Tools
There are various ways to go about this whole endeavour. You can do everything manually from the command line with wine and winetricks which I don’t recommend. The reason is that there are great tools available for helping you set everything up that work very well.
By now there are so many app/game launchers that it’s not practical to maintain installation instructions for each of them. These include:
Requirements
Whatever tools you use, in order for playing Gothic you need to achieve the following:
- Setup a Wine prefix
- Install Windows DLLs into this prefix
- Define DLL overrides
As long as you manage this, it doesn’t matter how you do this. The following two sections contain instructions for the two GUI applications that I have personal experience with.
Recommendation
Personally, I use Lutris for everything described here. It is not necessarily the best or most pretty tool but, to the best of my knowledge, it is the only one that has the capability of automating the game installation process via scripting which I find highly attractive (see installation instructions on this page for scripts).
If you care about this, I recommend you also use Lutris, otherwise, it really doesn’t matter.