Thanks @mud-freak. Everything works fine!

@LlamaSpitsFire Install the Toolkit, like the error message says. You can find Toolkit in the Steam Workshop as well.

Removing _delete_me.vdf helps a little - game is now loading with Ninja subscribed but there is still issue with plugin Bonus Independent Training - after enabling it shows upon startup "Missing dependency" error

Deleting the file worked for me.
Thanks @mud-freak

If really not a hidden file (need to enable showing hidden files), try completely unsubscribing from Ninja, starting Gothic, then restarting Steam and finally resubscribing. That‘s just a guess. The error says there is a file _delete_me.vdf in the Data directory while the game is running.

Same Issue as waldlaeufer here: Problem is thet the file "_delete_me.vdf" is nowhere to be found in the steam game directory

@waldlaeufer Thanks for reporting that! That file is a left-over from a previous Gothic session that seemingly didn't clean up properly. In your Steam directory find the Data folder in Gothic 2 ( C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Gothic II\Data ) and delete the file _delete_me.vdf in there. It might be a hidden file.

After your Update and the integration of toolkit dependency i get following error message when starting the game: J:NINJA: Illegal VDF: _DELETE_ME
Mods:
Toolkit
Ninja
Union - patch for Gothic 2
D3D11 Renderer Mod

How can I remove it or solve the problem?

There will be a release that should reduce the false-positive detections. There is just little time at the moment. Please be patient or verify the software using the check sums from the above linked website and add exclusions once convinced.

banger

Ich hab sämtliche Mods + Ninja bereits mehrmals runtergeladen und es scheint nicht zu funktionieren, woran könnte das liegen?

Repair this ... please

Dear mud-freak [author],

As you are undoubtedly aware, this mod is being flagged as malware. From what I've surmised this is a false positive yet it nonetheless instills a sense of unease and dread in me. Help me mud-freak [author], I beseech you!

I need to read it from your own keyboard. Is this indeed a false positive, and will you pinky promise that my information is not sold to Indian scammers? I NEED YOU TO SAY IT.

With regards,
-Me

I allowed defender in windows 10 to run this file and the game (unofficial.modification) is now working.

A code signing certificate was issued to help remove the false positive detection. Read more about it here and how you can support the project and incurring costs: https://github.com/szapp/Ninja/discussions/37

Fix waiting room

Anti virus detection strategies might have changed. Ninja is open source [github.com] and provides check-sums [github.com] for end-users to confirm. The project lacks financial support for explicitly signing the software. For now, this means anyone can help by reporting the file as non-threat and adding exclusion rules to their anti virus software.

Same problem

Also have the same problem as Famrir, couldn't even react because defender already deleted the file and I couldn't restore it

Same

For some reason the game won't start today.I have installed Ninja/Union/ItemMap from Steam and GD3D11 from Github.When i disable ninja the game starts,but when i enable it and try to start,Windows Defender shows this:

Detected: Adware:Win32/Agent
Status: Removed

Details: This program delivers potentially unwanted advertisements to your computer.

Affected items:

file: D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Gothic II\system\ninja.dll

I allowed it in Microsoft Defender and i can play again with the mods,but is it safe?

Can I just say props to the author @mud-freak for being so responsive and making this mod. Even if I'm not quite sure what it does. It makes mods run better? Ok good enough for me. I'm the average consumer

I would never have guessed on my own that this setting could affect on it.

@Zuben thanks for letting me know! Have fun playing!

@mud-freak Excluding gothic2.exe in DEP settings resolve problem and gothic2 with ninja has work. Thanks for help.

No, Ninja only minimally triggers native engine functions of Gothic and does not rely on any external libraries. You can check if your data execution prevention (DEP) settings have changed (google for details): The gothic executables should be either excluded or DEP disabled/only enabled for Windows processes. Additionally, check if Gothic is installed in the Program Files directories (that should be avoided) and everything is launched with administrative privileges.

That's exactly what I checked today and it still doesn't start. Are there any net frameworks or somthings unrelated to gothic what can affect the performance of this?

Just to make sure we are on the same page:
1. You installed Gothic 2: Gold Edition on Steam
2. You activated the Workshop Beta
3. You subscribed to Ninja in the Steam Workshop
4. You have (for temporary testing purposes) no other workshop item subscribed than Ninja
5. Your Gothic installation is exclusively maintained by Steam and there is no extra software/tools/mods you installed manually.

In that configuration, my game starts without problems. If you follow the configuration above to the letter, do you still have the issue? Or does your configuration look different?

I have no idea what happened. I deleted all the Gothic files, installed clean gothic only added ninja and it still doesn't work. On the exact same configuration with union it worked without a problem a few days ago. It wasn't even the reinstall that broke it the first time, it was just checking the integrity of the files on steam.

P:\dev\g2addon\release\Gothic\_bert\oGameManager.cpp, line 956
0023:00424DEE (0x008D422C 0x0082F0EC 0x00000001 0x002D05CC) Gothic2.exe, CGameManager::Init()+382 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\Gothic\_bert\oGameManager.cpp, line 493
0023:00781882 (0x0000002C 0x0020470C 0x00000046 0x00000000) Gothic2.exe, MainProg()+66 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\Gothic\_ulf\Phoenix.cpp, line 110
0023:00503270 (0x00400000 0x00000000 0x01536094 0x0000000A) Gothic2.exe, HandledWinMain()+928 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\ZenGin\_carsten\zWin32.cpp, line 1169
0023:00502DFD (0x0135FEB8 0x00000000 0x01536094 0x0000000A) Gothic2.exe, WinMain()+141 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\ZenGin\_carsten\zWin32.cpp, line 1054+17 byte(s)
0023:007D43F8 (0x00000004 0x0000FFFF 0x000000B8 0x00000000) Gothic2.exe, WinMainCRTStartup()+224 byte(s)

@mud-freak If instal ninja on pure gothic 2 gold without any other mods expect ninja game still crashes with another error.
Startup Options:-game:GothicGame.ini

0023:0078F660 (0x0135F47C 0xFFFFFFFF 0x0BF0F108 0x0135FC90) Gothic2.exe, zCParser::ParseFile, P:\dev\g2addon\release\ZenGin\_ulf\zParser.cpp, line 780
0023:0046422E (0x0082E6F0 0x0BF133B8 0x0BF0EEC9 0x00000014) Gothic2.exe, zCOption::Init()+1550 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\ZenGin\_bert\zOption.cpp, line 793+48 byte(s)
0023:00470278 (0x00000000 0x0135FC90 0x0135FC90 0x00000000) Gothic2.exe, zInitOptions()+136 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\ZenGin\_bert\zzBert.cpp, line 83
0023:00558C76 (0x0135FC98 0x00000000 0x0135FC90 0x0082E6F0) Gothic2.exe, zCEngine::Init()+150 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\ZenGin\_dieter\zEngine.cpp, line 116
0023:00426868 (0x00400000 0x01536094 0x0135FEB4 0x00317000) Gothic2.exe, CGameManager::GameInit()+152 byte(s),

@obsranayelena Can you write the error message. Maybe there is an easy fix.

@Zuben Have you tried without the zParserExtender (last line in your error trace). Depending on the version this might be integrated in Union. This looks the cause. Ninja itself is unlikely to be involved in the error because it does not modify any of the listed portions of the engine.

My gothic with ninja work fine but I had to reinstall it. After reinstalation every attempt to launch the game ends with this error if ninja is enable in mod menager. I tried disabling all other mods but it had no effect, game still crash. After disable ninja work without issue.

Startup Options:-game:GothicGame.ini
0023:0078F660 (0x0135EBF4 0xFFFFFFFF 0x0FF56BA0 0x0135F3B8) Gothic2.exe, zCParser::ParseFile, P:\dev\g2addon\release\ZenGin\_ulf\zParser.cpp, line 780
0023:0046422E (0x0082E6F0 0x10004D78 0x0FF568D1 0x00000014) Gothic2.exe, zCOption::Init()+1550 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\ZenGin\_bert\zOption.cpp, line 793+48 byte(s)
0023:00470278 (0x31E12F03 0xFFFFFFFF 0x0FF56BA0 0x00000000) Gothic2.exe, zInitOptions()+136 byte(s), P:\dev\g2addon\release\ZenGin\_bert\zzBert.cpp, line 83
0023:612B1A68 (0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000) zParserExtender.dll

help :( (i write in polish) chciałam zagrać w L'HIVER do gothic 2 gdy już miałam menu z gry nagle zrobił się czarny ekran i jakiś error ż NINJA (nie wiem czy mam coś jeszcze dodać czy co..)

Thanks for investigating! The conflict may lie with another mod. Since Ninja itself does not interfere with scripts, I doubt the conflict is with Ninja itself.

Back again, so apparently Ninja does enter in conflict with "Learning points from G1" mod. Good to know

Its a mod that disabled the scaling level point invested in G2, like for 5 STR u need 10/15/20 LP and so on.

Here another weird part, surely i tried to disable all mods mentioned, when i disable even the learning points mod, the game will crash even in menu, before entering the saved game. I would try to delede every mode and give a fresh new install even to the game and delete any residual files...

@D'artagnan What is the mod "Learning points from G1"? From your description, it sounds like that might be the most likely culprit. For example, the mod "Bonus Independent Training" is prone to create conflicts and or silently break/block progression.

Hello there! I just installed the ninja Mod with Nostalgic Edition and i have the Acces Violation error every time i train. I really enjoy these mods so far and it pains me knowing i can't play further beucase of errors. I will write here because maybe, if someone is already in this situation, might help others.

Curently i have these mods installed:

Faster sneak, Ninja, XP Bar, Union, Learning points from G1 and Nostalgic Edition

Everything worked just fine until i was trying to speak with a trainer, more specificaly, when i click "Train me" the game crashes. With every kind of trainer, that means STR/DEX, one handed and so on.

I tried to disable every mod but the Nostalgic Edition depends on Ninja mod to work. I tried to run the Vanilla game only with Ninja, same error.

And here is the error, after i close the "Acces Violation" there is a small window with
"D: MDL: zModel::Load 3DSMAXsc ASC not found: HUM_BODY_NAKED0.ASC

@Pro*GEN Yes, have a look here: https://forum.worldofplayers.de/forum/threads/1547086?p=27409399

will we have this mod for the gothic sequel

MOD - {LINK REMOVED}https://worldofgothic.de/dl/download_618.htm

Sequel_1.12f.zip - {LINK REMOVED}https://mega.nz/folder/X9VRRZpT#-k6QF-t-TI0HI3jWfCfMUA/folder/C51iFbib

@mud-freak Yes, I can use saves made before the update
Thank you!

update: I loaded up an older savefile after the (fix), it works, but it really broke my other 2 savefiles bc i had no fights, so I overwrote them, damn.

@Plazmatic I was able to fix the problem. Could you let me know if it works now? Can you use your saves again?

Thank you for your quick bug report! Without that, it would be a big disaster!

Understood. Thank you very much for your feedback.

Thank you for your effort in writing English! You are right - I see the problem with draw a melee weapon. This is most certainly related to the update. I will try to fix this by today. Until then, it's best to NOT save your game.

Is it possible to download the previous version somewhere and install it manually?

forgot to say, if I disable Ninja, this bug is still there, so I can't say that the problem is in the update, but before the update there was no problem