How to run Gothic II under Linux
[b]1.)Preparing and Installing the Game
2.)Known Bugs
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Note: I'm using the German version of all programs. So I can't say you the correctly English caption of any button. I written the caption Italic when I translated the caption to Englsih. I hope you understand all. If you have any question ask here in the thread.
1.) Preparing and Installing the Game
First of all we need Crossover Linux 6.1 (or newer). We have to make an Image of the second and third Gothic II CD. I like to use K3b.
Open K3b and click on “extras/copy CD”. Select now the disk and click on “make only ISO-File Image”
Under the register “Image” you can choose where to save the ISO-File.
After we created the Images of both CD's, we have to mount them. Here is an easy solution. Open a console,login as root and type this:
mkdir /tmp/gothic2_cd2/
mkdir /tmp/gothic2_cd3/
mount -o loop /path/to/your/ISO-file/of/the/second/cd /tmp/gothic2_cd2
mount -o loop /path/to/your/ISO-file/of/the/third/cd /tmp/gothic2_cd3
After we mount the ISO-file we have to start the Crossover-Configuration-Tool. Click on “CrossOver/Configuration” in your startmenu. Next click on the register “manage Bottles” and create a new “winxp” Bottle. Click on the Button “Configuration”. Go now to the last register (it's called something like “system configuration”) and open “winecfg”.
After “winecfg” opened, click on “Devices”, push “add” and type now the path were you mount the ISO-file of the second Gothic2 Disk. Do the same ones more with the path for the ISO-file of the third Gothic2 Disk.
In the next step we have to click on “Audio” to get sound for our Bottle. You can choose any settings which you want. I had the best audio-quality with the settings on the picture.
Now we have a very important step to do. We have to overwrite some DLL files.
First you have to download or copy from an installed Windows (C:/windows/system32/ )the following DLL files:
dmband.dll dmcompos.dll dmine.dll dmloader.dll dmstyle.dll dmsynth.dll dmusic.dll
Copy the DLL files to the system32 folder of your Gothic2-Bottle (in my case it is /home/thomas/.cxoffice/gothic2/drive_c/windows/system32).
Now we have the say Crossover that it have you use the DLL files. Open “winecfg” and click on the register “Library”. Type now the name of the DLL files and click “add”
Note: type the name of the DLL files without the ending .dll e.g. for dmusic.dll type just dmusic
If you added all DLL files it should show something like on the picture.
Go now to “Crossover/Install Windows-software”. Click on “Install non supported Software”. Now you have to select where you insert your Gothic II CD.
In the next step you have to select our Gothic2-Bottle and the AutoRun should start. You can install Gothic II like under Windows now.
If the setup need the others CD's, you have to type the Windows-Path of the ISO-Files. Normally the second CD is D: and the third E:.
You can now apply a patch for Gothic 2 or you can install now the addon "Night of Raven". To install the addon just insert the CD and install it to your gothic2-bottle. If all done you can unmount the ISO-Files with:
umount /tmp/gothic2_cd2
umount /tmp/gothic2_cd3
2.)Known Bugs
The game itself runs quite good. No grafic/sound issue. I found only the following Bugs/Issue:
- the videos stutters and you can't skip them
- if you play Gothic II with the addon the startup will need very long and you have to change the resolution every time