Anyone heard any chatter on the likelihood of whether the (presumed) success of the game might prompt the publisher to get off their ass and translate the rest of Sapkowski's novels?
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Not to gloat, but I just ordered all the Geralt books in German 8-)
Anyone heard any chatter on the likelihood of whether the (presumed) success of the game might prompt the publisher to get off their ass and translate the rest of Sapkowski's novels?
next one is out next year, taking their sweet time but i doubt its going to make them go any faster.
You get Raven armor for importing a save or importing a save that had the armor? Because fuck that shit, I am not doing more fetch quests.
It's actually not so bad in the first game. The tombs are pretty small (just bring plenty of Cat or a torch). The armor also makes the final sequences considerably easier (it's pretty badass).
Also I finally got the crack into Assassin of Kings this past weekend and wrote out a nice long review/initial impressions:
yea I recently had to wipe my hdd, so I installed all the new drivers for everything. So my Nvidia is updated. I remember too because when I installed the newest driver it came with the 3D stuff
Well, make sure it's not merely the newest, it's the BETA newest. If you don't specifically tell NVidia's site you want a beta driver, sometimes it won't list it. It should be new as of... the 18th or 19th, I think.
And don't install the 3d vision stuff. It's linked to framerate drops, even if you don't use it.
i'm at work so when I get home ill check the drivers again.
I'll also uninstall that 3d stuff, didnt think it would mess with anythign if I didnt have it running.
it skips like short little stutters I cant even view the opening stuff
actually maybe its low frame rate, cause when I move the mouse to select new game options and stuff its really sluggish and jumps from one point to the next
yea I recently had to wipe my hdd, so I installed all the new drivers for everything. So my Nvidia is updated. I remember too because when I installed the newest driver it came with the 3D stuff
Yeah, poor framerate during the intro makes it look stuttery or floaty, as it tries to keep the video synced with the audio. It's actually a really good barometer, all told: keep tweaking until the intro movie looks butter smooth and the game itself will be likewise.
First things to do for more FPS without a big quality hit: Get the newest beta drivers, increase texture memory to "large" if you've got a gig (I guess) of onboard video RAM (basically set it high and turn it down if you get out-of-memory crashes - with 2gb onboard with a GTX-280, I set it at "Very large" and it worked beautifully), don't install (or do uninstall) 3dVision, turn off ubersampling, turn on dangling object limit, turn shadow quality and number of lights shadowed down to medium, and turn off motion blur (it's a sickening, over-used effect).
I further chose to turn off anti-aliasing (I run at 1920x1200, where it's not particularly necessary), and I _always_ keep v-sync on (I don't think there's ever a reason to turn it off).
Things I would not touch unless I had to: depth of field and blur effects are just too awesome to turn off, SSAO is really nice if you can handle it (makes ambient light behave realistically), and bloom and light shafts are really well used by the engine. I'd lower the resolution before I dumped these.
i'll try the suggestions once I get home, I'll look for a new card thoguh cause I had planned on getting one jsut didnt do it thinking my card would last a bit longer.
In an SLI configuration, cards can be of mixed manufacturers, card model names, BIOS revisions or clock speeds. However, they must be of the same GPU series (e.g. 8600, 8800) and GPU model name (e.g. GT, GTS, GTX).[20] There are rare exceptions for "mixed SLI" configurations on some cards that only have a matching core codename (e.g. G70, G73, G80, etc.), but this is otherwise not possible, and only happens when two matched cards differ only very slightly, an example being a differing amount of video memory, stream processors, or clockspeed. In this case, the slower/lesser card becomes dominant, and the other card matches. Another exception is the GTS 250, which can SLI with the 9800 GTX+, as the GTS 250 GPU is a rebadged 9800 GTX+ GPU.
Also, do you have retail? It is reported that the retail DRM is causing a heavy performance drop. This can be fixed with different .exe (or you can wait for the patch this week).
i'll try the suggestions once I get home, I'll look for a new card thoguh cause I had planned on getting one jsut didnt do it thinking my card would last a bit longer.
Can an older card do sli with a newer one?
No. You can have two different cards power two different monitors, but to work together in SLI they must be identical in all aspects. One popular thing to do lately is to use the newer card for graphics and the older one for physics, which the newer NVidia drivers support (and even encourage), but a game has to specifically support hardware physics for this to work, which Witcher 2 doesn't.
EDIT: Alright, the long answer is, as pointed out above, soooometimes different cards can work in SLI. But I would strongly - STRONGLY - advise against fucking with that. SLI is dicey enough without giving it more reason to bite your ass.
It's irrelevant, though, because if you're going to buy a second card, the speed benefits of SLI are so slim that adding a second equivalent card is pointless. Get something newer and fast in the midrange, always stick with NVidia (ATI sucks haaaaard, sorry guys), and if you have the power supply to run both it and the old card at once, make the old one the physics processor.
i'll try the suggestions once I get home, I'll look for a new card thoguh cause I had planned on getting one jsut didnt do it thinking my card would last a bit longer.
Can an older card do sli with a newer one?
Should you buy a newer nvidia card I believe you can use this old one to offload shit like PhysX and stuff, but the answer in general is no.
A good thing to determine for this game is whether or not you bought a physical copy or if you got the game off GoG.
If you bought a physical copy or from d2d, you've got DRM, which when negated with the GoG .exe will improve some performance.
The stutter you describe does sound like it could be related to the DRM.
I bought the collectors edition with all that shit in the box so a physical copy of the game
k i'll jsut look at a newer card to replace my old one too since I bought the ram and cpu and such stuff recently, didnt think my gpu was really that old either.
I don't know your budget, but I'll suggest the 560ti for cheap/performance ratio, though depending on your wealth you may want to go 580 GTX which will be in the same class as your old 9800, just this generation hardware.
If you want to run Witcher 2 on max (ubersampling on, as of yet anyway), you'll need to get the ludicrously expensive and totally-not-worth-it 590.
I mean, you should upgrade the card regardless of whether or not it's causing the issue in my opinion. Though it's very likely that it is. I'm running 6gb ram, i7 950 3.1ghz but a GTX 460 (which is a mid-low range card) and I'm running the game maxed sans the one option - ubersampling.
I was under the impression that only temperatures above 90 Celsius on a video card were a cause for concern when playing a graphics intensive game. Am I mistaken because 74 seems pretty cool while under load.
I was under the impression that only temperatures above 90 Celsius on a video card were a cause for concern when playing a graphics intensive game. Am I mistaken because 74 seems pretty cool while under load.
80 is generally when you have to start worrying. 74 isn't too bad.
I am using a 4890, I run it on high and I fear to put it on ultra. The card was running at 74 celcius last night.
High performance cards are high performance in part because of the durability yield of their components. They are cards that were meant to be pushed, because they were meant to perform.
IIIRC, 4890 was the highest tier of the 4000 line, thus your card should go up to 90 Celsius under load.
GPU's tend to melt (high performance ones) at around 110-120, and I believe the 4890 retains durability and functionality without issue even at 110.
My GTX460, which is a low-midrange card goes only up to 70, and stops there no matter what. Were I to overclock it, I would get better performance, but it would run into the 90 range with parts that were not deemed (or designed to be) durable enough to withstand the temperatures in that specific range. The 470 and the 480 cards go well into the 90ies and the 100's, and are notorious for performing under extreme temperatures.
However, depending on the luck of the yield, it still might perform without issue. Though it is a dice roll.
Once a card is branded "high performance" (this being the actual number it gets in its production line), like the 4890, it means all of its transistors are functional and expected to perform. Thus it has the highest cost out of the whole production line as well.
My suggestion is that you get as much performance out of your card as you can.
The Witcher 2, savior of PC gaming, plays better on a 360 controller.
It doesn't.
No, I'd say it definitely does and all the menus were clearly designed with controller use in mind.
Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, mind. It's just funny is all.
Yes, they've been designed for the console version, because they're working things out to get the game to consoles.
No, the game does not work better with a controller.
Yeah, I know it's pancake, but except for maybe the radial menu, the menus really don't work better with a controller than the mouse
I guess thats subjective to what you're used to. I know the lack of a crosshair made me flail about trying to hit some smuck in the back because I never got used to using the targeter. I can't play games like Halo on a console and even shit like Fable takes some getting used to, but I can totally see how a controller would fit the game perfectly.
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next one is out next year, taking their sweet time but i doubt its going to make them go any faster.
i like the look of it though, looks very witchery, havent seen astrologists armour yet, im still deep in chapter 2
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Okay I tried the name change. Doesn't work. It just causes the wolfhead launcher to hang.
Don't start it with the launcher.
so not sure whats wrong
I tried with the uber sampling off, I tried with low, med, high settings and the game always skips
My computer has 12 gigs of ram, nvidia 9800 GTX2, and an i7 3.4ghz
maybe my graphics card is old or something
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@Khaczor - The free version of FRAPS works for recording FPS.
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It's actually not so bad in the first game. The tombs are pretty small (just bring plenty of Cat or a torch). The armor also makes the final sequences considerably easier (it's pretty badass).
Also I finally got the crack into Assassin of Kings this past weekend and wrote out a nice long review/initial impressions:
The Witcher 2 Will Kick Your Ass
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And don't install the 3d vision stuff. It's linked to framerate drops, even if you don't use it.
Try upping the texture memory size setting.
I'll also uninstall that 3d stuff, didnt think it would mess with anythign if I didnt have it running.
it skips like short little stutters I cant even view the opening stuff
actually maybe its low frame rate, cause when I move the mouse to select new game options and stuff its really sluggish and jumps from one point to the next
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Your GPU is very old.
Time to upgrade.
First things to do for more FPS without a big quality hit: Get the newest beta drivers, increase texture memory to "large" if you've got a gig (I guess) of onboard video RAM (basically set it high and turn it down if you get out-of-memory crashes - with 2gb onboard with a GTX-280, I set it at "Very large" and it worked beautifully), don't install (or do uninstall) 3dVision, turn off ubersampling, turn on dangling object limit, turn shadow quality and number of lights shadowed down to medium, and turn off motion blur (it's a sickening, over-used effect).
I further chose to turn off anti-aliasing (I run at 1920x1200, where it's not particularly necessary), and I _always_ keep v-sync on (I don't think there's ever a reason to turn it off).
Things I would not touch unless I had to: depth of field and blur effects are just too awesome to turn off, SSAO is really nice if you can handle it (makes ambient light behave realistically), and bloom and light shafts are really well used by the engine. I'd lower the resolution before I dumped these.
okay guess ill go look for a new one
i'll try the suggestions once I get home, I'll look for a new card thoguh cause I had planned on getting one jsut didnt do it thinking my card would last a bit longer.
Can an older card do sli with a newer one?
Steam
Also, do you have retail? It is reported that the retail DRM is causing a heavy performance drop. This can be fixed with different .exe (or you can wait for the patch this week).
No. You can have two different cards power two different monitors, but to work together in SLI they must be identical in all aspects. One popular thing to do lately is to use the newer card for graphics and the older one for physics, which the newer NVidia drivers support (and even encourage), but a game has to specifically support hardware physics for this to work, which Witcher 2 doesn't.
EDIT: Alright, the long answer is, as pointed out above, soooometimes different cards can work in SLI. But I would strongly - STRONGLY - advise against fucking with that. SLI is dicey enough without giving it more reason to bite your ass.
It's irrelevant, though, because if you're going to buy a second card, the speed benefits of SLI are so slim that adding a second equivalent card is pointless. Get something newer and fast in the midrange, always stick with NVidia (ATI sucks haaaaard, sorry guys), and if you have the power supply to run both it and the old card at once, make the old one the physics processor.
Should you buy a newer nvidia card I believe you can use this old one to offload shit like PhysX and stuff, but the answer in general is no.
A good thing to determine for this game is whether or not you bought a physical copy or if you got the game off GoG.
If you bought a physical copy or from d2d, you've got DRM, which when negated with the GoG .exe will improve some performance.
The stutter you describe does sound like it could be related to the DRM.
k i'll jsut look at a newer card to replace my old one too since I bought the ram and cpu and such stuff recently, didnt think my gpu was really that old either.
Thanks for all the help with my problem
Steam
If you want to run Witcher 2 on max (ubersampling on, as of yet anyway), you'll need to get the ludicrously expensive and totally-not-worth-it 590.
I mean, you should upgrade the card regardless of whether or not it's causing the issue in my opinion. Though it's very likely that it is. I'm running 6gb ram, i7 950 3.1ghz but a GTX 460 (which is a mid-low range card) and I'm running the game maxed sans the one option - ubersampling.
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Well one would kind of hope so.
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80 is generally when you have to start worrying. 74 isn't too bad.
High performance cards are high performance in part because of the durability yield of their components. They are cards that were meant to be pushed, because they were meant to perform.
IIIRC, 4890 was the highest tier of the 4000 line, thus your card should go up to 90 Celsius under load.
GPU's tend to melt (high performance ones) at around 110-120, and I believe the 4890 retains durability and functionality without issue even at 110.
My GTX460, which is a low-midrange card goes only up to 70, and stops there no matter what. Were I to overclock it, I would get better performance, but it would run into the 90 range with parts that were not deemed (or designed to be) durable enough to withstand the temperatures in that specific range. The 470 and the 480 cards go well into the 90ies and the 100's, and are notorious for performing under extreme temperatures.
However, depending on the luck of the yield, it still might perform without issue. Though it is a dice roll.
Once a card is branded "high performance" (this being the actual number it gets in its production line), like the 4890, it means all of its transistors are functional and expected to perform. Thus it has the highest cost out of the whole production line as well.
My suggestion is that you get as much performance out of your card as you can.
Yeah, I know it's pancake, but except for maybe the radial menu, the menus really don't work better with a controller than the mouse
I guess thats subjective to what you're used to. I know the lack of a crosshair made me flail about trying to hit some smuck in the back because I never got used to using the targeter. I can't play games like Halo on a console and even shit like Fable takes some getting used to, but I can totally see how a controller would fit the game perfectly.