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Rendelius
Critical Error
Joined: 06 Jul 2001
Posts: 16
Location: Austria |
GothicDot now holds the latest Gothic patch - 1.08k - for you. This patch was released today and is for those with problems with Radeon video cards and possibly GeForce 3. Here's what PB has to say about it:
This patch fixes occasional crashes during gamestart. Especially if you play under Windows 98 and use some weird graphiccard/driver combination there is a possibilty that the game crashes with an illegal call to a directx utility function named "D3DXGetDeviceCount". This misbehaviour is now corrected as we do now link the gothic.exe with the directx 8 libraries, which do better support the newer driver and graphiccards. We suggest to use this exe only if you encounter crashes during gamestart (in detail: if you encounter crashes with the radeon 8500 or the Geforce 3 under Win98) This version is not supported by Piranha-Bytes.
The 5MB download can be found at here... |
Tue Jan 08, 2002 8:09 pm |
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>This version is not supported by Piranha->Bytes.
So this is unofficial? Any news on an official patch? |
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Tue Jan 08, 2002 8:17 pm |
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Rendelius
Critical Error
Joined: 06 Jul 2001
Posts: 16
Location: Austria |
Well - it comes from PB, was written in the PB QA, but they don't want to support it. I fully understand - they don't have the manpower to do support. I think this is rather a legal phrase than distrust in what they have done...
This is what I got from Björn in my mail:
Many Users have problems with Gothic and the Radeon cards with Win 98. We worked out a solution and now we released a patch (version 1.08k) for Gothic! With the ati-driver 4.13.7191 for Win 98 Gothic runs properly on our systems. Is there an opportunity for us to put the patch on one of your servers to download for our users?
Of course I agreed 
So, I think it is official, but unsupported. |
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Tue Jan 08, 2002 11:06 pm |
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propellerhead
Head Merchant
Joined: 08 Dec 2001
Posts: 71
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I think I am going to add this patch to my website....unsoported that is so when someone does a search, theyll find it. who knows.......
the patch did do a miracle on my pc though. |
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Thu Jan 10, 2002 9:10 pm |
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Ok so this is how it stands.With my Rad 8500 and 7206 drivers i had to use two monitors to even get this game to run at all.Now i install the patch and it crashes every 10 minutes and is accessing the drive like mad.No it isnt my computer as it was running gothci perfectly with 2 monitors.No suprise they dont want to support it. |
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Tue Jan 22, 2002 12:54 am |
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Gorath
Mostly Harmless
Joined: 03 Sep 2001
Posts: 6327
Location: NRW, Germany |
They never said the patch works on 7206! |
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Tue Jan 22, 2002 1:17 am |
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Thats right, they said the patch works with drivers that dont even exist, try and find em.
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Tue Jan 22, 2002 1:37 am |
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Gorath
Mostly Harmless
Joined: 03 Sep 2001
Posts: 6327
Location: NRW, Germany |
http://www.ati.com
Radeon 8500 & Win98
Windows 98 Display Drivers
Recommended Driver - 4.13.7191
Posted October 23, 2001
This is a fully released and supported display driver, which supports Windows ME, Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE. DirectX 8 and OpenGL support are included.
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Tue Jan 22, 2002 2:05 am |
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propellerhead
Head Merchant
Joined: 08 Dec 2001
Posts: 71
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this patch does not work for people running xp with a radeon card...in fact it crashes it more often...but it does make it work for 98 ane ME |
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Tue Jan 22, 2002 2:21 am |
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