Gothic 3 Bugs and Patches

The game's on sale this weekend but reading the reviews, I see that it was very buggy on release. Does anyone know if the patches ever ended up doing their job? And will it even matter on a more modern PC?

The company bankrupted as far as I know; either way they stopped releasing patches for it a long time ago. There have been some community mods that supposedly help things along, but the last time I tried these the game still ran like crap on a pretty monster machine, so it's your call. Risky investment, if not a pretty cheap one.

The Steam version of Gothic 3 runs fine and has all the patches. Do not try to customize the graphics settings - the game will crash no matter what kind of rig you have - just set it to "high" settings, and you'll be fine.

I'm playing Gothic 2 now, which is actually better than Gothic 3, and I highly recommend it. At first I couldn't get it to run - until I turned off Kaspersky antivirus - now it runs great, I just have to remember to turn my AV back on after playing.

There where tons of issues when it first came out but man there have been some awesome updates for it. The last two COMMUNITY patches are wicked and make the game run well.

As for the game I really enjoy this series, its very hard but its very rewarding. Tons to do and alot of great missions and characters.

Steam version of Gothic3 has Community Patch 1.6 but NOT 1.7, download that and install it, it works with Steam version and it makes the game even better.

Iam playing Gothic 3 with Community Patch 1.7 and it runs like a charm...no slo downs no crashes no nothing...ived been playing the game for 3 weeks now and i didnt have any probs with it...and iam playing it maxed out @ 1920x1080

Anyhow if u make up ur mind and get this game be sure to install 1.7 patch...coz this patch adresses almost all of the bugs,glitches and it will add nice visual improvements to the game and many more.:D

Gothic 3 has to be one of the best RPG out there.

Tried to play it with the latest community patch but I find it unplayable on my pc. I'm getting pretty bad performance and also extreme stuttering when looking around and it often freezes for several seconds.

The first time I played it, it crashed all the time, there were numerous bugs, it was unstable, etc.

The most recent time I played it (with the community patches) it was perfectly fine. I didn't experience (m)any crashes or major problems in my 60+ hours of play.

Tried to play it with the latest community patch but I find it unplayable on my pc. I'm getting pretty bad performance and also extreme stuttering when looking around and it often freezes for several seconds.

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Might be because u dont have enough memory...only 2 gigs of ram...

On my pc it runs smoothly and i have all details on max i have 4xAA(or 2xAA?) and i run it @1920X1080

If it runs badly on ur PC it must be because u configured it wrong or smth...I have a better cpu and more rams than you so maybe thats making a diff too...