Witcher 2
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Ambient and location design is better in the Witcher 1. Levels are more open and have less chocke points that CDprojekt used to acomodate the streaming system. Speaking as personal preference, i like the subbdued colors in the first since they match the tone of the game better.Sorry for a little OT here, but I was playing the Witcher 1 demo and its amazing! Right now I just out drunk a guy and am running/swaying in the woods trying to find the crypt
The game is beautiful, btw,(and I ma getting 200fps in indoors !) :
http://i51.tinypic.com/n2l7xl.jpg
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Well the point is i share the same thoughts, Witcher 1 is a very nice looking game, except for the opening act at the Wichers camp, that looks below the game visual standar.
Just finished the game, after 44 hours of good time. Excellent fun, even though it feels that I made some stupid choices and the whole kingdom ended up in a mess.It's refreshing to have a game where your decisions aren't so black and white. There were many situations where I just had stop and pause and think what I want to do.
Techically everything worked fine. Only bigger problem was the 9GB Steam update which robbed me of playing the game for one evening.
Highly recommended!
Compared to the first Witcher, I think the game took a step backwards in alchemy and character development. I liked the whole bronze / silver thing in the first game and also the alchemy had more meaning in it. It would be interesting to get some statistics out of the Witcher 2, like how many players decided to take the alchemy path.
Techically everything worked fine. Only bigger problem was the 9GB Steam update which robbed me of playing the game for one evening.
Highly recommended!
Compared to the first Witcher, I think the game took a step backwards in alchemy and character development. I liked the whole bronze / silver thing in the first game and also the alchemy had more meaning in it. It would be interesting to get some statistics out of the Witcher 2, like how many players decided to take the alchemy path.
I could not agree more. I have been replaying the game myself and have been in Chapter 2 in the swamp a lot now. I am grinding a bit and gaining XP by combatting every monster I see in my path and just taking my sweet time completing all the side quests. I just love the atmosphere of the game especially in the swamp area. I love the design of Vizima too both the outskirts and the city gates interior. I get a similar feel to the set design for the village of Bree in the LOTR first movie when it was all rainy and dark and the Hobbits and Aragorn first meet. Awesome stuff! Can't love this game enough!
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There's a lot of small atmosphere touches in the first one that didn't make the cut in the sequel. Remember that to attack something, the user mouses over the object it wishes to hack and the attack icon appears. This made a hughe deal of difference because devs controlled what characters were allowed to be killed. Here Geralt takes swings and the sword just passes throught a NPC like nothing happened.
With this in mind, in the Witcher 1 the ilusion of an ecosystem was more apparent. In a town for example, you could kill almost anyone. People start cowarding running away and calling guards, which came in patrols to attack Geralt. At night guards patrol with tourches lighting bornfires and bands of thieves appeared, when some low life assaulted somebody sometimes a near by citizen would come to its aid, if guards were around the area they pursued the assailants. Even, when creatures attacked at night the dogs started to bark at their pressence, people runed in panic and guards tried to eliminated the menace. There was a lot more wild life populating the area, in the sequel i just see rats and crows.
In part 2 only thing as cool as the above paragraph can be seen if you walk around guards with a sword unsheathed, guys get nervous as hell and if the weapon is not concealed fast enough a fight might be started. Kill the guards and some moments later a sequence is played with a patrol asking Geralt for a bribe or face the consequences, consequences being instant death and gameover
For those of you with older cards, I highly suggest disabling SSAO lighting. I tweaked around with the game for quite some time and figured that was the biggest performance hit for my system. Plus ubersampling is murderous on older cards.
Unfortunately, the mobo bit the dust, yesterday. Total loss of functionality with almost all inputs, safe from the keyboard PS2 port. That includes the USB's, even my onboard LAN. What sucks the most is I can't find a decent motherboard for my current processor, that hasn't long since been discontinued. LGA 775 sockets were a pain, even when they were topical. Ah, well. I was in the market to do a complete system overhaul, anyway. This just gives me less of an excuse to procrastinate.
It's really awful timing, though. I just began the quest "Indecent Proposal" and the town and surrounding wooded areas look absolutely stunning. I already miss playing it.
Unfortunately, the mobo bit the dust, yesterday. Total loss of functionality with almost all inputs, safe from the keyboard PS2 port. That includes the USB's, even my onboard LAN. What sucks the most is I can't find a decent motherboard for my current processor, that hasn't long since been discontinued. LGA 775 sockets were a pain, even when they were topical. Ah, well. I was in the market to do a complete system overhaul, anyway. This just gives me less of an excuse to procrastinate.
It's really awful timing, though. I just began the quest "Indecent Proposal" and the town and surrounding wooded areas look absolutely stunning. I already miss playing it.
Had my eye on a Bloomfield, but kept Sandy Bridge in mind. I was actually going to start a thread about the differences between the two models and which would better suit me. My rig is strictly for gaming purposes and those Sandy Bridges come highly recommended by a friend of mine who swears by that line. It's been a while since I've been CPU shopping, though, so I'm not exactly keen on what I should be looking for in the newer models. Things have changed a lot since the old Core 2's.
Sandy Bridge ftw for you then. I would go Sandy Bridge if I could but that means a new mobo, losing 2 sticks of ram, and a new cpu. Instead I am going the 990x route because I am getting it at a special price and it will be considerably cheaper than migrating to Sandy Bridge.
I'll make it easy for you as I run two identical sandy bridge machines at home to do extensive video rendering, although I use one as a gaming machine downstairs as well. I just built the second one a few days ago and made it identical spec to my first as I was so happy with it:
Intel 2600k cpu, $314
Asus p8p67 pro mobo 1502 bios, $179
8gb Corsair Vengeance 1.5v 1600mhz ram (black casing), $99
Cooler Master V8 cpu cooler, $50
Use your old case, video card, hdd, etc with that. In the bios chose advanced and set the clock multiplier at 43 (4.3ghz) and downclock the ram a bit to 1333Mhz speed. So for $642 + tax you now have a screaming fast machine that will run at 4.3ghz 24/7. Mine render pretty much non stop and the cpu runs at ~60 Celsius at full load, and voltage is at a low 1.28. I have run these machines at 4.8ghz as well and they were fine but temps and voltages really climbed, so I've left them at 4.3ghz. Note, it's very important to use 1.5v ram! I had issues with 1.65v ram on these machines.
For a speed reference I did a video encode test, my old stock i7-920 took ~18 minutes to do the encode, this new sandy bridge machine took ~6 minutes. I've been using both of my sandy bridge machines non stop and they have been rock solid, they are identical save for my office version having 16gb of ram. Very happy with these machines,
Dresden are you in the u.s ?
$15
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Desktop...5FNY/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1306876333&sr=8-8
any good to you?
newegg has 75 lga775 boards from $39
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N=100007627 600007879&IsNodeId=1&name=LGA 775
$15
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Desktop...5FNY/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1306876333&sr=8-8
any good to you?
newegg has 75 lga775 boards from $39
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N=100007627 600007879&IsNodeId=1&name=LGA 775
DuckThor Evil
Legend
Finally decided that it's a good time to start playing this, but it seems I'm loading some friggin huge update from Steam at a piss poor rate...WTF is this? It started at decent speed, but now I'm about 10-15% of my connection limit.
If I want to use my Witcher 1 save, do I have to have the game installed or will the save file be enough? and if so, is there a specific location for where it needs to be. Just noticed I have over 4GB of Witcher 1 save files lol.
If I want to use my Witcher 1 save, do I have to have the game installed or will the save file be enough? and if so, is there a specific location for where it needs to be. Just noticed I have over 4GB of Witcher 1 save files lol.
DuckThor Evil
Legend
Lol so in order to get a 14MB patch I have to download 9GB, wow I got no words for that... Is this normal for Steam updates?
It wouldn't even piss me of this much, if I was getting decent download speed, but now it's taking forever.
Does the patch finally have invert as an option?
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I found out about the save file, need to be in right folder, but doesn't require the game being installed.
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yes, it has invert and many fixes + includes DLC.
Everyone keeps harping about how awesome the SB i7's are, so I went ahead and ordered the one you mentioned. Plus, an Asus mobo, same line different model:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115070
^ Processor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131714
^ Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220539
^RAM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118054
^Aftermarket CPU fan
I'm sticking with my stock GTX 260, until they drop the prices on some of the new 5 series, and HDD's. I can't wait! Thanks for the advice!
Sweet...although I'm not sure about the ram you ordered as it's 1.65v. I had tried two different sets of 1.65v ram on my machines and would occasionally get blue screens, then after some googling I read that one should stick with 1.5v ram for sandy bridge. So I'd change the ram if you could. This is the exact ram I'm using:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...m_re=corsair_vengeance-_-20-233-144-_-Product
...and I have it downclocked to 1333mhz since I'm heavily overclocking both machines. I've read that some guys downclock their 1.65v ram to 1.55 or 1.5 to make them work so you could try that, but since you are ordereding new I'd just get 1.5v ram from the get-go.
