Sticky for Gothic 3 optimization suggestions?

hackbod · 07-26-2012, 12:58 PM

I think there deserves to be a sticky for suggestions on optimizing Gothic 3's performance -- it's a really great game, but seriously marred by issues, most of which can be fixed.

The first thing to do is to install the latest community match, which seems to be 1.75.14: http://www.patches-scrolls.de/gothic3.php#175

I've installed this over the Steam version, and it works great.

Unfortunately for some reason the patch doesn't seem to directly fix one of the most significant problems I have with Gothic 3 -- the terrible view distance. It does seem to make it *possible* to fix it, however you need to edit the game's ini file to do this. Someone on the forum here posted a link to an improved ini file, however it doesn't directly work with 1.75.14, and has some problems.

Here is a link to the ini file I have created so far: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_w...ENCRVR1WmJiMWM

You should be able to directly replace your current ge3.ini (located in your Steam apps dir at common/gothic3/Ini/ge3.ini), though you will want to make a copy of your original file just in case.

The main changes I made from the original "far distance" ini file was to rework the High graphics settings to give you all of the advantages I really wanted (using highest quality textures, nice far view distances) without going overboard. This setting runs great on my GTX560Ti. I also fixed a few issues such as reducing the ROI so that you don't have the issue with audio cutting in and out.

One other thing I would recommend is to go into the game's controller settings and completely turn off mouse smoothing.

Anyone else have suggestions for improvements that can be made to this ini file?

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07-26-2012, 12:58 PM	#1
hackbod Join Date: Feb 2012 Reputation: 0 Posts: 2	Sticky for Gothic 3 optimization suggestions? I think there deserves to be a sticky for suggestions on optimizing Gothic 3's performance -- it's a really great game, but seriously marred by issues, most of which can be fixed. The first thing to do is to install the latest community match, which seems to be 1.75.14: http://www.patches-scrolls.de/gothic3.php#175 I've installed this over the Steam version, and it works great. Unfortunately for some reason the patch doesn't seem to directly fix one of the most significant problems I have with Gothic 3 -- the terrible view distance. It does seem to make it possible to fix it, however you need to edit the game's ini file to do this. Someone on the forum here posted a link to an improved ini file, however it doesn't directly work with 1.75.14, and has some problems. Here is a link to the ini file I have created so far: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_w...ENCRVR1WmJiMWM You should be able to directly replace your current ge3.ini (located in your Steam apps dir at common/gothic3/Ini/ge3.ini), though you will want to make a copy of your original file just in case. The main changes I made from the original "far distance" ini file was to rework the High graphics settings to give you all of the advantages I really wanted (using highest quality textures, nice far view distances) without going overboard. This setting runs great on my GTX560Ti. I also fixed a few issues such as reducing the ROI so that you don't have the issue with audio cutting in and out. One other thing I would recommend is to go into the game's controller settings and completely turn off mouse smoothing. Anyone else have suggestions for improvements that can be made to this ini file?