This is a good 'How To', thanks. You may want to add the fix for the EAX issue so that it can be used in the game again. This topic gives the how-to & here is the link for the TheWitcher1.4EE_EAX_fix. It works. 8)Edit: Added URL for the file d/l.
i let mine run over 12 hours before aborting it, i even tried the extract trick and it still ran over 7 hours.... there are some good comercial patch programs out there too bad they thought they could do better as clearly they CAN'T !!!i have given up and removed witcher from my HD.c-r-u-x said:Same here. I tried to install it for 6 hours yesterday afternoon till evening, then I aborted the patch and reinstalled The Witcher to start all over again.Now it's "modifying game files" for over 17 hours and no sign of life... what the hell??? :wall:c-r-u-xc-r-u-x said:Hey mk,I appear to be having a similar issue - and on a similarly heavy-duty rig, as well! I'm going on seven hours of 'modifying game files' now, and it's not showing any signs of finishing any time soon, either... beginning to wonder if it's actually doing anything at all! If yours ever finishes up (and works) please do post on here again and let me know! It might give me some small hope for the future...c-r-u-x said:It looks like its installing for me here, but i left the install for over 8 hours and its still modifying files.this has got to be the slowest install ive ever had, and its on a quad core, 8 gb ram, and a velociraptor hd, so none of the hardware is slow.-mk
Indeed, but I just added the note for people who downloaded it off unofficial mirrors, like gamershell or fileplanet, where the files come zipped/rared rather than as plain exe.dem0nter said:Downloading the patches in rar/zip can be risky, but the natural advantage is less data to download ^^ The risk is that the person that uploaded the rar/zip form may have set a trap in the exe file. The rar/zip will naturally have a different MD5 than the exe, but we can't see what MD5 has the exe archived inside rar/zip. I'd go for the official servers even if they have a ping over 200.
You can manually uninstall IE, but honestly I don't recommend it. There are still such underdeveloped services like Creative AutoUpdate that won't work with anything else than IE.Gspoon said:i was under the impression that you cant really uninstall IEas in you might not see it but it is still their since its hard coded
do try the .NET thingie mentioned in the first post of this thread, i can't really advise any other solutionsI'll share my experience with the patching process:I'm running Windows XP, no firewall ( not even the one included in Windows ), no active anti-virus ( I'm careful to only download from trusted sources, and i double check with ClamAV just in case )...I'm running year long installations BTW, with no virii or trojans for the last 5 yearsI've got the Windows installation up to date, got .NET 1.1/2.0 and 3.0 ( 3.5 was in BETA status AFAIK, and it was useful only in VIsta anyway )i had a game installation patched to patch 1.3, started the patch, registered, while patching i was looking around to do something while waiting when the system freezed ( i was 3:30 AM i was sleepy already )so i restarted the system, wiped the installation, reinstalled the game to version 1.0, re-registered ( it was giving me the cookie error the first time i ran REGISTER.EXE, but it worked the second time ), run the patch, re-registered about 1 more time 'cause it wanted to, and then it worked, it started to patch, i went to bed, after 5 hours i woke up to the installed game, judging from the date the folders where modified it finished at 5:52 AMtried to run the game, the game crashed, messed around with sound acceleration, the game worked, replaced some Miles sound system files, the game worked with EAX and full sound accelerationthis install also works now, w/o DVD in drive in Linux + WINE, and the fun part is that it runs with the original Miles sound system files, and not with the Windows fix...strangevolvox said:I forgot to mention earlier that i have done obvious stuff like reinstalling game. So this time i write what i did:- I have uninstalled Witcher- Deleted Witcher folder- Disabled virtual drives- installed game from Witcher DVDThen i ran TWEE_Upgrade.exe and error occured.
see first post: http://www.thewitcher.com/forum/index.php?topic=16868.0miclark said:I've downloaded the files but I'm unable to update. After I launch the Upgrade program, the installer displays the following message box:>SetupNew\setup.cpp (138)PAPPVENDORGUID:$@Windows XP Service Pack 3 (2600) I.E. 7.0.6000.16705And I get an OK button which simply removes the dialog box. Any suggestions?
Atleast you're trying, If I see the box on the shelves tomorow, I'll definitely buy it.ambient-whisper said:i ended up aborting.the files that i have are clean and complete, i even tried the uniextractor, but installation was never an issue for me. its the modification process that doesnt seem to be going anywhere.i have no antivirus apps because theres no need for them ( atleast for me ). ive been running forever without getting viruses. i only use trusted websites, and i am smart about email ( Actually i didnt even install any email accounts on this machine yet )i am now in the process of installing net all over again.i am actually curious if it could be securom that could be affecting this. i know that ever since i installed spore... acdsee, and other applications have been behaving a bit weird ( as in i cant launch them if i have this one particular software on. its odd. however, i am now on a fresh install of windows so that shouldnt be an issue because i didnt install spore here yet, but securom could have installed itself without telling me because it was in one of my dvdroms when i reinstalled windows.i will keep you all updated.what sucks is that i install 1.0 on my machine and it does it in under a few minutes. i launch it and it plays fine.installing the update works and happens within a few seconds, rjavascript:void(0);Cryegistering, confirmation about the registered game turns positive, and then it goes for the files to modify, and thats where i wait, and wait, and wait.anyway, ill get back with the net experiment.
That's no help, if you don't tell this guy that his error message means the official site downloads garbage 75 - 80 % of attempts. (Maybe worse. I made three tries for the main file, all from the Polish site were truncated. At that point, anywhere but the official crap site seemed better.)LicaonKter said:see first post: http://www.thewitcher.com/forum/index.php?topic=16868.0
http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Getting_tech_help_on_the_forumradho0 said:i have applied the patch and now when i want to play he give me an " Send or Don't Send " error......please help me :wall: