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Pinch
Village Dweller
Joined: 11 Feb 2003
Posts: 8
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Yeah so I had Gothic 2 running just fine on this machine like a year ago or whenever I first got it.
Specs:
Athlon XP 1800, 256m ram, Radeon 9000
(not great I need to upgrade I know)
Anyway now when I try to run it I get an error along the lines of:
"Can't create D3DX context ! error: DDERR_UNSUPPORTED"
The only things different is I have the latest catalyst (4.12?) and Service Pack 2, which I have heard can hose some games. As I said it was running on this machine before so please don't yell at me to get a better comp, that's not helpful kay?
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Uriziel
Grand Mage
Joined: 17 May 2002
Posts: 735
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sp2 sux...I'd try rolling back the vid drivers first, because tossing sp2 normally means a reformat and install. sp2 don't like to be removed
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Sun Jan 16, 2005 8:37 am |
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mazu
Protector of the Realm
Joined: 21 Nov 2004
Posts: 251
Location: Desert Camp |
It works fine with me, i have the latest catalyst. ( Or at least i think so... )
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Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:42 am |
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Mercenary
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Joined: 25 Nov 2002
Posts: 2874
Location: Chromanin |
Probably its Service Pack 2 problem. If that's not the problem it looks like it might be a problem with DirectX. Make sure you have the right version or newer version of DirectX installed on your system.
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Sun Jan 16, 2005 7:39 pm |
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wacko3
Village Leader
Joined: 25 Jan 2005
Posts: 98
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Hey sup ... the problem is your card apparently G2 doesnt like ATI
i dont think youll run it wery good or at all
i have a 9200 altho my specs are lower then you amd850 384mb ram
but i get 5-13FPS in town and 20-25 outside
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Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:26 pm |
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Bob656
Village Dweller
Joined: 01 May 2005
Posts: 15
Location: Italy |
I've got this problem as well...a couple of time it gives me the same error message, but mostly the game freezes (or crashes), and i have to reboot the PC.
My card is Radeon 9550 (256Mb), rather new...with my old Geforce4 (128) i was able to finish G2 a lot of times without ANY problem, but now..damn it!! 
It's very frustrating, cause i just bought NOTR (Italian version) yesterday, and i cannot play more than 3-4 minutes before it crashes!!!
Any suggestion?  |
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Sun May 01, 2005 9:33 am |
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Sem
Solid as a Rock
Joined: 01 Mar 2004
Posts: 3386
Location: at the Dot |
G2 is already getting old and gives problems with a lot of new videocards, like GeForce 6600 and others from the 6 series.
When you played it before did you have the same graphics card?
I've also installed SP2 and it doesn't affect Gothic 2 in any way.
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Sun May 01, 2005 10:50 am |
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Bob656
Village Dweller
Joined: 01 May 2005
Posts: 15
Location: Italy |
True. Gothic II is rather old now, but the version (it says 2.7) I just bought (G2 and NOTR) should be already patched and updated...but I can't be sure. 
When I played in the past G2 (english version), but i surely remember that with my old NVidia (don't remember the chipset, 'cause I sold the card...128mb) I finished the game several times (i played through the three different paths...fire magician, paladin and dragon hunter) and i didn't encounter ANY problem...good graphics, fast and smooth. 
Now, with a totally rebuild PC, with P4 3000, 1 GB Ram, and this damned Radeon 9550 (256Mb), i'm not able to play even 5 minutes before it crashes, freezes or sometimes even reboot itself!! 
I've tried everything...I don't know what to do now...I wrote a mail to Jowood, explaining the problem, so let see what happens. 
It's a very disturbing situation... |
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Sun May 01, 2005 3:40 pm |
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Bob656
Village Dweller
Joined: 01 May 2005
Posts: 15
Location: Italy |
Ah, I forgot to say...i downloaded and updated the latest Catalyst version, 5.4...it should work better, but still nothing to do.  |
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