I've been out of touch for a while. Has anyone produced a fix for the 'feature:censored/critical error' problem I have with every hoop I've tried to jump through yet?
No, but reinstalling the August 2008 distribution of DirectX and upgrading the Nvidia driver from 177 to 178 seemed to work. Thanks!LordLethris said:
I didn't bother with any of the above generic stuff.If you have the same problem I had, try this:This is a work-in-progress FAQ: http://www.thewitcher.com/forum/index.php?topic=17503.0 , do check it often as new tips are being addedQ: Problem With EAX ( game is crashing and MSS32.DLL is mentioned )A1: NEWER FIX: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mzjtojmmwln / http://rapidshare.com/files/148936599/TheWitcher1.4EE_EAX_fix_TRY3.zip.htmlQuoteBackup your files:1. The Witcher\System\mss32.dll2. The Witcher\System\binkw32.dll3. The Witcher\System\Miles\*Then replace them with these files ( mss32.dll version 7.0.23.0, binkw32.dll version 1.8.23.0 and the associated Miles folder)Apparently patch 1.4 has updated Miles Sound System libraries, but somehow MSS32.DLL was not updated hence the instability, and BINKW32.DLL is updated too since the game will freeze if only the newer MSS32.DLL is used.After this you can get SOUND ACCELERATION back on maximum setting, you can also enable EAX in game.This worked for me.LordLethris said:Try this in this order
- backup yer saved games (found in your documents area)
- uninstall the game.
- Delete the games directory
- reboot
- Install ALL the Windows XP updates. This can be done by going to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=40747, hit "start now" if you need to, then, once the new MS updater is installed, select "custom", select everything found and hit install. (please note, TW:EE does state that it needs .NET 1.1 and above to work)
- repeat Windows XP updates, intill there is nothing left in XP to patch. Note - some XP patches/updates, have MORE patches/updates, so you'll be doing many reboots and installs at this stage
- Install the latest graphic drivers for your card
- install the latest sound drivers. for XF-i users running Vista I suggest also installing alchemy As "The Witcher" is one of the listed games needing it
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- install the latest DirectX
- reboot
- DISABLE ANY SECURITY SOFTWARE, I.E. VIRUS CHECKER
- install the game
- install the latest TAGES from here (you may find the first time you install it actually removes the drivers so you'll have to install it again)
- reboot
- register the game (you have to do this every time you install the game, I dont know why, but you do)
- Run the game to see if it works
- DISABLE ANY SECURITY SOFTWARE, I.E. VIRUS CHECKER
- install TWEE patch.
- install your language Pack.
Thanks! But it didn't worked... I used CCleaner and RegScrubXP ('couse regcure didn't run under 64-bit systems) and it gave me about 70 Mb, but that gig is still far away from me...Do you (or anyone else) have an idea what to do?mardana said:
This is sad...truly sad. A promising update to such a good game and there's a fix-it forum >60 pages to install it? Simply unacceptable. I have tried every applicable suggestion I have seen in here and still no joy. It seems to me the answer would be to post the entire game including the installed patch for download. I know this would be a massive d/l but it would take less time than I have already uselessly spent trying to get this buggy patch installed. Needless to say, in the future searches for games I will avoid any company associated with this game as they have clearly demonstrated their ineptness in programming as well as customer support. Meanwhile I can still replay what I have, using higher difficulty levels and making different character choices (main challenge: shag Shanni!) and hope that someone posts the complete version or produces a working fix for the feature:censored error.
all the fixes are in the FAQwhat of those methods did you try?MegaBiteMe said:
Ok so, for those having server reset problems--I notice every time i tried downloading if I closed the tab or browser that I started the download from this ended up happening to me but, not if i kept that tab/browser open. For those who had the game working fine before the TWEE_Upgrade install but, not after--This also happened to me. Not even sure why cause I uninstalled the whole game and reinstalled the game then patch and everything worked fine the second time around. Also note that the EE version has upgraded graphics and requires more from your graphics card and system so, you may need to turn down some of the graphics options in the advanced tab of the game settings even though you didn't originally. Make sure Anti-Aliasing is off.
I can't patch the game to the EE. I have the EE patch, my language file, and the two bonus packs. I install them and get an error message saying the localized.key doesn't match. The FAQ says NOTHING about this. What am I supposed to do?
As stated, all that could possibly apply. Including: run in admin mode/safe mode w/net, every different d/l i could find, running from desktop and witcher dir. , updating .net 3.0 nothing workingLicaonKter said:
This is strange, though. Sometimes different sound streams (voice dialog, or background effect) seem to fade in and out. I have had dialogue go quiet on me in the middle of conversations. Or other times, the "open item" sound disappears (from trunks, herbs, etc.). Still other times the background bird noises get quiet and fade out. This happens irregularly, and stopping and restarting the game helps sometimes. This never happened when I completed the game before the EE update either.Any thoughts?Liam said:
Finaly got it installed!The problem seemed to be, that I had the game installed on my ext2-partition (for Ubuntu). After installing the game on NTFS the "cutscenes00.bif"-error did not occur anymore and TWEE works just fine. ;DThanks all and have fun!!
Hye people. I am having problems installing the ee patch. i have downlaoded both files for it and i start it up. It goes through fine until the modifying game files part. The patch browser doesnt respond and when i shut it down the installer says the game inst installed properly. Ihave re-installed the game along with my pc and i get the same errors. Can someone please help me with this i have just started playing and i really want to get on with the game. The load times are tiring for me and this patch should fix them for me. Thanks in advance.
OK! So, since you interupted the patching files process, you now have to completely uninstall the game. You don't need to delete any folders the game created though, they should still be there afterwards. If you didn't do the op sys maintenance procedures before then this would be a good time to do it. RE-INSTALL game then put your TWEE_Upgrade.exe and Lang Pack files into the Witcher directory usually this is C:\program files\witcher\ Next, use RUN command and run Twee_Upgrade. When it gets to that part where it seems like it's not doing anything DONT MESS WITH THE COMPUTER!!! If you have to walk away find something else to do for a couple of hours trust me it actually is doing something. Make sure you don't have any power options on like screen saver or shutdown after idle for so long etc. cause that can screw it up. Once it finishes IT WILL TELL YOU, then run the game and see if you have any problems.
This may sound stupid but i don't know in wich order i have to install the updates;I am half polish and because I understand some Polish so I wanted the polish version of the game and well my nephew/cousin was coming for xmas so he knew the perfect present.But now with the update it's not really clear in what order I have to install them all, if someone just give me the file names and the order I would be a happy man. I think i know but just to be shure.
Step 1: download the main update (about 1 GB)Step 2: download the desired language file, i.e. Polish (around 200 MB)Step 3: download the small installer batch fileStep 3: put all three files in the same folderStep 4: run the batch file and follow the on-screen instructionsIf I got that wrong, there are already comprehensive threads about this on the forums.