The Witcher 2 is awesome thread

Frozencry · Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 5:11 pm�� Post subject:

Just a quick heads up for ATI card users. If you're unable to launch the game, set it to windowed mode in the config. I just figured this out and it's a known issue that CDP are waiting on AMD to fix. Only affects a few cards. Bit annoying but eh.
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Chopbusted · Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 5:30 pm�� Post subject:

Some benchmarks from a German site:

And same again but with Uber Sampling enabled:

Wow! Won't be touching that setting!

Source: http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,825004/The-Witcher-2-im-Technik-Test-Grafikkarten-und-CPU-Benchmarks-plus-Grafikvergleich/Rollenspiel-Adventure/Test/

Edit: made the benchmarks clickable thumbnails to save space. Downloading the game now ... looks like I won't be able to play until tomorrow night after work

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Frozencry · Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 9:28 pm�� Post subject:

This game maxed is jaw dropping. Don't have ubersampling on though, haven't actually tried to use it.

Only just got to chapter 1. Yeah umm..I'm not sleeping.

Also hard mode is actually hard. Have to really know what you're doing. It's awesome.

And yeah, doesn't do Eyefinity.
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Jarrod · Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 9:43 pm�� Post subject:

Ubersampling is future card stuff that 99.9% of setups will not be able to use at high resolutions. Unless you've got an insane beast of a system and dont mind the performance hit, its best to default it off.

Super/ubersampling is the future, but that future is not quite now. It kills modern hardware a bit too much.

Also I dont have my copy yet and that makes me sad. I dont even think it's been shipped.
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Marka · Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 9:52 pm�� Post subject:

Regret steam purchase. Downloading at a blazing speed of 20kb/s.

Benc82 · Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 10:01 pm�� Post subject:

Im still playing through the first game, want to finish that off before I play this one. But I installed it and loaded it just to see how it looked, skipping cutscenes etc. Looks very pretty.

One thing i noticed, I start it twice and chose a different option in the opening dialogue and it seemed I started in a completely different scene both times. Quite cool. I did read there are 4 different begginings and 16 different endings :S
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Frozencry · Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 10:03 pm�� Post subject:

Jarrod · Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 10:15 pm�� Post subject:

Yeah. Super/uber sampling will render all assets at like 4x the resolution you're actually running and downsample it to the display resolution for stupid amazing crisp image quality. Zero jaggies and absolutely perfectly rendered textures.

I've forced it for a couple of games through nVidia Inspector and it just murders performance. It's not worth it, but it's really nice that they've included some amazing future tech there to help keep the game useful for benchmarks.
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Shadow Wave · Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 11:40 pm�� Post subject:

Really wanna play this.. but thought I should play the first one first...

grr
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Jarrod · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 12:32 am�� Post subject:

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grim-one · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 12:41 am�� Post subject:

Just 4 loading screens? So there's no load every time you start the game up, or die and re-"load" or make a wrong choice and decide to try it again? =\
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Jarrod · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 12:43 am�� Post subject:

Im guessing they only factor in playing from start to finish from the first time you boot it up, and also not playing crap.

LIKE YOU SHOULD

EDIT: Awesome easter egg.
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grim-one · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 10:16 am�� Post subject:

Yeah I wish I never reneged on my choices, but I like to get my 'perfect' outcome too much. Not dying would be good too =)

mrcool37 · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 12:24 pm�� Post subject:

So I've heard there's no dual card support, just wondering if anyone here knows if this is correct? I have a 4870x2 and heard only one can be used? If the two can eventually work together, what's the closest card I should be looking at in the benchmark chart? The tests are for a 4gb ram system, would 6gb ram
on an i7 bump it up a bit?

Can't wait to finish work and give it a whirl.

Frozencry · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 2:09 pm�� Post subject:

My 6990 is dual-GPU and it runs it fine. The full scaling of Xfire/SLI isn't in there yet but performance wise there aren't many issues, if any at all. I've heard some people getting crazy slow perf though and disabling xfire temporarily alleviates it.

Apparently driver updates are on the way from both nvidia and ATI.

Also, I went to bed VERY VERY late last night. I didn't even realise the time. And jesus this game is ridiculously hard on hard mode. A few mistakes is more than enough to get you killed in 2-3 hits or so.
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Scrav · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 2:29 pm�� Post subject:

Should be finished downloading from Steam when I get home tonight. I'm just hoping I can run it on medium settings at 1920x1200 with an 8800 gtx card (but everything else pretty well specced).

A13x · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 6:57 pm�� Post subject:

Never played the first, but I spent a fair while last night hitting W2, about an hour past the prologue now.

Had a few technical hiccups
• No Sound - It turns out my 7.1 headset is not supported as when it is set as default device, no sound plays in the game, only workaround for 8 channel sound is to reduce it to 6 or 2 channel, which cannot be done with my headset, not huge, as I have 5.1 speakers, but yee.

• Cannot run fullscreen - the launcher just reappears after the splash screen, 2560x1600 fullscreen is currently broken, suggested fix of playing at 1920x1200 fullscreen didn't work either.

• Poor frame rates - Due to a conflict with current 3D Vision drivers, the only way to get a decent frame rate is to remove 3D vision component from the driver install. EDIT: I just checked and new Drivers are out to fix this

No doubt, these issues will be addressed rather quickly, and for all I know may have been fixed since I last played (I'll be looking after I finish this post).

Also, I must add, GoG servers rule, games download so damn fast

2227KB/s on ADSL2+

Alas yeeeee!
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Benc82 · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 7:27 pm�� Post subject:

^ I had that sound issue with my Logitech G35 headset, no sound.
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Scrav · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 7:30 pm�� Post subject:

G3ck0 · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 7:35 pm�� Post subject:

Jarrod · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 7:37 pm�� Post subject:

*bow*
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Scrav · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 7:46 pm�� Post subject:

Marka · Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 8:22 am�� Post subject:

The game has pretty good audio too. Crystal clear with plenty of dynamic rage.

ManeKast · Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 10:32 am�� Post subject:

Asus G73sw Laptop:

1080p: I get just over 32fps (AA off, Ubersampling off, SSAO off, shadows on medium).
720p: 45fps on average, lowest dips are about 28 when hectic or raining with (AA on, Ubersampling off, SSAO off, shadows on medium, bloom on, gameplay LOD off).

So playing it at 720p on the 42' Plasma, with xbox wired controller for windows. Awesome. Very challenging so far, found use of spell and bombs/grease to be paramount.

PLOUGH 'EM ALL! Classic, the writing is hilarious. The game is gorgeous, so gorgeous in fact that when I get home from OS this year I am going to build a home gaming PC and get rid of the consoles (apart from uncharted 3, which Ill hold my ps3 for and I keep my Nintendo stuff so.......).
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