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    The Witcher EE

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by oncewasperfect, Mar 25, 2011.

  1. oncewasperfect

    oncewasperfect Newbie

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    I know its been done a hundred times but I'm having a hard time finding a consolidated answer.

    I have The Witcher EE 1.5 installed. The game won't start it kicks out a minimum system requirements error. Tried adding witcher.exe from the system folder to the whitelist and it doesn't help. Tried right clicking on witcher.exe and selecting run with nvidia and it doesn't help. I can add the -dontForceMinReqs and the game will run but there is a problem. I can't change the texture setting in the game. It is stuck at low and if I try to change it the slider doesn't move and some gibberish comes up where it should say low, medium, high.

    Basically I need some way to either not have to use -dontForceMinReqs or a file edit or something to force high textures. I have the newest nvidia drivers that were released yesterday and it still doesn't work, nor did it work on the previous ones. I have an R2 if you haven't guessed by now. Any help is appreciated.
     
    oncewasperfect, Mar 25, 2011
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  2. try2catchmike

    try2catchmike Notebook Consultant

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    I am having the same problem but just playing through at the low settings. It actually looks pretty decent. (although I want to be able to adjust the settings!)
     
    try2catchmike, Mar 25, 2011
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  3. Intangble

    Intangble Notebook Consultant

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    which exe did u whitelist? and what drivers r u running?

    i had no problem, but i had to white list it to remove that error.
     
    Intangble, Mar 25, 2011
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  4. thisguyrighthere

    thisguyrighthere Notebook Guru

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    I had to set the default video device to be the Nvidia to get Witcher to run as well as a couple of other games.

    Witcher sort of ran like crap for me. Well, it ran fine, it just froze a lot. So much I quit playing.
     
    thisguyrighthere, Mar 25, 2011
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  5. oncewasperfect

    oncewasperfect Newbie

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    I'm using driver version 267.76 and adding it to the whitelist does nothing.

    edit: I've tried whitelisting both witcher.exe in the system folder and the launcher.exe neither work.
     
    oncewasperfect, Mar 25, 2011
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    darkgen Notebook Guru

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    Works perfectly with 260.x drivers - But then that means losing the ability to play PB games -

    It's an issue with the driver and the game, that several other games also suffer with.

    As, and when I have the actual time, I'll just downgrade the drivers to play through the game.

    Cheers, Paul.
     
    darkgen, Mar 25, 2011
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  7. roxxor

    roxxor Notebook Evangelist

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    Yes, I can confirm that 266.58 broke Witcher. Ran on max settings on 260.99 drivers no problem.
     
    roxxor, Mar 26, 2011
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