Severe problems getting TW2 to work
edit: My apologies, I was under the impression I was adding a reply to this thread @ http://en.thewitcher.com/forum/index.php?/topic/29953-fresh-install-of-tw2-ee-forcing-a-download/ I'll repost this in that thread as well, so if a moderator feels the need to delete this one please don't hesitate.
I am having the exact same problem, been trying to get TW2 to work again all day now with no success. It's starting to wear down on my patience. I'll elaborate on what I've tried so far.
Initially I was just happy EE was out and wanted to install it. It gave me some errors on corrupt files and after that the launcher stopped working completely (I consistently got a 'the witcher 2 launcher has stopped working' error'). Also trying to bypass the launcher by using witcher2.exe directly didn't work as it gave me that 'please use the launcher' pop-up.
I figured if there really were corrupt files I'd do a fresh install from my original Assassin of Kings dvd's. I deinstalled the game, ran CCleaner and deleted any files in My Documents to make sure everything was removed. After installing (and registering my cd-key) it tried auto-updating the game (downloading 10 GB again). After this was done, I got the exact same error on corrupted files on my existing installation, even though I had done a fresh install.
So I came here, read various tips I could try including shutting down UAC and AV (I even deinstalled this to make double sure) and running everything as administrator just in case. I also read that I could skip the registration of my cd-key and install the patches (as administrator) manually, so I tried this without anti-virus installed, and UAC turned completely off. For some reason the patches seemed to fail working (I tried 1.0 -> 1.35, 1.35 -> 2.0 and the EE patch of 10+ GB) returning corruption errors and it aborted installation. But whenever this was done the launcher simply stopped working. Also even with a fresh install from the original disks I couldn't bypass the launcher as again I got the 'please use the launcher' pop-up. Also, with a fresh install and trying to bypass the registration just to play the game, that same registration prompt just kept popping up.
With all the corruption errors I figured my HDD may have been the cause, so I did several things to check this (which costed me half the day). To my surprise the returned results were that my HDD was in perfect condition and that no sections had been damaged or had any errors in them at all. Normally I would be happy, but in this case I had kinda hoped it would have been the cause of my problems so that I at least knew how to fix it.
So now I am a bit at a wits' end, I have tried about everything I read on here and the situation of the OP is exactly the same as mine. I have no tried reinstalling this game about 6 times today already under different situation and nothing is working. The funny thing is that I used to play this game on this exact same PC when it was originally released so I don't know why a truly fresh install isn't working either.
I hope someone can help out the OP and me, because I was really looking forward to play this game again and I have no idea why it isn't working anymore.
edit: My apologies, I was under the impression I was adding a reply to this thread @ http://en.thewitcher.com/forum/index.php?/topic/29953-fresh-install-of-tw2-ee-forcing-a-download/ I'll repost this in that thread as well, so if a moderator feels the need to delete this one please don't hesitate.
I am having the exact same problem, been trying to get TW2 to work again all day now with no success. It's starting to wear down on my patience. I'll elaborate on what I've tried so far.
Initially I was just happy EE was out and wanted to install it. It gave me some errors on corrupt files and after that the launcher stopped working completely (I consistently got a 'the witcher 2 launcher has stopped working' error'). Also trying to bypass the launcher by using witcher2.exe directly didn't work as it gave me that 'please use the launcher' pop-up.
I figured if there really were corrupt files I'd do a fresh install from my original Assassin of Kings dvd's. I deinstalled the game, ran CCleaner and deleted any files in My Documents to make sure everything was removed. After installing (and registering my cd-key) it tried auto-updating the game (downloading 10 GB again). After this was done, I got the exact same error on corrupted files on my existing installation, even though I had done a fresh install.
So I came here, read various tips I could try including shutting down UAC and AV (I even deinstalled this to make double sure) and running everything as administrator just in case. I also read that I could skip the registration of my cd-key and install the patches (as administrator) manually, so I tried this without anti-virus installed, and UAC turned completely off. For some reason the patches seemed to fail working (I tried 1.0 -> 1.35, 1.35 -> 2.0 and the EE patch of 10+ GB) returning corruption errors and it aborted installation. But whenever this was done the launcher simply stopped working. Also even with a fresh install from the original disks I couldn't bypass the launcher as again I got the 'please use the launcher' pop-up. Also, with a fresh install and trying to bypass the registration just to play the game, that same registration prompt just kept popping up.
With all the corruption errors I figured my HDD may have been the cause, so I did several things to check this (which costed me half the day). To my surprise the returned results were that my HDD was in perfect condition and that no sections had been damaged or had any errors in them at all. Normally I would be happy, but in this case I had kinda hoped it would have been the cause of my problems so that I at least knew how to fix it.
So now I am a bit at a wits' end, I have tried about everything I read on here and the situation of the OP is exactly the same as mine. I have no tried reinstalling this game about 6 times today already under different situation and nothing is working. The funny thing is that I used to play this game on this exact same PC when it was originally released so I don't know why a truly fresh install isn't working either.
I hope someone can help out the OP and me, because I was really looking forward to play this game again and I have no idea why it isn't working anymore.
