There have been performance problems on certain machines for Arcania - Gothic 4

JoWooD Entertainment, BVT Group and Spellbound today release a hotfix for ArcaniA – Gothic 4, which distinctly increases performance on specific systems. This hotfix (about 15MB) is available via the Auto-Updater or can be installed manually.

It makes one wonder whether or not SecuROM has anything to do with it or if they put out code that wasn’t quite finished.

Reports indicate that the game had problems with everything from not even starting properly to the demo causing overheating on GPUs, the game and cinematics running too fast or too slow and some stability issues where the game itself is crashing.

The patch should fix many of these issues and some other known bugs that they’ve been working to squash.

Lowest Working Spec
The lowest playable spec on low graphics (theoretical)

Minimum - Official

* Windows XP/Vista/7 (32/64 bit)
* Intel Core 2 Duo-Processor
* 1 GB RAM (XP)/2 GB RAM (Vista)
* GeForce 8800 GTX

Recommended - Official

* Windows XP/Vista/7 (32/64 bit)
* Intel Quad Core
* 2 GB RAM
* GeForce GTX 280