Is anyone going to take ownership of the Steam version of Witcher 2?

[gregrout]

Is anyone going to take ownership of the Steam version of Witcher 2?

I've downloaded this game at least 12 times, 150GB of data, loading and reloading this game via Steam, only to have the Witcher 2 patcher or Steam's patch scripting mangle the gaming files. I've gone through both forums, tried numerous suggestions and here I am, with a game I've NEVER been able to play. I'm hoping someone steps up and fixes this. I've heard numerous excuses, from Steam's legal department forcing upgrades to occur a certain way, to the developer refusing to provide a prepatched version of 2.0. Does the truth really matter? What shocks me, is that gaming companies (including Steam & CDProjekt)that depend on paying customers for their survival, would create such a toxic environment for legitimate customers. I am almost certain, right now there are people out there that stole this game, they are playing their pirated copies, without any problems. Somehow, this is considered acceptable for all those involved to stick to their guns and leave the paying customers high and dry.

 

[Garrison72]

I fucking hate Steam. It's a pain in the ass. I want to comment on the forums...can't do it. My internet connection fails, can't play my Steam games. Check with support, turns out, I have to create another profile just to get tech support. .... Fuck you Steam..FUCK YOU. The only reason your insipid client is on my PC is because Deus Ex and Hard Reset require it.

Gog rules. Steam sucks ass.

 

[username_3173325]

After my steam version of TW2 refused patching, i just verified game cache and redownload ~2GB. Then there was A LOT of errors, but i was simply ignoring them and game was patched successfully.

 

[eskiMoe]

My internet connection fails, can't play my Steam games.

Wut? That's just not true. At least my games work just fine in offline mode.

And Steam's great. So many awesome sales. I love it.

 

[username_2093396]

Have you tried running Steam as administrator? I mean right-click on the Steam icon, go to properties, and click "Run as administrator" on the compatibility tab. I had some issues with another game where Windows wasn't allowing Steam to install a game properly so now I always run Steam as administrator and I haven't had that kind of trouble since then. I hope it works for you too

I fucking hate Steam. It's a pain in the ass. I want to comment on the forums...can't do it. My internet connection fails, can't play my Steam games. Check with support, turns out, I have to create another profile just to get tech support. .... Fuck you Steam..FUCK YOU. The only reason your insipid client is on my PC is because Deus Ex and Hard Reset require it.

Gog rules. Steam sucks ass.

I think that they do the separate account thing so that employees can't ban people from playing their games no matter what gets said on the forums or to tech support.

 

[dragonbird]

Wut? That's just not true. At least my games work just fine in offline mode.

Yes, it's true, since 2.0.

http://en.thewitcher.com/forum/index.php?/topic/24426-patch-20-launcher-issue/

CDPR problem, not the Steam client. Bypass available pending a real solution.

My update was OK, but the OP is right, they need to get these issues fixed. Even if the majority of people are getting the updates OK, and the forum posts just represent a minority, there are far too many of them. There is some inherent compatibility issue between the Steam patching method and TW2, and the gamers are the ones who are suffering.

 

[sahara]

I've downloaded this game at least 12 times, 150GB of data, loading and reloading this game via Steam, only to have the Witcher 2 patcher or Steam's patch scripting mangle the gaming files. I've gone through both forums, tried numerous suggestions and here I am, with a game I've NEVER been able to play. I'm hoping someone steps up and fixes this. I've heard numerous excuses, from Steam's legal department forcing upgrades to occur a certain way, to the developer refusing to provide a prepatched version of 2.0. Does the truth really matter? What shocks me, is that gaming companies (including Steam & CDProjekt)that depend on paying customers for their survival, would create such a toxic environment for legitimate customers. I am almost certain, right now there are people out there that stole this game, they are playing their pirated copies, without any problems. Somehow, this is considered acceptable for all those involved to stick to their guns and leave the paying customers high and dry.

I do have a steam version of it and it patched it and installed the direct-x files than it went off the radar i thought nothing was happening so i downloaded again about 4 times actually than 5th time i thought the hell with this game it does not work.

I left running i thought if it does something than lets see i was watching movies while it was doing its own thing and i heard this bing sound and it was ready but in your case have you tried to clean your hard-driver?

Just thinking if it fixes the errors in the windows registry and so on that could work just a thought off course

If you do not have something like that may i suggest this

http://download.cnet.com/Advanced-SystemCare-Free/3000-2086_4-10407614.html?tag=contentBody;centerColumn

and for Defrag http://download.cnet.com/Smart-Defrag/3000-2094_4-10759533.html?tag=mncol;1

Try these if even that wont help than i dunno other but to try to install windows again but ONLY IF other games wont work in your computer if they work than there is no reason for this.

Hopefully at least one of these things will work

 

[DarkSaber2k]

Same here, was playing fine until a couple of days ago, now redownloaded 3 times in 2 days, still stuck in a "Installed game is invalid" patch loop. Hell, I even had it working LAST NIGHT after much effort, but today it's back in the loop I go.

 

[gregrout]

I've redownloaded from scratch, verified the data files (NEVER Launched the game), made a backup from that to avoid all the "re-downloading". I've done all the run as admin, from right click menu and the file properties, changed all the patches in the steam cache to "run as admin". I've even tried running the patches manually with Steam not running. Renamed the arena.dzip that someone suggested. I've done it all. I have managed to get this game to launch. I get a connection error in yellow on the launcher Where the 2.0 patch is usually advertised for those that register (so that's still broken), the game is at least playable now. I basically, ran task manager and nuked the DXSETUP.EXE for DirectX each time it popped up and manualy closed the witcher launcher between patches. For some reason, Steam has added 7 steps to the install, it's direct X, patch 1.30, direct X again, then 1.35, direct X and then patch 2.0. I get the incomplete error on the first patch (I watched the file running from task manager). The 1.35 patch seems like it always passes. I couldn't tell you what I did to make it work, but I can tell you that everytime I ran the game, Steam tried to install direct X. I nuked these from the task manager, rinsed and repeated until steam stopped trying to patch the game. As for offline play on Steam, every game is flagged. If there is any pending updates for the game, it cannot be played offline. If you want to play any Steam game offline, you have to run it first, do all the updates, run it once more and then go into offline play. It's a great game, it's a real crime that so many Steam players are giving up on it in frustration.

 

[dragonbird]

As for offline play on Steam, every game is flagged. If there is any pending updates for the game, it cannot be played offline. If you want to play any Steam game offline, you have to run it first, do all the updates, run it once more and then go into offline play. It's a great game, it's a real crime that so many Steam players are giving up on it in frustration.

I was one of the lucky ones who managed to do the 2.0 update without any issues, and I've been playing on 2.0 since around 48 hours after it came out. I've been offline at Steam ever since, mainly out of terror that it will suddenly decide to do another update if I go online. The "offline mode" issue has nothing to do with the Steam client, or with Steam's own Offline Mode, it's a bug in the TW2 launcher, and it's a CDPR issue. It just causes more problems for Steam customers than others. There is a simple workround for non-Steam users, a more-complicated one for Steam users.

 

[DarkSaber2k]

Steams finally taken ownership of the patching fiasco, this thread of their forum has an official response:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2168659

Quoted here:
"Taylor Sherman
Valve
Join Date: Feb 2003
Reputation: 251
Posts: 3,186

Hi All,Sorry for the confusion. There are two things happening simultaneously: the game is getting converted to our new download system, and it is also getting patched.

The new download system will help ensure that patches for games like The Witcher 2 are as small as possible in the future.

Unfortunately, the conversion process currently has the same issue as the old download system (large files that change are re-downloaded completely), so this update is not getting applied as efficiently for people who already had the game installed. We had hoped to iron out this issue before switching the game to the new system, however things didn't work out that way. The self-patching system previously used by the game was not available for this update, so we decided that if users must suffer through another large update, we would also get it converted over to the new download system so that that this would be the last time.

Taylor "

 

[dragonbird]

Thanks for the heads-up. I think I'll wander across to Steam to see what the reaction was, and if the pitchforks are still out.

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Oh, sheesh. The fix involves an 8GB download? 12 hours for me.
That guy had better be wearing some good armour.
I'm glad I saw this before running Steam Client. I think I'm going so far offline that I'm off the field until I see what happens next, and whether this works or not.

 

[blakeocity]

Just downloaded 9GB for the 'conversion'.

Game wouldn't open so I decide to verify the game integrity like usual with steam, 447 files failed to validate.
Back to downloading the actual converted files (I hope ), all 14GB of them.

I don't understand how you can fuck that up. Why wouldn't Valve check that it worked before release.

 

[dragonbird]

Has there been any indication of what this "patch" was that was supposed to be included with the download?

This is ridiculous. I didn't have any problems with 2.0, but my trust in the Valve/CDPR combination is now so low that there's no way I'm going online to pick it up.

I'd buy a second copy, if not for the fact that I don't like rewarding incompetence.

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Well, I finally did the update. And it worked first time. The only "error" was the initial message that said "this may take a few minutes". I guess 10 hours *is* a few minutes, but I was expecting it anyway.

The Launcher has been updated. With any luck, it may also have fixed the offline mode issue (haven't tried it yet).