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Abzygall
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Well,I have recently(2 days ago) bught a Ati Radeon 7000 and ran Gothic(installed that day, after the card was installed).It ran the main menu,I wanted to start a new game,I saw the movie and then the game restarted,after it finished loading.I' currently installing the patch. I hope it works.If it doesn't i'll be kiked out of the forum for foul language.
Post Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:59 pm
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Welcome to the forums Abzygall,

Hope that graphics card works o.k for you, let us know how it goes and what settings you find works best.
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Post Wed Nov 09, 2005 3:38 pm
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The #@&$% didn't work!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm going to curs it even more.Thanks for the welcome, and hope you can help me. In the mean time I'm going to try diffrent settings and ask the same question on diffrent forums. Hope I find a cure for it.
Post Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:10 pm
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Sorry to hear the bad news,

Which patch did you install, what is your game version?
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Post Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:33 pm
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WELL, i INSTALLED THE 1,08K PATCH, FROM THEGALLERY HERE AT RPG DOT and the game started normaly,but I still couldn't play.
Post Thu Nov 10, 2005 6:15 am
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O.k Abzygall,

Try this, remove the patch, run the install gothic menu and choose "repair"
Check latest motherboard drivers, and re-check for latest graphics driver.

Does hard drive light stay on?
What is your opperating system?
What version directX
Did you hear sound in the intro movie?
Does your DirectX diag' run all Graphics tests?
Can you run a video in windows media player on full screen (no lagging)?

Good luck.
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Post Thu Nov 10, 2005 2:10 pm
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Ok. I'll try what you suggested,thanks for the help, as for the rest of the test I ran dxdiag and all the tests for Direst 3D and Direct Draw and they worked; I have Win XP; DirectX 9.0c; I can run a movie in fullscreen, if that's what you mean; yes I hear the sound in the intro and yes my hard drive light stays on.
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Post Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:09 pm
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Welcome to our forum!

Gothic doesnīt restart your computer. The game crashes and windows automatically restarts itself. If you disable the automatic restart you can read the error message.

Gothic should also save an error log file in its directory.

Did you use the forum search to find out if itīs a graphics card related problem? The Radeon 7000 was both problematic and slow when it came out years ago.
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How do I disable Automatic Restart???
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Post Fri Nov 11, 2005 8:41 am
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Control panel/system properties/advanced/startup and recovery/sytem failure - uncheck automatic restart.
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Post Fri Nov 11, 2005 4:09 pm
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Well I viewed the error, and it said:

***STOP:0x000008e(0xc000001D,0xBFBB7142,0xF26D39A8,0x00000000)
***ati3dvag.all-Address BFBB7142 base arBFA7800, Date satmp 42c20bd6
Begining dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete


That's exactly what it said and I figured out that it's something from "ati3dvag.all" . What that is I don't know . Please Help!!!
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Post Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:10 am
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I would suggest you get another graphics card, you can get hold of much better cards and cheap.
The 7000 is a problematic card for many users, not just gothic players.

As a last chance suggestion, maybe try ajusting your settings using "Smartgart" - search for the download if you don't allready have it.
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Post Sat Nov 12, 2005 9:42 am
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Abzygall
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Well, I talked to the guys at the shop where I bought the card, and they said that I should reinstall Windows, so I'm going to try that, and it will hopefully work
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Post Sun Jan 15, 2006 12:16 pm
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I reinstalled windows xp from scratch and nothing changed except for the overall performance. I'm going to go to the service once more and see what I can do!
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Post Fri Mar 10, 2006 4:47 pm
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You're still trying Abzygall? - i admire your determination.

Maybe, if all else fails you try this, it could give us one last clue. Download and install the Player kit.(1.08k)
http://newspics.rpgdot.com/galview.php?level=3&sort=&from=9&d2=10&d3=Special&d4=&d5=

Run the 'starter' from the blue "G" desktop icon, highlight "gothic the game" (1.08j/k) then press start gothic button...in some rare cases this gets the game run but i doubt it in your case, at least when the fault happens you will see an error message, what is the message?
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