Those are the main bits, I'm well aware that the issue is the card. Thhat said, it runs a lot of other stuff really smoothly so theres no reason why I shouldn't be getting 60 frames on the lowest setting.
Darn. :-/ Well, every other game I've thrown at my system looks pretty good. So hopefully I can tweak some settings or an ati patch will come through to clean things up. It's a Dell XPS i7 with 8 gigs of RAM. I guess I'll have to hope for the best. Thanks!
Those are the main bits, I'm well aware that the issue is the card. Thhat said, it runs a lot of other stuff really smoothly so theres no reason why I shouldn't be getting 60 frames on the lowest setting.
Darn. :-/ Well, every other game I've thrown at my system looks pretty good. So hopefully I can tweak some settings or an ati patch will come through to clean things up. It's a Dell XPS i7 with 8 gigs of RAM. I guess I'll have to hope for the best. Thanks!
Honestly, even on low it looks good. I just wish the frame rate was alot better.
Anybody else feel like blocking in unresponsive? I'm mashing the "e" key but Gearalt doesn't get into his block pose.
Also for the love of god max out parry. Dear god does it make your life easier when fighting groups.
I think I was one of the few people who liked the combat from the first Witcher. You won or lost a fight long before you ever drew your sword preparation, tactics, and research are your weapons. Actually hitting the s.o.b with a pointy thing is almost a side-point. So far it seems that the game has kept to that spirit. Various assignments and random encounters can be trivial or soul-crushing depending on how well you prepared yourself for them before hand.
Gearalt is like one part wolverine, one part jedi knight, one part batman, and some lumberjack for crunch.
I think you have to wait for the previous action to resolve before you can parry.
Can you change difficulty in-game? Medium was too easy for me in TW1, but it sounds like 2 compensates by being much harder overall. What difficulty are you guys playing on?
desperate measures! Using steam to update gpu drivers
my god man!
the horror!
trying 11.5 ati drivers.... will report if there's a change....
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edited May 2011
OMG... my quick load for fps testing is breaking the NPCs walking paths... which is leading to an actual shoving match between the king and his advisor untill they get where they wanna go...
they actually AI'd a shove....
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Chief Wiggum: "Ladies, please. All our founding fathers, astronauts, and World Series heroes have been either drunk or on cocaine."
Anybody else feel like blocking in unresponsive? I'm mashing the "e" key but Gearalt doesn't get into his block pose.
Also for the love of god max out parry. Dear god does it make your life easier when fighting groups.
I think I was one of the few people who liked the combat from the first Witcher. You won or lost a fight long before you ever drew your sword preparation, tactics, and research are your weapons. Actually hitting the s.o.b with a pointy thing is almost a side-point. So far it seems that the game has kept to that spirit. Various assignments and random encounters can be trivial or soul-crushing depending on how well you prepared yourself for them before hand.
Gearalt is like one part wolverine, one part jedi knight, one part batman, and some lumberjack for crunch.
I think you have to wait for the previous action to resolve before you can parry.
Um. That sounds kind of silly.
I think parrying gets better as you level up. Currently, dodging is more effective.
And the people of Flotsam simply refuse to wear pants.
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desperate measures! Using steam to update gpu drivers
my god man!
the horror!
trying 11.5 ati drivers.... will report if there's a change....
heh, it actually installed the 11.5 drivers. Don't seem to make a difference though.
naw....
Dumping shadow quality does nothing. SSAO is like 5 frames... Number of shadow lights down to medium = about 5 frames.... Dropping to 720 from 1600x900 doesn't net much on its own... maybe 4-8 fps.
So @ 1600x900 With motion blur off, med shadow qual and everything else enabled no uber filter....
I get 28-32 frames with stutters. Meh.
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Chief Wiggum: "Ladies, please. All our founding fathers, astronauts, and World Series heroes have been either drunk or on cocaine."
desperate measures! Using steam to update gpu drivers
my god man!
the horror!
trying 11.5 ati drivers.... will report if there's a change....
heh, it actually installed the 11.5 drivers. Don't seem to make a difference though.
naw....
at 1600x900 Dumping shadow quality does nothing. SSAO is like 5 frames... Number of shadow lights down to medium = about 5 frames.... Dropping to 720p doesnt net much on its own... maybe 8 fps.
With motion blur off and everything else enabled....
I get 28-32 frames with stutters. Meh.
Did you also try disabling desktop composition and desktop visual themes? That might net you a few more frames, or perhaps more.
And in preperation for Witcher 2, I've been testing my i7-920's 4.0 GHz overclock temperature. On idle it's in the mid- to high-40s, and during it reaches the mid- to high-60s. 100% load is about 79 degrees. Is this too high? I have read that these CPUs are designed to run hot. I might try bumping my CPU down to 3.66 to see if that lowers the temperature a significant amount.
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mojojoeoA block off the park, living the dream.Registered Userregular
desperate measures! Using steam to update gpu drivers
my god man!
the horror!
trying 11.5 ati drivers.... will report if there's a change....
heh, it actually installed the 11.5 drivers. Don't seem to make a difference though.
naw....
at 1600x900 Dumping shadow quality does nothing. SSAO is like 5 frames... Number of shadow lights down to medium = about 5 frames.... Dropping to 720p doesnt net much on its own... maybe 8 fps.
With motion blur off and everything else enabled....
I get 28-32 frames with stutters. Meh.
Did you also try disabling desktop composition and desktop visual themes? That might net you a few more frames, or perhaps more.
netted zero frames, but good call.
and on the temps people are saying over 70 is high..... you may want to dial back...
rather i just found this too....
anyone having enormous slowdown issues on nvidia cards - the solution is to go into your control panel and uninstall Nvidia 3D drivers
i went from 7 fps to 60 fps.
ULTRA HERE I COME.
Another tip is to right click the game's executable, select Properties and then Compatibilty tab, and then check the "Disable visual themes" and "Disable desktop composition" boxes. Essentially, those turn off the nice visual effects your desktop or themes use while you're running the application. Some games may benefit more from that, but I've had some surprising instances where unplayable sections of a game (Crysis' snow levels) became smooth due to checking those two boxes.
If this turns out to work I love you guys so much.
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edited May 2011
Phenom II x4 955
Gigabyte HD 5870
8 gb ram
40-50 fps stable with everything cranked up to ultra except ubersampling and AA (I turn this off because I have morphological AA turned on in the card settings)
Are you guys able to successfully import your Witcher saves? It doesn't appear to be working. I'm not sure if it's on my end, but I've heard reports that it's currently unavailable as well.
Apparently Adda is dead in the default playthrough : ( , despite saving her in the original game.
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mojojoeoA block off the park, living the dream.Registered Userregular
edited May 2011
Ok, vsync off, AA off, motionblurr off, textures at large, SSAO ON!, shad qual med, shadow lights high- 28-40 fps
Doable. hoping a driver or patch cleans that up some. Game looks amazing.
Shits and giggles I upped it to stock ultra.... 11fps... if i move it is like 1. An fps. lol.
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BeezelThere was no agreement little morsel..Registered Userregular
edited May 2011
Jesus why does Foltest have so much bling?
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"...only mights and maybes."
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edited May 2011
This game is fucking beautiful maxed out, but even on a Quad Core @ 3ghz, 4 gigs ram and 2.4gigs on video, it slows down. Had to dial back a few small things, but fuck it's gorgeous. This is the kind of detail I've wanted to see in an RPG for a while, everything is so intricate and the world is believable (in a lived-in way). I remember when Bioware gloated about how their world looked like it had history, fuck that. Witcher aces it aesthetically in every way.
Oh my gosh also at the fact that it's basically Demon's Souls for PC with a few differences. I'm glad I went dark on all info on this game. It's surprisingly awesome so far.
So for the others sitting at work waiting for this day to end and the witchering to begin here's an interview with the Senior Producer of CD Projekt Red. I've been looking for some reviews as well. I've so far avoided all spoilers but it's getting hard to not start reading everything.
In Flotsam right now. The lack of pants on a lot of the townspeople is really weird.
Anyone have opinions on how to build their Geralt? I'm thinking of going Swordmaster/Signs. I love using Aard, and cutting stuff up is therapeutic. I'm assuming that we cannot max out everything.
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edited May 2011
I'm making junkie wizard Geralt.
And I will witch women softly
In Flotsam right now. The lack of pants on a lot of the townspeople is really weird.
Anyone have opinions on how to build their Geralt? I'm thinking of going Swordmaster/Signs. I love using Aard, and cutting stuff up is therapeutic. I'm assuming that we cannot max out everything.
If you're not going alchemy you're not a real witcher. Aard is all you need anyway!
In Flotsam right now. The lack of pants on a lot of the townspeople is really weird.
Anyone have opinions on how to build their Geralt? I'm thinking of going Swordmaster/Signs. I love using Aard, and cutting stuff up is therapeutic. I'm assuming that we cannot max out everything.
If you're not going alchemy you're not a real witcher. Aard is all you need anyway!
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"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible." - T.E. Lawrence
it's so meaty and satisfying it's like a meaty chunk of satisfying meat
also, you can switch directions while rolling so it's more of a quick-dodge move. i'm getting really good at it.
fire does crazy DoT to you though, died more than few times during the
dragon, run!
bit
things that carry over: Aerondight (the sword you get from the lady of the lake in TW1), Raven's Armor (if you had it made in TW1)
haven't seen a trace of my 20k orens i had at the end of the last game, though. the good news is, importing my save went really well, could tell because
adda is currently queen of redania. woot!
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yeah saw those on gog, thanks guys, trying the c++ stuff now, found the other exes in the bin folder, i managed to use the configurator, going to try the main exe see if i can bypass the launcher but i want this dlc stuff and patch. :?
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Darn. :-/ Well, every other game I've thrown at my system looks pretty good. So hopefully I can tweak some settings or an ati patch will come through to clean things up. It's a Dell XPS i7 with 8 gigs of RAM. I guess I'll have to hope for the best. Thanks!
Honestly, even on low it looks good. I just wish the frame rate was alot better.
Um. That sounds kind of silly.
Currently playing: GW2 and TSW
my god man!
the horror!
trying 11.5 ati drivers.... will report if there's a change....
they actually AI'd a shove....
heh, it actually installed the 11.5 drivers. Don't seem to make a difference though.
I think parrying gets better as you level up. Currently, dodging is more effective.
And the people of Flotsam simply refuse to wear pants.
naw....
Dumping shadow quality does nothing. SSAO is like 5 frames... Number of shadow lights down to medium = about 5 frames.... Dropping to 720 from 1600x900 doesn't net much on its own... maybe 4-8 fps.
So @ 1600x900 With motion blur off, med shadow qual and everything else enabled no uber filter....
I get 28-32 frames with stutters. Meh.
Did you also try disabling desktop composition and desktop visual themes? That might net you a few more frames, or perhaps more.
And in preperation for Witcher 2, I've been testing my i7-920's 4.0 GHz overclock temperature. On idle it's in the mid- to high-40s, and during it reaches the mid- to high-60s. 100% load is about 79 degrees. Is this too high? I have read that these CPUs are designed to run hot. I might try bumping my CPU down to 3.66 to see if that lowers the temperature a significant amount.
netted zero frames, but good call.
and on the temps people are saying over 70 is high..... you may want to dial back...
rather i just found this too....
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=659445
this guy says up to 85 is safe....
If this turns out to work I love you guys so much.
Gigabyte HD 5870
8 gb ram
40-50 fps stable with everything cranked up to ultra except ubersampling and AA (I turn this off because I have morphological AA turned on in the card settings)
Beautiful game
Jesus this combat is hard
Edit: Also turned off v-sync. Fuck that shit.
"...only mights and maybes."
Doable. hoping a driver or patch cleans that up some. Game looks amazing.
Shits and giggles I upped it to stock ultra.... 11fps... if i move it is like 1. An fps. lol.
"...only mights and maybes."
He gave
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downloading the last piece now, fuck you alarm.
I just woke up. :x
Back to witching.
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"...only mights and maybes."
Oh my gosh also at the fact that it's basically Demon's Souls for PC with a few differences. I'm glad I went dark on all info on this game. It's surprisingly awesome so far.
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http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198006524737
For some insane reason I thought this was for 360 as well.
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198006524737
Anyone have opinions on how to build their Geralt? I'm thinking of going Swordmaster/Signs. I love using Aard, and cutting stuff up is therapeutic. I'm assuming that we cannot max out everything.
And I will witch women softly
"...only mights and maybes."
If you're not going alchemy you're not a real witcher. Aard is all you need anyway!
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/the_witcher_2/no_inverted_mouse/page1
it's so meaty and satisfying it's like a meaty chunk of satisfying meat
also, you can switch directions while rolling so it's more of a quick-dodge move. i'm getting really good at it.
fire does crazy DoT to you though, died more than few times during the
things that carry over: Aerondight (the sword you get from the lady of the lake in TW1), Raven's Armor (if you had it made in TW1)
haven't seen a trace of my 20k orens i had at the end of the last game, though. the good news is, importing my save went really well, could tell because
Registered just for the Mass Effect threads | Steam: click ^^^ | Origin: curlyhairedboy
i've installed it, rebooted and everything, evened registers but the launcher.exe doesnt do anything, nothing happens.. wtf.
did you try running it as admin?
also check the GoG.com boards, there's a lot of tech help there and fixes and whatnot
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I bring soultions! << i hope >>
try some of these.... there are a few on launcher not launching
http://www.en.thewitcher.com/support/faq/