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The music stutters and sometimes stops, which often leads to the whole game jolting.

The DirectMusic system that Gothic employs generates the music in real time using a large variety of combinations. These are mixed to create the music track, a process that is ideally hardware supported (i.e. supported by the sound card). The currently available sound cards (e.g. Sound Blaster Live)are capable of mixing a sufficient amount of voices, whereas older cards may not have a sufficient range available. In this case, the CPU will have to do the mixing, which slows the game down. In the worst case, the CPU may be so busy with the music (if the sound card is incapable of dealing with it) that the game may become completely stuck. The only thing you can do about that is to
purchase a later sound card or deactivate the music in Gothic's Audio menu.

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