- Gothic 2 gold edition crashes install#
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- Gothic 2 gold edition crashes windows#
Gothic 2 gold edition crashes code#
So those CPU features don't kill Far Cry, but the game's startup/loading code apparently doesn't handle the dynamic CPU clock very well even though it seems to cause no actual harm other than being slow. By disabling TurboCore and Cool'n'Quiet however the game loads up very quickly and runs fine. Eventually it loads and the game seems to run totally fine after though. The game starts up but is very very slow to start, with the loading bar hanging for a minute or two before finally proceeding. One game that experiences problem #2 here on GOG is "Far Cry". Some problems can include a game just crashing outright, or starting up slow, or other kinds of misbehaviour depending on the nature of how and when the CPU frequency might change and how it might interact negatively with the game's bad assumptions about the CPU clock. That can result in a multitude of potential problems with no absolute pattern. CPU technologies that can dynamically scale the processor speed up or down (ie: AMD's TurboCore and Cool'n'Quiet or Intel's equivalents) can cause these timing algorithms to malfunction in games. Many games contain timing related algorithms that may possibly make bad assumptions about the clock frequency of the processor being a static thing. Generally this can be resolved by restricting the application to 1 or 2 cores using OS supplied or 3rd party addon utilities, ie: the "START" command in Windows.Ģ) CPU frequency scaling technology found in newer CPUs over the last decade or so. Multi-threaded apps that are not SMP aware/optimized and cause cache thrashing can dramatically slow down the app running on multi-processor and/or multi-core systems. If that works there are two problems that can have that symptom that I know of, but it could be something else also.ġ) SMP cache thrashing. At that point it looks and runs great don't think I'll even be looking into any widescreen mods. (6) Add any necessary command line switches to the "Target" box of your new VTMB shortcut.TinyE: I think I got it running, it just takes a long time.Īfter I click on the icon I need to wait 2 or 3 minutes.
Gothic 2 gold edition crashes windows#
Simply locate the vampire.exe file, highlight and copy it (press Ctrl-C) and then, right-click anywhere on an empty area of your Windows desktop and select "Paste shortcut" from the pop-up menu (or whatever the equivalent command is for Windows 7). (5) Create a new desktop shortcut to the vampire.exe file within your main VTMB folder.
Gothic 2 gold edition crashes install#
(4) Install any TPG-compatible mods that you might wish to use.
Gothic 2 gold edition crashes Patch#
(3) Install the True Patch Gold Edition -after- you have moved the entire game away from Steam. I suggest placing it in its own unique directory called "VTMB" or something similar. (2) MOVE that entire VTMB folder (and everything that it contains, including all sub-folders) to a new location on your hard drive. (1) Locate your VTMB installation within your Steam folders. I'm not a techy but I am assuming the method and reasoning would be the same for this game: OK VTMB refers to the other game so ignore that and any specific patches or mods in the instructions. This works in at least one game I know of I'll get the details as it might work for this one too. You might have to rename and move it to a new folder. Steam isn't compatible with many of the older games they sell. I'd also strongly recommend you doing a clean reinstall, without any patches whatsoever, as my Gothic (I + II) experience taught me you don't need any of those to complete the game in a perfectly fine manner. Try disabling that: Steam -> Settings -> In-Game and make sure the option is not checked. Kojocel: The main problem of Steam versions of Gothic that leads to crashes (especially Access Violation) comes from In-Game Steam Community overlay.