I installed the game and immediately patched it to v1.2. The game started okay and I played through the introduction. After Leo's cremation, when I parted ways with Triss, the game crashed to the desktop. I believe it was attempting to load Vizima. When I tried to relaunch the game, it complained [pre]Please insert original DVD of "The Witcher"! ***[/pre]After searching, I came across a couple of suggestions. The first was http://forums.eu.atari.com/showpost.php?p=1562810&postcount=5. This had no effect. The second was http://forums.eu.atari.com/showpost.php?p=1645710&postcount=19. Interestingly this worked exactly once but loading the most recent save game crashed. All subsequent attempts failed.I did some more research and was advised to try installing an update to Tages however the version on the disk seems to already be the latest (5.5.3.1). I tried anyways but uninstalling and re-installing it had no effect.This is a 2GB Core 2 Duo 6300 machine running Windows XP Pro with an NVidia 7900 GS running the latest 169.21 drivers.There is no emulation software running. Nor is there anti-virus software.If this *is* due to the copy protection software, I'm pretty unimpressed. You're only penalizing your paying customers. It'll be pretty galling if I have to hunt down and install some crack just to get the game working.Other observations: despite claims to the contrary, the 1.2 patch didn't seem to appreciably speed up save-game loading. Compared to the demo, (which I play to completion and uninstalled), loading is quite slow. Also, during the introduction when Geralt is being carried back to Kaer Morhen, the camera pans the castle from a distance up behind a rocky outcrop. I found that the panning was jerky; one could sense the periodic redrawing of the scene. My graphics card shouldn't have had problems with that scene should it?Please supply a fix soon as I won't be able to play this game after the holidays.Thank you,Keith
Create a Dxdiag logAn msinfo32 log and a report save as HTML using this tool System Information for WindowsExplain your problem and put your nickPut all that in an email and send it to the adress in my signature !bughunter said:
just make sure you pass your concerns on to the correct coporate entity:the copy protection scheme is entirely Atari's decision (the publisher), and has nothing to do with the developer (CDProjekt).
Sometimes i don't even know why companies bother with copy protection. It takes hackers about a week to crack it, and (like the problems i initially had) if you buy something legally and it doesn't work because of the copy protection, you are often forced to use cracks to get past it, or not play.So either you have to crack it anyway, or just not play something you paid for.. its absurd.
I have an odd bug in that I have no spoken dialog for a couple of the main NPCs the Dwarf Zoltan & the Elf Yaevinn. I have the subtitles so it's no biggie, but neither of them has spoken English dialog at all whenever I encounter them. Anyone else have this/ Also the game seems far more crashy since the 1.2 patch than before. I'm running into Nvidia graphics card crashes more frequently (every few hours) and I'm all up to date with the drivers etc (Vista Home Premium).
Hi guys,I don't know if this helps, but I am now able to play the game. I was crashing every 5 mins in the tutorial. None of the fixes here, UAC, BCDEDIT etc. worked at all.Then I switched to playing in windowed mode. In a 1024 x 768 window I was able to play with all settings maxed and no crashes.I then tried 1152 x 864 and that worked too. It was not necessary to use new drivers or BCDEDIT or anything. I just ran the game in windowed mode.Oddly, it crashed at lower resolutions with lower detail settings in full screen mode. I wonder if there is something different about their code for full screen mode.?So that's my solution.Patch 1.2 installedWindows Vista Ultimate4GB RamnVidia GeForce 7600Based on my limited testing I think that the resolution and settings are immaterial. It's something to do with the full screen mode.
Getting desparate! The game refuses to install giving me an error msg.: "An error {5001: 0xffex75} has occured while running the setup. I run on a fully-updated version of MS XP Home Edition and have installed forceware 169.2 for my nVidia 8500GT. Have tried a suggestion to delete the Installshield files, reboot and install but didn't work. Three emails to Atari tech support in two days have yielded no response whatsoever. This is the first time a game (and I have loaded numerous Atari games to date) has absolutely refused to even load. And I have scrubbed my registry files and defragged within the week as well. Any reasonable suggestions for a solution here? Or should I give up as others have and try to sell the game on ebay?
I disabled my firewall, anti-spyware and antivirus programs before installation. No change. But I have no idea how to run a memory test with memtest86. PC software problem-solving is not my area of expertise. And if you can direct me how to perform this test, what should I be looking for? Thank you.
Ok, when im playing the game and in cutscenes Garlet and some other charachters have like spikes coming out of there bodies. When i looked closer it looked like the some of the graphics on there are just being expanded outlike for example leos ebrows were like strectched like a foot away from his bodyso could any one help me solve this little problem of mine
I did start the game now for fourth time and again i encountered black graphics in Vizima trade center even while i expanded my DDR memory from 1 to 3 Mb Strange phenomena because when i get into a house its getting normal Grapics in other area are normal And i realy did loot Maakal stone from the beginnning etc and inserted all stones at last moment What kind of bug is this?Nvidia 8600 gt latest driver3Mb ram 667 MhzAthlon AMD 3800+ dual coreDirect x 9.0cWindows XP SP 2Anyone?
Yes it worked!!! I had alchool 120% and DT 3.41(?) and when I desperatly (because I thought it was because of the dvd writter) try to remove them, the game ran! I was starting to fall in dispair because I was reading all sorts of things in the web about this error, but, fortunately and for my good surprise, the game ran.Thanks for the help.PS: Sorry I take so long. Its because after I tasted a little of the game, I coulnd't stop ;DMobidoy said:
I just bought this game, installed it, downloaded all the new NVIDEA drivers, and downloaded the new patch. But when I go to launch the game, nothing happens. What gives? My system runs on 3 gigs of ram, amx 64 4400 chip, and NVIDEA 8600 GTS card. Please help.
Umm does this make any sense to anyone?Problem Event Name: APPCRASHApplication Name: witcher.EXEApplication Version: 1.2.0.1160Application Timestamp: 4762d224Fault Module Name: witcher.EXEFault Module Version: 1.2.0.1160Fault Module Timestamp: 4762d224Exception Code: c0000005Exception Offset: 00222332OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1Locale ID: 4105Additional Information 1: 7e99Additional Information 2: 60dc1f5a80adcf1489ee5b4fca5a565dAdditional Information 3: 29abAdditional Information 4: d8f3dcb6fbb3706215c0d7872fe44b9cExtra information about the problemBucket ID: 596511086 I bought the game (without reg number) four days ago and have tried all the fixes I can figure out how to do. I run a good computer with vista proffesional. Anyways could someone please help, I just want to play this game. Thanks Ezra.
I bought this game legally and is it is a fun game, but it has a lot of problems. Looking at the different forums, I would say that most of them are due to the copy protection. I lose characters (the reverend) and have to start back from a savegame several hours back. The screen freezes, sometimes during a load going in and out of a building, sometimes just like that. Each time I hear the DVD player making noise. I don't want to change the DVD because it noy even one year old and never gives any other problems.So would it not be a big way forward and clear up a lot of frustration to remove the copy protection during the game. I don't like cracks and I always pay for my games, but then I would like some quality too. I understand random bugs, but not something so simple to solve as this.Hope that the christmas spirit brings a quick solution.nice hollidays guys
Problem: I have an Intel GMA chipset and receive the message "Warning. Minimum system requirments not met."Solution: First, download the current patch (1.2 as of this post). Install it. Second, download 3DAnalyze (use your favorite search engine to search "3DAnalyze" and download current version (2.36 as of this post). Install it. Third, use 3DAnalyze to run your game. Run the 3DAnalyze executable. Click "select". Find your Witcher executable (Witcher.exe). Should be in Program Files/The Witcher/System/Witcher.exe. Be sure to get the one in the system folder rather than the launcher. Once Witcher.exe is selected 3DAnalyze should show the pathway in the upper left hand area. Check the boxes for"emulate HW TnL caps", "emulate pixel shader caps", and "shaders" under anti-detect mode. Input "4098" in the box for vendor id and "20040" in the box for device id. Click thr "Run" button to start the game. 3DAnalyze will remember your settings every time you select the Witcher executable. To start your game you must use 3Danalyze every time.