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Well, I got Gothic 2 and it's dark and takes forever to load
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Max Killen
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Well, I got Gothic 2 and it's dark and takes forever to load
   

The grandkids remembered my birthday and surprised me by giving me Gothic 2 last week. I loaded it on the computer and the first thing I noticed was that the game surroundings were quite dark. I am only at Lobart's Farm, but the game is quite dark. There was 3 dragonbees on the way that I could barely see. I looked for a darkness setting but there does not appear to be one. I turned the detail all the way up but that didn't help. The game doesn't appear to be the quality of Gothic 1 either. I was re-playing Gothic prior to my birthday and it was very fluid and the graphics appeared better.
Another thing bothers me, load time. It takes 5 minutes and 10 seconds from clicking on the game and getting a game loaded. It takes a minute and half just loading the "virtual disk file system"
Is the darkness and long loading time typical for everyone.
Post Sun Dec 14, 2003 10:22 pm
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I have a fairly high end system, so I didn't have that problem.
Go to Options. Go to Video Settings.

You can adjust the Brightness, Contast and Gamma there.
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Post Sun Dec 14, 2003 10:37 pm
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I have a 1G processor with 256 mem and a sus v8200 video card. I think my computer is fast enough, although I could be wrong. I am not complaining about the detail, I am saying the game is dark.
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I was refering to the load times with my first statement. Gothic 2 is very RAM intensive.

You should be able to fix the darkness problem by adjusting it in-game or by increasing your monitor brightness manually.
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Post Sun Dec 14, 2003 10:50 pm
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You haven't got enough RAM. 256 barely allows to run the game at all.
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quote:
Originally posted by Jaz
You haven't got enough RAM. 256 barely allows to run the game at all.


Maybe that's a problem. I have had messages saying something about coputer resources were VERY low while playing the game. How much RAM should I have??
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At least double what you have now.
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Post Sun Dec 14, 2003 11:06 pm
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Half-a-double will do fine, as well. I have roughly the same stats as you, and the game is playable. Had problems only towards the end, when I had to lower all details... But, the frustration is not significant when playing a game like Gothic.

As for darkness, adjusting gamma level should give the best results.
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Maybe itīs time to get a new PC. G2 eats 1 GHz systems for breakfast.
If you have Win98 go for 512 MB. More is unhealthy. On 2000 or XP you can go for 1 GB. 512 MB should be okay, though. The loading problem should be gone.

The gamma problem is normal. 20 minutes after I started the game I found a shadowbeast inside a really dark forest at night. Although I was carrying a torch it took me 3 tries to find out what killed me.
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Post Mon Dec 15, 2003 10:27 am
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i donīt have any problems whit g2. itīs not too dark, around 8 sec load time,
itīs good grafic and no lag. (1024 mb ddr ram)
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hm... i have 1.3 GHz, with 256 mb ddr ram. the game works fine on my computer.
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Well, I have a 2.6 GHz system, 1G (fast) RAM, a 128 MB good (not great) Radeon video card and the game runs just fine, if not very long. I got the game for Christmas from my sons and am not very far in (just got into Korinnis via the farmer route) but the game has already frozen a dozen times or more. I thought MW was unstable but so far Gothic II (ver 1.32) makes it look like the Rock of Gibraltar. Is this normal? I don't see any threads on this but of course have come relatively late to the forum and have not delved into early threads. And yes, the guy with the 1 GHz computer seriously needs to upgrade.
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The instabilities are not normal. There must be a reason for them.
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Post Mon Dec 29, 2003 4:13 pm
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I haven't noticed and instability or crashing, but sometimes when I am walking the screen starts to jerk.

I cranked up my video settings to increase brightness.
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I have noticed a simple thing while walking, the angle of veiw, makes the game jerky. If I am "looking" at the ground a little too much, it is very shakey, and if I just "look" up a little in a more straight view towards the horizon, it stops and all is smooth.
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