Sickening scam product
I have been able to play this albeit with missing some of the cutscenes which freeze. I don't have any lag anywhere, just the cutscene will suddenly freeze even though space-bar to skip is responsive. I've had crashes such as going through the portal (all white nothing happening, wheel spinning) . But these have been tolerable.
However I sprung for another $80 copy for my daughter who we just built a mid range gaming system a few months back that is very similar to mine - she's got AMD 8 core (can't recall which but a recent proc), 16GB, GTX 750Ti (mine in an intel i7 with a GTX 760). Well hers had trouble getting past the very first cutscene. Figured that out with changing the FPS to "unlimited" (why they put in a slider that breaks the game and default it to the game breaking setting I don't know!!). This gave approximately 5 minutes of gaming enjoyment only to have the game crash at the next transition load. Now, yes, I know we need to put lots and lots and lots of time into this - swapping out drivers, changing settings, checking direct x, blah blah blah and all that. But you shouldn't have to for $80 f-ing dollars and having a modern PC with no obscure components.
We're both RPG fans and this is the first foray into the Witcher series. I think it might be the last.
Anyone reading this, my advice is wait until the price comes down since this game is a dice roll whether you will be ripped off or whether you will be able to play the game regardless of how modern and up to date your platform is. The game has been out long enough that if a patch was coming to fix these issues it would have already been here. Reading this forum and google searching you can see it is hit and miss with many not being able to play.
I have been able to play this albeit with missing some of the cutscenes which freeze. I don't have any lag anywhere, just the cutscene will suddenly freeze even though space-bar to skip is responsive. I've had crashes such as going through the portal (all white nothing happening, wheel spinning) . But these have been tolerable.
However I sprung for another $80 copy for my daughter who we just built a mid range gaming system a few months back that is very similar to mine - she's got AMD 8 core (can't recall which but a recent proc), 16GB, GTX 750Ti (mine in an intel i7 with a GTX 760). Well hers had trouble getting past the very first cutscene. Figured that out with changing the FPS to "unlimited" (why they put in a slider that breaks the game and default it to the game breaking setting I don't know!!). This gave approximately 5 minutes of gaming enjoyment only to have the game crash at the next transition load. Now, yes, I know we need to put lots and lots and lots of time into this - swapping out drivers, changing settings, checking direct x, blah blah blah and all that. But you shouldn't have to for $80 f-ing dollars and having a modern PC with no obscure components.
We're both RPG fans and this is the first foray into the Witcher series. I think it might be the last.
Anyone reading this, my advice is wait until the price comes down since this game is a dice roll whether you will be ripped off or whether you will be able to play the game regardless of how modern and up to date your platform is. The game has been out long enough that if a patch was coming to fix these issues it would have already been here. Reading this forum and google searching you can see it is hit and miss with many not being able to play.
