[Enceladosa]

Hey everyone
When I play Gothic 3 it turns off and shows me a msg called "Where is the guru?" then below it, says something about memory...
My specs:
AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-Core 2.2GHz, 3.0GB Ram, nVidia GeForce 8500 (clocks - 555/1110/555), Windows Vista 32-bit.
When I play on max settings in Gothic 3, it turns off after 5 minutes of playing, if I play on max settings (textures medium) then it turns off after 2 hours. Game is bought from a shop + patch 1.6.
If there is anything that can fix this (except changing win vista to xp) then please help me ?
Cheers

[Larisa]

Welcome here
Make sure you have the latest driver/optimizer for your processor.
Nvidia 8500 is not a high end video card, you could try to set G3's details to medium. Also, make sure you have the latest driver for it and that you don't force settings like anti aliasing.
It is known that with high settings, the game is more prone to crash.


Also, make sure you install at least the directx 9.0c Aug 2006 from the game's disk, if not something newer.

You could try to write us the exact error message from the guru window (in what module was the error, at what address...). Maybe it's a known problem.

[Enceladosa]

Well, yes I know 8500GT is almost the worst 8 series card but still... Gothic 3 works perfectly well on high settings (it just turns off). Got the latest drives for my card, for motherboard too, also got the hotfix for windows vista
And sure, here you go the exact msg:

Where is the guru ?
Gothic3.exe
caused a EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
in module <UNKNOWN> at 001B:3019B3B8


Memory statistics

------>memory allocation summary<-----

Dump Memory/Heapprofile

[Shrike]

Unter Vista 32 öffnen Sie unter "Start" -"Alle Programme" - "Zubehör" per Rechtsklick und "Als Administrator ausführen" eine Eingabeaufforderung.
Dort geben Sie "bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVA 3072" (ohne Ausführungszeichen) ein.
Rechner neustarten.
Da hiermit der adressbereich für Windows-Geräte bereits sehr knapp wird und diese "Speichererweiterung" nur Anwendungen nutzen können, die dafür vorbereitet sind, sollten Sie diesen Trick nur in Ausnahmefällen anwenden.

i ll try to translate it in english:
Under vista 32 bit you have to open start, all programs, Accessories, command promt
right click on it, Run as admin, and enter it exactly ( except the ") like i wrote it.
"bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVA 3072". know there should come the message that it was succesfull. Restart the Computer. now the guru shouldnt come anymore. ( i dont give any garanty that every word i tried to translate is translated correctly)

[Enceladosa]

Hopefully it works
You aren't from eng as I'm, so you don't have to write proper eng thx mate

Edit:
Finally
After months of asking in forums someone resolved my problem
TYVM mate
Cheers

[Elfa]

I did that too, but it didn't work. ^^ll

[Enceladosa]

What bug have you got ?

[Shrike]

I did that too, but it didn't work. ^^ll

It only works under Vista 32bit

[Elfa]

I have Vista Ultimate...

[metoecen]

Well, anyway you've got a doublecore.

[Elfa]

Nope... I have AMD Athlon 64 3500+... XD

[Scraper]

Have you installed Visual C++ 2005 which it asks to install when you install Gothic 3?

For me, 'Where is the guru?' crashing stopped after I managed to install it!
For some reason it didn't install when I bought normal package of Gothic 3 but when I bought Gothic Universal (includes all Gothic games), I managed to install it finally and crashing stopped!
Don't know what is the reason for it to do like this...

Sadly, it started again when I applied 1.6 patch... But I will install the game again and won't apply 1.6 patch this time!

[Snatzh]

I have the same problem with as above...
i`m running Vista Ultimate on..

Intel core 2 duo 2.20Ghz
2Gb ram
8800GTS 320mb

All drivers up to date... some update thingie i like about vista
it does updates automatacly i notised some one asking about dual core... is there a known issue with that?? thx

[WernerTWC]

§welcome!

The dualcore can make problems if it hasn't the proper drivers installed.
When does the error appears, and what is the error message?

[Scraper]

I have the same problem with as above...
i`m running Vista Ultimate on..

Intel core 2 duo 2.20Ghz
2Gb ram
8800GTS 320mb

All drivers up to date... some update thingie i like about vista
it does updates automatacly i notised some one asking about dual core... is there a known issue with that?? thx

I'm running 32-bit version of Vista Ultimate myself...