Gold Remaster

This is mostly a graphics mod which takes a lot of stuff and textures from other mods, like L'Hiver, and packages it up into one beautiful thing. It comes with a couple of scripts that makes a few changes to balancing and add a couple things so this is ideal, if you want a more beautiful version of the vanilla game and, some sensible changes to balancing.

The release announcement can be found here.

In my opinion, this mod is the definitive way to play the base game (unless you really prefer the vanilla version). It's basically Gothic II in pretty, without some of the silly design decisions of the original and some thoughtful changes instead.

Manual Instructions

1. Start with a fresh unpatched installation of the game
2. Install fix-2.6.0.0-rev2 (necessary to be able to install Union)
3. Install Union1.0
4. (Optional) Install Ninja
5. (Optional) Install D3D11 Renderer (with DLL override)
6. (Optional, if D3D11 renderer was installed) Install NormalMaps
7. Execute Remaster executable
8. (Optional) Install Remaster Scripts (version adapted to Remaster)
9. (Optional) Install functional mods you like
10. Start the game with $BASE_DIR/system/GothicStarter.exe

Note

The patches for the report version and player kit are already included in the installer. The report version needs to be installed nonetheless because Union cannot be installed to the vanilla GOG version of the game.

Lutris Install Script

Note

The installation for the normalmaps and the Remaster itself will show an error, because they cannot find the GothicStarter.exe file. This is installed by the Remaster itself, so you can safely ignore the errors.

description: "Installer for Gothic II Gold Remaster mod with textures, normalmaps, Remaster scripts and D3D11 renderer activated and support for Ninja and Union mods"
game_slug: gothic-ii-gold-edition-remaster
gogslug: gothic_2_gold_edition
installer_slug: gothic2-gog
name: "Gothic II: Gold Remaster"
slug: gothic2-gog
gogid: 1207658718
version: GOG
year: 2003
notes:
  "Hassle free installer of Gothic II Gold Remaster. Click \"Continue\" button in\
  \ any pop-up during the installation. Please be patient, some steps take time to\
  \ execute. After the installation of the mod, the normalmaps and the Remaster scripts the\
  \ game launcher will start. This needs to be exited manually for the install script\
  \ to finish successfully."
runner: wine
script:
  files:
    - setup: N/A:Select the GOG game setup file
    - normalmaps:
        filename: G2_Gold_Remaster_normalmaps.exe
        url: https://www.worldofgothic.de/download.php?id=1657
    - remaster:
        filename: G2_remaster.exe
        url: https://www.worldofgothic.de/download.php?id=1647
    - union:
        filename: Union.exe
        url: https://www.worldofgothic.de/download.php?id=1625
    - ninja: https://github.com/szapp/Ninja/releases/download/v4.1.16/Ninja-4.1.16.exe
    - ninja_toolkit:
        filename: Toolkit.vdf
        url: https://www.worldofgothic.de/download.php?id=1861
    - gd3d11: https://github.com/kirides/GD3D11/releases/download/v17.9.7/GD3D11-v17.9.7.zip
    - intro_video:
        filename: intro.zip
        url: https://www.worldofgothic.net/download.php?id=1718
  system:
    env:
      UNIONPATH: $GAMEDIR/drive_c/ProgramData/Union/System/
  variables:
    gamedatapath: drive_c/GOG Games/Gothic 2 Gold/Data
    gamepath: drive_c/GOG Games/Gothic 2 Gold
    gamesystempath: drive_c/GOG Games/Gothic 2 Gold/system
  wine:
    overrides:
      ddraw: n,b
      dinput: n,b
      dsound: b,n
  game:
    arch: win64
    exe: $gamesystempath/GothicStarter.exe
    args: -game:Remaster -start
    prefix: $GAMEDIR
  installer:
    - task:
        arch: win64
        description: Creating 64-bit Wine prefix
        install_gecko: false
        install_mono: true
        name: create_prefix
        prefix: $GAMEDIR
    - task:
        app: win10
        arch: win64
        description: "winetricks: win10"
        name: winetricks
        prefix: $GAMEDIR
    - task:
        arch: win64
        args: /SP- /SUPRESSMSGBOXES /LOG /SILENT
        description: Installing Gothic II
        executable: setup
        name: wineexec
        prefix: $GAMEDIR
    - task:
        app: "directmusic dotnet48 vcrun2022 dxvk"
        arch: win64
        description: Install wine dependencies. This will take some time.
        name: winetricks
        prefix: $GAMEDIR
    - execute:
        command: mkdir -p $UNIONPATH
    - execute:
        command: printf "\r\nC:\GOG Games\Gothic 2 Gold\\\\\\r\n" > $UNIONPATH/history_d.cs
    - execute:
        command: echo "ENG" > $UNIONPATH/Language.cs
    - task:
        arch: win64
        args: /S /D=C:\\GOG Games\\Gothic 2 Gold
        description: Install Ninja mod
        executable: ninja
        name: wineexec
        prefix: $GAMEDIR
        working_dir: $GAMEDIR
    - copy:
        src: ninja_toolkit
        dst: $GAMEDIR/$gamedatapath
    - extract:
        dst: $GAMEDIR/$gamesystempath
        file: gd3d11
    - task:
        arch: win64
        args: /S /D"C:\GOG Games\Gothic 2 Gold"
        description: Install Normalmaps
        executable: normalmaps
        name: wineexec
        prefix: $GAMEDIR
        working_dir: $GAMEDIR
    - task:
        arch: win64
        args: /S /D=C:\\GOG Games\\Gothic 2 Gold
        description: Install Remaster
        executable: remaster
        name: wineexec
        prefix: $GAMEDIR
        working_dir: $GAMEDIR
    - task:
        arch: win64
        args: /S /D"C:\GOG Games\Gothic 2 Gold"
        description: Install Union patch
        executable: union
        name: wineexec
        prefix: $GAMEDIR
        working_dir: $GAMEDIR
    - extract:
        dst: $GAMEDIR/$gamepath/_work/Data/Video
        file: intro_video
    - write_config:
        data:
          GAME:
            playLogoVideos: 0
            scaleVideos: 1
            subTitles: 1
            enableJoystick: 0
        description: Updating 'gothic.ini' file
        file: $GAMEDIR/$gamesystempath/GOTHIC.INI
    - write_config:
        data:
          Display:
            Brightness: 1.0
            Rain: 1
            RainEffects: 1
            TextureQuality: 16384
            UIScale: 1.0
            VSync: 1
          FontRendering:
            Enable: 1
          General:
            AllowNormalmaps: 1
            AnimateStaticVobs: 1
            DrawWorldSectionIntersections: 1
            EnableDebugLog: 0
            EnableGodRays: 1
            EnableInactiveFpsLock: 1
            FpsLimit: 60
            SunLightStrength: 1.5
          HBAO:
            Bias: 0.5
            BlurSharpness: 4.0
            EnableBlur: 1
            Enabled: 0
            PowerExponent: 3.0
            Radius: 1.0
            SsaoBlurRadius: 1
            SsaoStepCount: 0
          SMAA:
            Enabled: 1
            SharpenFactor: 0.2
          Shadows:
            EnableDynamicLighting: 1
            EnableShadows: 1
            EnableSoftShadows: 1
            PointlightShadows: 2
            ShadowAOStrength: 0.5
            ShadowMapSize: 2048
            ShadowStrength: 0.4
            SmoothCameraUpdate: 1
            WorldAOStrength: 0.5
            WorldShadowRangeScale: 8.0
        description: Updating GD3D11 config
        file: $GAMEDIR/$gamesystempath/GD3D11/UserSettings.ini