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After alot of tweaking, waiting for patches, now 1.09, I can play the game again. It is still a bit unwieldy and laggs often but some of the more real hardbugs are gone. It still CTD's but not as often. I am on a Athlom AM2 400 + with a GeForce 7800 GT card and has 2 gigs of really quick RAM so my puter isn't the bottle neck, Gothic 3 is just badly optimized and the thing with no loadtimes takes it tolls. To get it to somewhat playable speed, I have disable more or less all shadows and dynamic lightings, however I increased the buffers to max and also have the sight set to maximum as well, makes archery a bit more useful as well.

The game is like a really mixed compot of glorious moments of sheer adventures luck, and frustrating unsolvable quests and the chopices you make doens't always just have an impact on how to play it is also if you can solve the major quest as well. If you can't do or solve all quests in a city, you might not get the necesary influence to do the "peaceful" way but have to go almighty brute, and that means that you will be running and potioning alot!

Sometimes it is really understandable what and how to do so you can focus and concentrate on one quest, sometimes however you will see that you solved quests you didn't have in your log book so.. it is all up to how you like things to play out. Never the less, once the technical bugs are straightened out and if you can get a decent speed on the graphics the game is enjoyable. Unfortunately it is IMO one of those games one will allways think "what if it just had been smoother and better optimized". Gothic 3 could have been so much more, as it is now it is another run around and collect flowers game that lets you do alot of things while your having a fun adventure.