txa1265
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Have you tried Spine for Gothic? It's an all-in-one patcher and seems to work very well. Unfortunately, Gothic2 has become clunky to me. Sad to say, it was my favorite game for years but I just can't get into it anymore.
OK - this is SO cool! Spine took care of my issues on the Surface Pro! Gothic 2 NotR plays great ... interestingly Spine trashed the files responsible for dialog (sound AND text) as apparently it thinks the GoG install looks like a pirated copy and changes a few file extensions. Known problem, easy to fix and BAM - running great again! Thanks again SO MUCH for the pointer!
Yeah, I'm not sure any games age badly while at the same time think that all games probably age badly, and while this may seem like an impossible statement it's really not.
As I have thought more, the one thing I think marks something that has "aged badly" is when it works on release but has so much custom non-standard code that it immediately breaks on a new OS or CPU/GPU generation. My son had a game "Spiderman and the Sinister Six" in the early 2000s that worked great on ONE Dell laptop I had running Win98 but never on anything else ... when the laptop died the game was dead as well.
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