Open source re-implementation of Gothic 2: Night of the Raven.
Motivation: The original Gothic 1 and Gothic 2 are still great games, but it's not easy to make them work on modern systems. The goal of this project is to make a feature complete Gothic game client compatible with the original game data and mods.
Development is focused on Gothic 2 and new features are not tested for Gothic 1 compatibility. While Gothic 1 is not officially supported pull requests that fix Gothic 1 โ and general โ bugs are welcome.
The original game has been replicated fully; you can complete both the main quest and the addon. Check out the bugtracker for a list of known issues.
OpenGothic is designed to utilize features of modern graphic hardware and api's like mesh shaders or ray tracing. While mesh-shader not mandatory, yet don't expect OpenGothic to run well on low-end or outdated graphic cards.
Gothic 2: Night of the Raven is required as OpenGothic does not provide any built-in game assets or scripts.
Supported systems are:
- Windows (DX12, Vulkan)
- Linux (Vulkan)
- MacOS (Metal)
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If not already done install Gothic. OpenGothic comes with auto-path detection if your Gothic files are in a common path.
- "C:\Program Files (x86)\JoWooD\Gothic II"
- "C:\Gothic II"
- "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Gothic II"
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Download OpenGothic and extract into a folder of your choice. Available options are:
- A Pre-Release (recommended)
- Alternatively a recent test build from CI
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Run
Gothic2Notr.exe
.If nothing happens check
log.txt
and look for the lineinvalid gothic path
. In this case OpenGothic fails to find your Gothic installation and you have to explicitly specify its location via-g
paramter. Either you create a shortcut toGothic2Notr.exe
and change the target line in Properties to e.g.Gothic2Notr.exe -g "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Gothic II"
or you can edit
Gothic2Notr.bat
and run this file instead.
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If not already done install Gothic via Wine/Proton or copy the game files from a Windows installation.
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You can download a build from CI and extract into a folder of your choice. Alternatively OpenGothic can be built manually. For Arch the AUR provides a 3rd party package.
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Run
Gothic2Notr.sh -g "~/PlayOnLinux's virtual drives/Gothic2_gog/drive_c/Gothic II"
(example path, use path to your Gothic installation instead)You can edit
Gothic2Notr.sh
and change the lineexec "$DIR/Gothic2Notr" "$@"
toexec "$DIR/Gothic2Notr" "$@" -g "~/PlayOnLinux's virtual drives/Gothic2_gog/drive_c/Gothic II"
to not have to enter path manually every time. Then run
Gothic2Notr.sh
without arguments to start.
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If not already done install Gothic. Instructions how to obtain the game files can be found here. OpenGothic comes with auto-path detection if your Gothic files are in
"~/Library/Application Support/OpenGothic"
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Download a build from Mac Source Ports and follow the installation instructions given there. Alternatively recent test builds are available from CI that can be extracted into a folder of your choice. You can compile a fresh build as well.
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Run
Gothic2Notr.sh
If OpenGothic fails to find your Gothic files you have to explicitly specify its location via
-g
parameter. Change the lineexec "$DIR/Gothic2Notr" "$@"
to reflect your Gothic path e.g.exec "$DIR/Gothic2Notr" "$@" -g "~/PlayOnLinux's virtual drives/Gothic2_gog/drive_c/Gothic II"
Mods can be installed as usual. Provide the modfile.ini
to OpenGothic via -game:
parameter to play. Example:
Gothic2Notr.exe -game:Karibik.ini
Content mods (retexture/reworld/animations) that only rely on regular scripting and do not use memory hacking.
- Ikarus/LeGo
There are ongoing efforts to support parts of it to make at least some popular mods like Chronicles of Myrtana
playable. Progress can be tracked in the corresponding issue. An explanantion how Ikarus works is given here.
- Union (32 bit and Windows only, not possible)
- DX11 Renderer - same as Union, but don't worry - OpenGothic has nice graphics out of the box
- AST sdk
- Ninja
Install dependencies:
- Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 and their derived distros
source <(cat /etc/os-release | grep UBUNTU_CODENAME)
# latest Vulkan SDK provided externally as Ubuntu packages are usually older
wget -qO - http://packages.lunarg.com/lunarg-signing-key-pub.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo wget -qO /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lunarg-vulkan-${UBUNTU_CODENAME}.list http://packages.lunarg.com/vulkan/lunarg-vulkan-${UBUNTU_CODENAME}.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install vulkan-sdk
# distro-provided packages
sudo apt install git cmake g++ glslang-tools libvulkan-dev libasound2-dev libx11-dev libxcursor-dev
- Arch
sudo pacman -S git cmake gcc glslang vulkan-devel alsa-lib libx11 libxcursor vulkan-icd-loader libglvnd
- Fedora
sudo dnf install git cmake gcc-c++ glslang vulkan-loader-devel alsa-lib-devel libX11-devel libXcursor-devel vulkan-validation-layers-devel libglvnd-devel
# 1st time build:
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/Try/OpenGothic.git
cd OpenGothic
cmake -B build -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=RelWithDebInfo
make -C build -j $(nproc)
# following builds:
git pull --recurse-submodules
make -C build -j $(nproc)
Executables can be located at OpenGothic/build/opengothic
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brew install glslang
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/Try/OpenGothic.git
cd OpenGothic
cmake -H. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=RelWithDebInfo
cmake --build ./build --target Gothic2Notr
Executables can be located at OpenGothic/build/opengothic
.
Game menu in gothic is done by scripting. While orignal graphics settings do not apply to current-gen graphics, engine redefines meaning for some of tweakables:
Settings
->Extended configuration
Cloud Shadows
mapped to SSAO.Radial Fog
mapped to "Volumetric fog"Reflections
reused, for screen space reflections
Settings
->Video settings
- Internal rendering resolution, for 3D, can be altered here. UI and text is always rendered at full resolution.
- Application command line:
- Ray tracing: setting affects only capable hardware, off by default for igpu's, add
-rt 1
to enable
- Ray tracing: setting affects only capable hardware, off by default for igpu's, add
Rendering distance is not customizable.
Argument(s) | Description |
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-g |
specify path containing Gothic game data |
-game:<modfile.init> |
specify game modification manifest (GothicStarter compatibility) |
-nomenu |
skip main menu |
-devmode |
enable marvin-mode at start of the game |
-w <worldname.zen> |
startup world; newworld.zen is default |
-save q |
load the quick save on start |
-save <number> |
load a specified save-game slot on start |
-v -validation |
enable validation layers for graphics api |
-dx12 |
force DirectX 12 renderer instead of Vulkan (Windows only) |
-g1 |
assume a Gothic 1 installation |
-g2c |
assume a Gothic 2 classic installation |
-g2 |
assume a Gothic 2 night of the raven installation |
-rt <boolean> |
explicitly enable or disable ray-query |
-gi <boolean> |
explicitly enable or disable ray-traced global illumination |
-ms <boolean> |
explicitly enable or disable meshlets |
-fxaa <number> |
enable FXAA anti-aliasing (number = 1-5, 5 = most expensive AA) |
-window |
windowed debugging mode (not to be used for playing) |