Originally Posted by lanux128 
the guys from Ironkeep Studios mentioned in this thread here that they're "developing a community patch for Gothic 1". maybe it's worth a try to post about this bug and see what they can come up with.
It's already posted. I think the guy who made the proposal is the same who wanted to fix the problem a year ago. Well, good luck this time, I don't care anymore, since I just finished the game, and probably won't play it until another 3 years, by then I'll hopefully have a new gfx-card

Just remember that 20 years ago, they didn'thave images either, but everything was text-based. Then you can enjoy the game even without pictures in the inventory…