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wellwhoopdedooo posted:[Turn most of this stuff down low. Especially bloom, they have to reneder each frame twice for that, same with motion blur I believe. Otherwise, it's all been covered well above. Don't forget vysnc. I have. The game itself isn't crashing, it's just not doing anything at all. I run as an admin and the little circle around the mouse runs like it's thinking about something, then nothing happens and I'm staring at my desktop. This has happened even after I reinstalled the game. I'm using the disc version, if that helps. I've gone into the system configure screen and lowered everything. It was working great until I installed the EE. If it helps I'm running windows 7 x64, pendtium dual core 3.2GHZ, 4 gigs of ram, and an nvidia g220. The game ran fine under that. Overlord7517 fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Apr 23, 2012 |
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I'm trying to upgrade to the Enhanced Edition and it wants me to redownload the whole game, is this normal?
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Apr 23, 2012 05:56
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Pwnstar posted:I'm trying to upgrade to the Enhanced Edition and it wants me to redownload the whole game, is this normal? If it's on Steam, yes.
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Apr 23, 2012 06:01
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I have the GOG version.
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Apr 23, 2012 06:22
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Pwnstar posted:I have the GOG version. I have the retail version and I had to download over 10GB of data so I think it's indeed normal.
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Apr 23, 2012 06:24
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Honestly I would just do a fresh download and install. In the last thread there were quite a few people with patching issues and corrupt files, myself included (I also have the GOG version). I'm not sure if they fixed it so maybe somebody else can weigh in on if the patching woes are gone now.
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Apr 23, 2012 06:26
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I wish the game was more up-front about quests that span multiple chapters. I spent an hour and a half scouring every part of the river trying to find out whatever I had to do for the Mystic River quest after dropping off the letter. That's a failure of game design right there, causing players to look for things that aren't there.
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Apr 23, 2012 06:42
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Samurai Sanders posted:I wish the game was more up-front about quests that span multiple chapters. I spent an hour and a half scouring every part of the river trying to find out whatever I had to do for the Mystic River quest after dropping off the letter. That's a failure of game design right there, causing players to look for things that aren't there. Yeah, you're right. I did the exact same thing for about 10 minutes until I reached for the Quest Guide that comes with the EE. I wish the map was a little more detailed in general, really. Even when blatantly using the guide to find out what to do, sometimes it'll say "go to X's house", and the only way for me to find out where that is is to go into every loving house one by one, with a pair of loading times per house.
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Apr 23, 2012 06:49
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Samurai Sanders posted:I wish the game was more up-front about quests that span multiple chapters. I spent an hour and a half scouring every part of the river trying to find out whatever I had to do for the Mystic River quest after dropping off the letter. That's a failure of game design right there, causing players to look for things that aren't there. One of the few things that was not improved from the original game. From what I remember in the Witcher 1 if a quest had nothing left to action in your current chapter the entry actually moved ahead to the relevant chapter.
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Apr 23, 2012 07:12
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Cirofren posted:One of the few things that was not improved from the original game. From what I remember in the Witcher 1 if a quest had nothing left to action in your current chapter the entry actually moved ahead to the relevant chapter.
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Apr 23, 2012 07:14
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Samurai Sanders posted:I didn't have as much of a problem there because the description would change to like "Geralt knew there was nothing else to be done, so he decided to wait for things to develop". It took me half a playthrough to realise that the journal was telling a decent portion of the quest related stories. Might be worth putting in the OP for terrible gamers like me who have adjusted to running at flashing map markers.
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Apr 23, 2012 07:17
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Oh yeah, there's no way to make the interface/text bigger is there? I'm playing with a TV/sofa, and while the dialog text is all plenty big, menu text and stuff is a little small.
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Apr 23, 2012 07:22
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Samurai Sanders posted:Oh yeah, there's no way to make the interface/text bigger is there? I'm playing with a TV/sofa, and while the dialog text is all plenty big, menu text and stuff is a little small. The 360 version has a "large fonts" option in the menu but I don't remember it from the PC version. Haven't checked the EE menu on the PC though.
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Apr 23, 2012 07:53
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Pwnstar posted:I'm trying to upgrade to the Enhanced Edition and it wants me to redownload the whole game, is this normal? If you have the GOG version, its worth skipping the 11GB patch and just redownloading the entire game again. The installer for the enhanced edition is only an extra 4GB more at 15GB total, and will save having to repatch the game if you ever need to reinstall.
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Apr 23, 2012 07:56
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wellwhoopdedooo posted:[Turn most of this stuff down low. Especially bloom, they have to reneder each frame twice for that, same with motion blur I believe. Otherwise, it's all been covered well above. Don't forget vysnc. Neither of those need to render everything twice. They are both a post-process. Motion blur may require more info and is probably heavier, but bloom is pretty simple and shouldn't make a huge difference. Also, your v-sync crusade seems ill-informed. (You say you "implemented" it once, but there is nothing to implement, just set the presentation interval in DX. One line of code). 
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Apr 23, 2012 08:57
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Cirofren posted:The 360 version has a "large fonts" option in the menu but I don't remember it from the PC version. Haven't checked the EE menu on the PC though. Samurai Sanders posted:How's the frame rate on the 360 version anyway? Yeah, the fonts are pretty easy to read, and the game is pretty smooth, though I did catch some very light tearing in some of the cutscenes. I have a pretty mediocre Dynex TV though, so a better TV might not have them. I grew up with Commodore 64 games and never really got into the graphics race many PC users seem to have gotten into, while I'm sure the PC version is capable of looking far better, the 360 version looks pretty good to me. Perhaps Youtubing a 360 gameplay video would help if you need to see for yourself. \/\/\/\/\/ I agree 100%. It's the first thing I check to see in any game. CAPT. Rainbowbeard fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Apr 24, 2012 |
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Apr 23, 2012 12:31
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I have never been able to understand why vsync isn't always enabled by default in every game. How can anybody stand the horizontal tearing?
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Apr 23, 2012 14:36
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Maelin posted:I have never been able to understand why vsync isn't always enabled by default in every game. How can anybody stand the horizontal tearing? Because it caps the frame rate and also for some games like Dead Space caused annoying performance problems.
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Apr 23, 2012 14:44
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Samurai Sanders posted:I wish the game was more up-front about quests that span multiple chapters. I spent an hour and a half scouring every part of the river trying to find out whatever I had to do for the Mystic River quest after dropping off the letter. That's a failure of game design right there, causing players to look for things that aren't there. This quest just popped up for me, you just saved me about an hour. Thanks! melon farmer fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Apr 23, 2012 |
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Apr 23, 2012 15:49
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Maelin posted:I have never been able to understand why vsync isn't always enabled by default in every game. How can anybody stand the horizontal tearing? Here's a pretty good essay about the pros and cons of vsync. In a nutshell, it can cause sudden drops in FPS during gameplay. http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=928593
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Apr 23, 2012 16:13
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Just finished my Iorveth path playthrough. I forgot just how downer the ending is for everyone that isn't named Geralt.  Sure, Saskia gets her free Vergen, Iorveth gets a chance at redemption, and Geralt walks away with most of his memories and Triss, but aside from a single line from Geralt in which he expresses that there is a chance the North could band together, things are not looking good.I imagine the third game will take us to Nilfgaard, in further search of Yennefer, but there'd be a hell of a story to tell in the North, too, with how imminent the invasion and war is. EDIT: Uhhh... yeah, should have let the credits finish first.
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Apr 23, 2012 20:39
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Roche's path is even worse. poo poo, by Act 3 pretty much everyone who give a poo poo about the fate of Temeria is dead, Kaedwen is victorious in smashing a peasant army but is now either ruled by a clear tyrant or in a state of total disarray with a lack of leadership, your two best friends have been forced to flee due to being at risk of getting executed by Kaedwen, and everything you've done has pretty much been all for naught. Really the only upside of things is that you and Roche are buds for life.
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Apr 23, 2012 21:19
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I did Roche's path first (I think based on bad vibes about Scoiatel left over from the first game), I just started chapter 2 on Iorveth's. So far it's like a crazy parallel world. Boy, this game did story splits like nothing else.
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Apr 23, 2012 21:21
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Samurai Sanders posted:I did Roche's path first (I think based on bad vibes about Scoiatel left over from the first game), I just started chapter 2 on Iorveth's. So far it's like a crazy parallel world. Boy, this game did story splits like nothing else. I just got to Chapter 2 and I'm going with Iorveth. I didn't like the Scoiatel from the first game but while sigfried from the order of the rose was cool, I went neutral, especially since the OOTR went a bit nuts. I hope I made a good choice... While Iorveth is a bit of a dick, he seems to have something in mind to restore order in the world while Roche just wants to get revenge for Foltest and perpetuate conflict. Roche is a cool dude but I dunno. I'll go back to play his path anyway when I finish Iorveth's path. GoldenNugget fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Apr 23, 2012 |
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Apr 23, 2012 21:51
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GoldenNugget posted:I hope I made a good choice... While Iorveth is a bit of a dick, he seems to have something in mind to restore order in the world while Roche just wants to get revenge for Foltest and perpetuate conflict. Roche is a cool dude but I dunno. I'll go back to play his path anyway when I finish Iorveth's path. There is no right choice.
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Apr 23, 2012 21:57
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Both paths are great and definitely worth playing. Personally I went Roche first and then Iorveth, I felt like that was really the best way to experience the game since a lot of stuff that you find out in the latter give you some cool realizations about things you didn't quite understand when going through the first time.
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Apr 23, 2012 22:06
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Samurai Sanders posted:I did Roche's path first (I think based on bad vibes about Scoiatel left over from the first game), I just started chapter 2 on Iorveth's. So far it's like a crazy parallel world. Boy, this game did story splits like nothing else. I did Roche's path on my first (and thus far only) playthrough... Christ I felt like an rear end in a top hat at the end of Chapter 1 when I nicely escorted Iorveth up to the shrine, the poo poo hits the fan and Geralt is just looking around confused, and then decides to just go all in, not cut Iorveth free, and then punch him in the face before running away. It was surprising simply because I had been playing pretty Neutral like in the first game (which I used my save from) and up to that point had been buddying up with both sides, mostly, though Geralt had had an undertone of disrespect for the Scoia'tel's methods and chose to distance himself from them as not buying into the whole "I'm a non-human, too, so clearly I should side with you guys" thing... still, up to then, he hadn't thrown in his lot for Temeria, either, and was still just a merc for hire because he had no love of kings or royalty (a theme I kept playing through Act 2-3 with) and he was mostly in it with Roche to clear his name. It really came together when you finally go to Vergen at the end of Act 2 and storm Iorveth's hideout and he was just so annoyed and pissed to see me, and had this totally defeatist attitude, making passive aggressive comments about how Geralt (and I, by proxy) hosed him over. It was really surprising how much subtlety there was in this game to your dialogue choices and their repercussions sometimes, and how the tone could change drastically based on your choice. So good. Fuzz fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Apr 23, 2012 |
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Apr 23, 2012 22:20
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I went Iorveth's Path my first time. I knew the split was coming and I was 99% sure I was going to go with Roche, but I quickly changed my mind after what I did at the shrine: I knocked out Iorveth. I thought it was the smart thing to do since this was a really bad time for two of my allies to start trying to kill each other, so I decided to end the fight quickly. But I felt really bad about it when I was told that Iorveth was being taken to the non-human prison, and wanted to rescue him. Also, I was a little miffed that Roche wanted me to do his thing instead of leaving to find Letho and Triss immediately (since I got the party, I didn't hate Laredo enough to want to go kill him). Lycus fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Apr 23, 2012 |
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Apr 23, 2012 22:34
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Davos posted:Both paths are great and definitely worth playing. Personally I went Roche first and then Iorveth, I felt like that was really the best way to experience the game since a lot of stuff that you find out in the latter give you some cool realizations about things you didn't quite understand when going through the first time. I would second this. Roche then Iorveth is the best way to play through the game because the latter is quite a bit more revelatory and rewarding to play in that order.
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Apr 23, 2012 22:48
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Even if you chose to do the Iorveth path for Chapter 2, it's better to sock him in the face during the Letho confrontation. You can still free him and go with him to Vergen, and you still get the celebration instead of the whole killing of all the non-humans in town thing.
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Apr 23, 2012 22:49
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Donny posted:I would second this. Roche then Iorveth is the best way to play through the game because the latter is quite a bit more revelatory and rewarding to play in that order.
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I went Roche's path on my only playthough (so far, gonna start a Iorveth one when I get a chance to sit down and play for a while). I spent most of act 2 keeping Roche happy and trying to clear my name, and then I got to act 3. I totally abandoned Roche's plan to go save Triss, partly because it's Triss and partly because I figured Roche was a big boy and could handle himself. After beating the dragon, I found Roche fighting off several soldiers, with the bastard daughter nearby. He was so bitter about me not helping him, because apparently while he did get the daughter, Dethmold got away and warned everyone and now he's got a price on his head. Worse, the only thing to take his focus off of him thinking I hosed him over was the news that Nilfgaard hosed us all over and were planning to invade. It ended up being a decent resolution, him taking the girl and fleeing to the countryside with the girl to raise her. I still felt like an rear end, though.
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Apr 23, 2012 22:51
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Man, should I go back and do Roche's path for my first playthrough then? Iorveth's path is pretty neat though.
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Apr 23, 2012 22:54
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Beanpants posted:Even if you chose to do the Iorveth path for Chapter 2, it's better to sock him in the face during the Letho confrontation. You can still free him and go with him to Vergen, and you still get the celebration instead of the whole killing of all the non-humans in town thing. I disagree. Helping Iorveth and causing the town to burn allows you to rescue a comely elf girl, who will be extremely grateful to Geralt later on. 
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Apr 23, 2012 23:00
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GoldenNugget posted:Man, should I go back and do Roche's path for my first playthrough then? Iorveth's path is pretty neat though.
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Apr 23, 2012 23:01
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Lycus posted:No, don't do that. Stick with your own choices. Whichever way you do it, it's always less fun if you're only doing what other people tell you to do. Yes, this game will be far more fun if you avoid spoilers and just make the best decisions you can (or worst, for hilarity) based on the information you have.
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Apr 23, 2012 23:04
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Donny posted:I disagree. Helping Iorveth and causing the town to burn allows you to rescue a comely elf girl, who will be extremely grateful to Geralt later on.
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Apr 23, 2012 23:05
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What are the default decisions in the 360 version? I tried playing this on my PC again and it's just unbearable. Nothing I do makes the framerate any less than awful and the mouse controls are terrible. I might try again later if I can find my wired controller but for now I'm just pissed off. I want to play this game but in the form I have I just can't.
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All I recall is that you helped the Scoia'tael, romanced Triss rather than Shani, and let Adda die. Oh, and helped out the Temerican intelligence guy whose name I forget. Nothing else from 1 seemed to have an impact other than if you had the raven equipment or not.
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