs could also be useful.
Post Sat Dec 29, 2001 11:19 am
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