Running REGoth

Once you have downloaded a build of REGoth or built it from source, you will find a number of binaries to play with, like REGothWorldViewer.

The most easy way to set up REGoth correctly is to drop everything somewhere into the Gothic game installation you want to play. That means, create a sub-directory anywhere you like and put the executables and everything that goes with it there.

For example, place it like this:

C:/Games/Gothic2/REGoth

Or like this:

C:/Games/Gothic2/REGoth/Nightly-build-123/

or even like this:

C:/Games/Gothic2/this/is/some/bogus/path

All of those will work.

Note

REGoth will search the directory tree upwards for a gothic game installation, you can freely choose where you put REGoth, as long as it is somewhere inside a Gothic game directory.

Running from outside of a Gothic installation

If you are building REGoth from source, it may be more comfortable to run it from the build directory instead of copying it over to a Gothic installation. All REGoth executables accept a path to a gothic game root as first commandline argument.

For example, you can run REGoth like this:

./REGothWorldViewer ~/games/Gothic2

Note

Windows: When building from source, not all required DLLs are copied into the build directory automatically as of now. If you get complains about bsfPhysX.dll failing to load, try to copy the DLLs inside REGoth-bs/lib/bsf/Dependencies/PhysX/lib/ next to your REGoth executables.

Note

Linux: If you get complains about missing .so files when you try to run an executable, try running it as LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../lib ./REGothSomething. Also, you might get an error indicating libPhysX3_x64.so not being found. You need to go into REGoth-bs/lib/bsf/Dependencies/PhysX/lib/ and copy all .so-files to the location where libbsf.so was built, usually REGoth/build/lib.

The Asset Cache

When loading a world for the first time, REGoth will convert the resources of the original Gothic game into a more modern format faster to load next time. If you want to re-import everything, simply delete the cache/ directory next to your REGoth executables.

If you only want to re-import a world, you can delete cache/worlds while leaving the rest for faster startup time.