Hello awesome people!
I do have a problem with Gothic 1 and use Windows 8.1 Pro 64 Bit. I made a fresh 1.08k installation and the game starts perfectly fine, in fullscreen mode, ingame does look normal aswell.
However as soon as I install the playerkits (I do have the problem with both of them) the game becomes perma blackscreen everywhere (cutscenes, main menu and ingame).
Then I installed the systempack in the hope that it would fix the problem itself. It did not, but added the Access Violation error to the list of problems.
Everything was installed as admin. The location is "C:/Gothic". I updated the drivers. Updated DirectX. I do not have Gsync. The preffered refresh rate is set to application controlled. Reboot did nothing. A patch that was posted here sometime ago did not fix it. Windows is fully updated. Started the game as admin and not as admin. With Windows XP Pack 2 compatibility and without.
I tried various attempts of fixes and solutions and new clean admin installations.
Did I miss something very obvious as the dumbass that I am or did I break the matrix?
I would be very happy about every kind of help :]
Edit 1: Link to my dxdiag if it is needed -
https://pastebin.com/aZvvwqer
Edit 2: Ok, if I setup window mode in the gothic.ini I can get the main menu perfectly to work. Now the menu says "1.08k_mod(SP 1.7)" aswell. However as soon as I hit the "new game" button, the game crashes down to Access Violation again.
Edit 3: New clean install again. Only installed the playerkits this time. Still get the blackscreens everywhere. Still no Access Violation, which seems indeed to be caused by the systempack then. Then I setup window mode again and the game is now perfectly fine with the playerkits and without the systempack. The blackscreen problem caused by the playerkits is annoying, but avoidable (avoidable with window mode). The crash issue caused by the systempack is not avoidable. Maybe both issues have the same source of problem, though?