Swords, Raven armor, coins, story is adjusted to events/choices from first Witcher
. Worked perfectly for me. Well worth it to finish Witcher 1 before Witcher 2 because you will be more familiar with events preceding your journey.
Witcher 2
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Swords, Raven armor, coins, story is adjusted to events/choices from first Witcher
. Worked perfectly for me. Well worth it to finish Witcher 1 before Witcher 2 because you will be more familiar with events preceding your journey.
Anyone have a safe link for the GOG witcher2.exe?
Hmm, I don't get how drm would slow down the game at all. It's hard to tell on the blurry video but it looks like he loads drm one first, renames an exe, then runs non drm one. If that's the case then it's possible all the data of that same level he plays is cached, and hence why it loads and runs smoother the second time through no? I'd be curious to see the load order reversed.
Sigfried1977
Legend
I think I got a speed boost out of it as well, but I haven't confirmed it in a scientific way as of yet. Is Fraps free? Speed boost or not, 6 seconds on start up vs nearly a minute is definitely no placebo effect. (and the PC was turned off before I started the game) Supposedly the upcoming patch due this week is going to fix the issue as well.
Another small tip: if it takes an eternity to load the game's menu screens, try deleting save files. The game's way of saving your game is a little excessive, not to mention completely out of control. My save folder was almost 3 gigabytes large.
Another small tip: if it takes an eternity to load the game's menu screens, try deleting save files. The game's way of saving your game is a little excessive, not to mention completely out of control. My save folder was almost 3 gigabytes large.
The load times alone are worth it, but I'm getting smoother frame rates now too. Way to stick it to your customers, Atari.
I did some comparison between high setting and ultra setting, and I found that on my system only ubersampling has a serious impact on performance. Basically, in both high setting and ultra setting w/o ubersampling, it's generally able to maintain around 45 fps. However, after enabling ubersampling it's down to 11 ~ 12 FPS. This is probably reasonable because it seems that ubersampling renders the scene 4 times (probably with slightly different parameters), not too different from a 4X SSAA.
Therefore, ubersampling helps the dithered shadow problem, but doesn't completely eliminate it. For now I think ubersampling does not worth the loss of performance.
I plan to play the game again, maybe on hard difficulty, after the promised patch. I hope that I can do the troll trouble DLC and maybe go for a different storyline.
Therefore, ubersampling helps the dithered shadow problem, but doesn't completely eliminate it. For now I think ubersampling does not worth the loss of performance.
I plan to play the game again, maybe on hard difficulty, after the promised patch. I hope that I can do the troll trouble DLC and maybe go for a different storyline.
the game has been harcoded to 16:9
Amazing even in this day and age that hard coding applications exist!
Happily I got the game working Friday afternoon just in time for the weekend
Apart from the impossibility to actually play it at first, I must say I'm quite delighted by the performance and lack of any serious bug (so far and in my experience obviously). With the latest nVidia beta drivers it runs at 35-45 fps most of the time with High Settings at 1680x1050 on my GTX 285. Game looks gorgeous bordering on drool-inducing in some parts
I'm still very early on in the game, in Flotsam almost ready to fight the Kayran (I've tried not to read any spoilers in the previous page) but I want to finish all the sidequests before I do that. After you get the hang of it, combat is not so ridiculously hard but at the same time is quite challenging and technical , what more could I ask for? There's a certain battle in the Prologue that is going to make sure you know how to fight when you finish it. Even if it takes 40 trials
So far I'm quite pleased with this game.
Apart from the impossibility to actually play it at first, I must say I'm quite delighted by the performance and lack of any serious bug (so far and in my experience obviously). With the latest nVidia beta drivers it runs at 35-45 fps most of the time with High Settings at 1680x1050 on my GTX 285. Game looks gorgeous bordering on drool-inducing in some parts
I'm still very early on in the game, in Flotsam almost ready to fight the Kayran (I've tried not to read any spoilers in the previous page) but I want to finish all the sidequests before I do that. After you get the hang of it, combat is not so ridiculously hard but at the same time is quite challenging and technical , what more could I ask for? There's a certain battle in the Prologue that is going to make sure you know how to fight when you finish it. Even if it takes 40 trials
So far I'm quite pleased with this game.
I bet I tear through that monastery fight with ease on my 2nd playthrough. The key with multiple enemies is that back attacks do 2x damage (you'll notice in the sword skill tree there's one skill that reduces this to 150% and then 100%), so you can't let yourself be surrounded. Quen is great for this because it knocks enemies back when it's upgraded to spread its damage. And I've spend the 2 talent points on reducing the damage I take from rear attacks.
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
Legend
Patch is due to go live this evening (Poland time):
RenegadeRocks
Legend
Was just playing the old demo of Witcher 1 and now I get why the whole PC world is crazy about Witcher ! The demo is, even though old now, absolutely amazing ! The world is so beautiful ! Though, I never like RPGs, the demo sucked me in immediately !!!! If an RPG demo can accomplish that, it has to be special !......................and here I was thinking all these years that it was a depressing tale !
I am getting Witcher 1 tonight ! Too bad I missed it when GOG was offerring Witcher 1 for $5 !
EDIT: Any chance of Witcher 2 getting a demo?
The world is so beautiful ! Though, I never like RPGs, the demo sucked me in immediately !!!! If an RPG demo can accomplish that, it has to be special !......................and here I was thinking all these years that it was a depressing tale !I am getting Witcher 1 tonight ! Too bad I missed it when GOG was offerring Witcher 1 for $5 !
EDIT: Any chance of Witcher 2 getting a demo?
For anyone not playing game yet worth watching ING video reviews:
http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/05/20/the-witcher-2-impressions?objectid=14345201
good commentary - no major spoilers (20 minutes:smile
http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/05/1...f-kings-gameplay-commentary?objectid=14345201
review
http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/05/24/the-witcher-2-video-review?objectid=14345201
And yes, they talk about learning curve and why is it done this way ... I love it myself because I always read everything from journals, codexes, etc.
Enjoy!
http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/05/20/the-witcher-2-impressions?objectid=14345201
good commentary - no major spoilers (20 minutes:smile
http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/05/1...f-kings-gameplay-commentary?objectid=14345201
review
http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/05/24/the-witcher-2-video-review?objectid=14345201
And yes, they talk about learning curve and why is it done this way ... I love it myself because I always read everything from journals, codexes, etc.
Enjoy!
Sigfried1977
Legend
I finished TW2 yesterday evening, and what a delightful experience it was. I actually liked the ending even though it felt a bit rushed. It was a bit of an excessive info dump and probably could have been handled in a more elegant way, but at least it answered almost if not all the questions raised over the course of the 30 or so hours it took me to finish the game (so much for too short of a game). Certainly no worse than the endings in other contemporary rpgs (linear jrpgs are of course an exception)
After having sorted out the driver related issues it was smooth sailing all the way to the end too. No crashes, no bugs, nothing.
After having sorted out the driver related issues it was smooth sailing all the way to the end too. No crashes, no bugs, nothing.
Was just playing the old demo of Witcher 1 and now I get why the whole PC world is crazy about Witcher ! The demo is, even though old now, absolutely amazing !
I am getting Witcher 1 tonight ! Too bad I missed it when GOG was offerring Witcher 1 for $5 !
EDIT: Any chance of Witcher 2 getting a demo?
In fact I am replaying Witcher 1 right now and enjoying the hell out of it. I even got my old boss at work to buy it. Wonder if he is enjoying the experience. You won't be disappointed that is all I can say with the Witcher series
I also am one who likes a difficult game that has a learning curve, a game that requires a brain especially in an RPG as complicated and complex as this. I don't want it to be an easy experience. I read every scroll and codex etc that is available in these kind of games. It just makes it feel a more worthwhile experience and it never ceases to amaze me how much depth there is in these games. CD Projekt is just amazing.
That said I am rather amazed that Atari would release the game out the door with so many issues. It is always more tough to fight fires with production released code than it is to just get it all sorted out in the first place and then release it. The end user is happy, the developers feel the job is done and they don't have to spend long hours and working over time trying to put out production fires. I just never understand that mentality in software development. How hard can it be? That said I am quite excited about the patch 1.1 and apparently another subsequent patch they are working on en route next week. I just hope they got 16:10 support in there somewhere by the time I actually get around to firing up and playing the game in earnest.
Refreshment
Regular
Don't agree with their sentiments on this one
So now it’s desirable to have every game spoon fed the user like an infant? Sometimes it’s good to figure stuff by oneself I think. The manual is quickly available in the menu, guess they need to exaggerate the matter a bit to have some material to work after all.I welcome the fact that this time a game starts a bit on the hard side instead of super easy pointless exercise of empowering the user. Think this game is open to more real and valuable criticism.
Yes, really weird, tooltips flashed fast and the text was too small, can't see how that got past the testing department. That's one of the reasons i had a look at the manual, it's a really qucik read.
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