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Witcher 2

That is absolutely sick! (In a cool way) I wish I also have that gaming merchandise. BTW, some convention in our place let me play Witcher 2 and I must say it is a very awesome and cool game!
 
Cool that it supports a gamepad, but that's not for me. I avoid them like the plague on the PC for a game like this -- even console ports like Darksiders, because they're so freaking unbelievable slow compared to a mouse when it comes to controlling the camera.

Well, the gamepad support explains why this game only has strong and normal attack. :S Left mouse... Right mouse... Bleh! 🙁

I prefer the older method, which was a choice of fight styles. Dexterity, strength, and group attack.

On a plus side, this game looks great and the engine is a definite improvement on the older heavily modified Bioware engine. I hold this and the Witcher Enhanced as some of the best looking games out there.

I'm not that far in, but so far i like it. I'll know more when I get some free time, if this holds up to the original Witcher for me.
 
I knew it was a long shot but I want to play The Witcher 2 one day or another anyway, so I tried it on a late 2008 MacBook Alu.

I cant run it even on lowest settings - Graphic card is the bottleneck. The 2,4Ghz core 2 duo is actually enough to run it on medium, but onboard Graph card makes it tick 8-10 FPS when entering the game :/

I think I'll be buying the 21" IMac - Anyone know if it is worth getting the i7 core upgrade with multithreading capabilty when only using it for gaming?
 
Does anyone know if they will release a MAC OSX version a little later on?

I'm iching to buy it but if they will release in a few months a MAC version I'll wait.

This happened with Dragon Age Origins. I purchased the PC version then a few months later they released the MAC version 😡

Thanks,
Rob
 
robbo007 said:
Does anyone know if they will release a MAC OSX version a little later on?

I'm iching to buy it but if they will release in a few months a MAC version I'll wait.

This happened with Dragon Age Origins. I purchased the PC version then a few months later they released the MAC version 😡

Thanks,
Rob
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Not sure, but considering the poor optimization on the windows side, I can only see it running quite terrible on a Mac port..
 
AH88 said:
Sorry for the delay. 🙂
Not sure if there's a limit to how many pics I can add in one post but I'll just put a few and then link to the album.
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Next time, scale down those pics a bit, ok? 😉

Been there, done that. It (the original) was above average, but invisible fences no likey.
 
I thought that I could run it smoothly with all high setting. man, I was wrong. this game seems to demand more power than crysis 2. everything sets high. it is only 30fps on my laptop (I test two laptops (PC, Mac)). of course, my 2009 macbook pro is very frustrated to run it due to graphic card. my sony Vaio FW (with NVIDIA GT 425M 1GB) even barely run little over 30fps. by the way, I can run crysis 2 with high setting around 40-59fps. I uninstalled 3D stuff from NVIDIA driver setting. it's still not improved. I didn't know that TW2 demands so much power. or something is really wrong. or only very high end rig can run it without problem. or this game is only for desktop PC. I never have this problem at all. even Metro 2033, which is one of very power demanding games, and used for bench mark todays, can run over 30fps in high setting. when I red steam forum, many people have problems like me. but don't get me wrong. this game is great, graphic detail is awesome, characters are very active. I love it.
 
Nvidia users please be aware the game has some rather serious issues if you have the latest 270 driver, especially if you installed the 3D Vision drivers.

The beta driver 275 work somewhat better, install them without the 3D Vision options and you will see a big performance boost.

Nvidia are working on a major hotfix that will make it into the next WHQL driver version.



With the 270 drivers (3d drivers installed but not enabled) I was getting sub 10fps in the prison section. Utterly terrible and low, medium, high settings made no difference.

With 275 beta driversv(3D vision driver not installed) I am now running at High Settings with AA turned off and getting 30-45 FPS.
 
I'm not doing the 3D thing, I'm sure that would kill the performance on my GTX275.

From what little I've played, the game runs fine between the mid 30s to the mid 40s. I chose the high option when installing the game. I figured Ultra was for Direct X 11.

On this topic, I know they tailored this game for a console in mind, but the lack of graphic settings in the menu is a bit disappointing, unless I missed an advanced option? I'm not even sure where to bring back up the graphic options from the desktop, that the game first presented me when I was installing it.

This game looks so much better than the Enhanced, as in everything is a super detailed, where as Enhanced was a mixe bag of amazing with bleh -- but no where on the scale of Dragon Age, which was mostly bleh.

Anyways, I stil haven't played this past the first night and just testing FRAPS. I've mostly just been listening to the music. 😱 Speaking of which, some of it I really like, but was hoping for more. The first Witcher's included CD had 29 songs, vs the 14 of of this new one. I guess it's just a shorter game.
 
JackAxe said:
On this topic, I know they tailored this game for a console in mind, but the lack of graphic settings in the menu is a bit disappointing, unless I missed an advanced option?
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Graphics settings are in the game launcher. That's also where you change your controls, and download DLC.

Anyways, I stil haven't played this past the first night and just testing FRAPS. I've mostly just been listening to the music. 😱 Speaking of which, some of it I really like, but was hoping for more. The first Witcher's included CD had 29 songs, vs the 14 of of this new one. I guess it's just a shorter game.
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I wouldn't take the soundtrack length as an indicator of game length. From what I've heard it's just as long as the first. It's also supposed to have better replayability--there's a big story branch in Act II.
 
Cougarcat said:
Graphics settings are in the game launcher. That's also where you change your controls, and download DLC.
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That's what I figured, that I would have to leave the game completely to change the settings, since I didn't see any advanced options.

The first Witcher wasn't great on how it handled graphic options either. I had to quit to the main menu to adjust them, but at least I didn't have to do a complete restart.


I wouldn't take the soundtrack length as an indicator of game length. From what I've heard it's just as long as the first. It's also supposed to have better replayability--there's a big story branch in Act II.
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Hopefully.

I've read that the game is better at keeping pace, so it doesn't take as long as the first. Some are saying about 40 hours, but when I read that, I know that it generally takes me way longer and I started the game on hard, so I doubt I'd be able to complete it in that time.

I put in well over 100 hours on the first one, more than any other game in recent years. Only Dragon Age: Origins has came close.

Anyways, speaking of replayability, I read this one has gray areas like the first, which is awesome, so now i just need to play it instead of doing the forum thing. 😱
 
so far in my experience, I am pretty sure that even new macbook pro (more than 15 inch models) will suffer from fps, performance. so unfortunately, even though you have 6490M(?) or 6750M AMD GPU, you can't set it high. no way. it's very sad due to poor optimization. lower setting is your only option. or just try imac or PC desktop or PC gaming laptop. iMac will suffer as well because it doesn't have desktop version of GPU. I can't believe that Apple still use mobile GPU for imac. it's totally shame. you know. imac is not freaking laptop. it is deserved to have powerful desktop GPU. anyway, unfortunately, mac users can't enjoy this game much. this is the first time I've ever experienced.

does somebody expect mac version of game? forget it. they won't make any of it. it doesn't make any profit as I always said before. plus, it's only PC game even though they have a plan to make console version later. but we don't know whether they will or not.
 
I'm really enjoying the game overall. I just finished the first Witcher on Saturday and was able to continue on right after. I think they could have done a little better with the crafting and I wish they had made a junk category for items too. But overall those are minor complaints in the grand scheme. I did have to remove my 3D vision drivers despite actually owning the 3D vision equipment and monitor... but the game is gorgeous anyway.
 
I just found something really bad on this game optimization. it definitely requires 1GB video memory (dedicated). it uses huge GPU power unbelievably. this case is not normal for most gaming make. even patch is delayed. I don't even expect that patch will fix dramatically what we have issues on. patch is only 16MB. so what do I expect? normally, even lower end PC is supposed to run it with lower setting just like other games. I just stopped playing until they (CD projekt) will fix it significantly even I have 22-30fps with high setting on my laptop. usually, it is supposed to be around 60fps. I can run Crysis 2 60fps high setting. it's pathetic that they claimed it is PC port. **** you.
 
if some of you bought it from steam, it is very annoying today. CD projekt released patch 1.1 today. it is only 16MB. but for some odd reasons, steam version owner force to download almost the whole game which is 9.4GB. patch is just inside of game files. but because each one is too big? steam can't do prefer downloading? what about retail version? is it the same? I doubt. so there will be another bandwidth waste for the whole day. this is a big problem. remember. CD projekt will release patch periodically. but if this is like, I deny to play this ****. why patch should be so big, and inefficient installation. we don't want to download the ****ing whole files for 16MB. even what if this patch won't do anything right? the game is great. but the way they try to resolve is totally ancient time. it is not 1990s which most game just less than 5GB that days.

anyway, I made a decision to uninstall steam version, and will install retail version tonight. I don't want to waste my time for damn downloading. it's lucky that I have both versions.🙂
 
I have been playing witcher 2 on my new imac 27 inch with the radeon hd 6970m 2gb. I can play at full resolution with steady 30-40 fps but I turned off ubersampling (No brainer here), blur and AA all other settings are ultra. I downloaded the ati hotfix and was able to add SSAO while maintaining 30-40 fps. There is another patch that is now released from CDProjek and apparently you should see boosts of up to 30%. Depending on where you got your game from (steam retail etc) it can vary as the DRM was causing FPS to be slow.

I recommend updating your drivers from AMD to 11.b and downloading the patch 1.1 for witcher 2. You should see some increase. Apparently people who were only able to run at med settings can now run high. Good luck!
 
I really REALLY want to play this game, but i have a 21.5" iMac (new, 2011 model) and have no idea if it will play well. i dont want to do a bootcamp install and buy this game and have it not run well.
 
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