Unplayable due to Five Minute Load Times
Of course the game IS playable. If you have nothing else to do but wait and wait and wait for the game to load. Unfortunately for many of us who have a life, this is not the case. What a shame. This is a terrific game (when it is done loading), but heaven help you if you want to use trial and error in any situation and reload to try things different ways. And even if you give up your gamer's right to rebooting for experimentation, there is (at least in my playing of Witcher) the invevitable game crash that forces a reboot and reload. Every time this game loads, the splash screen sits, unmoving, no sign of life, for five minutes or more. You really think it is frozen, but just wait long enough and it actually gets you to the saved game selections to load. The latest version has helped with scene changes in the game, speeding up transitions from a room to the outside world for example, but load times remain a punishing affair. So much so that I, like some others I have seen on the boards, have had to put this game away. Here is hoping that the Witcher team gets it right with the next revision!
Of course the game IS playable. If you have nothing else to do but wait and wait and wait for the game to load. Unfortunately for many of us who have a life, this is not the case. What a shame. This is a terrific game (when it is done loading), but heaven help you if you want to use trial and error in any situation and reload to try things different ways. And even if you give up your gamer's right to rebooting for experimentation, there is (at least in my playing of Witcher) the invevitable game crash that forces a reboot and reload. Every time this game loads, the splash screen sits, unmoving, no sign of life, for five minutes or more. You really think it is frozen, but just wait long enough and it actually gets you to the saved game selections to load. The latest version has helped with scene changes in the game, speeding up transitions from a room to the outside world for example, but load times remain a punishing affair. So much so that I, like some others I have seen on the boards, have had to put this game away. Here is hoping that the Witcher team gets it right with the next revision!
There is also the option of wiping your hardrive and reinstalling everything. Dunno if that'll help, but if its been over a year since you've done that, it should, with The Witcher and overall performance.