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    Witcher Enhanced Edition - gah

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by darkgen, Dec 27, 2010.

  1. darkgen

    darkgen Notebook Guru

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    So purchased this on the steam deals and I'm having zero luck getting it to work.

    Tried both 265.90 and 260.99 official set and no joy. Initially it will claim my system does not meet the min spec followed by the witcher.exe executable crashing.

    Tried various suggestions on forums I've and no joy. Anyone else had any success with this game?

    Running win7 x64 ultimate.

    Cheers, Paul.
     
    darkgen, Dec 27, 2010
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  2. ultimablade

    ultimablade Notebook Consultant

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    I've actually just finished the game yesterday on my R2. There were numerous crashes along the way. My drivers are official 260.99.

    First of all, make sure that your Witcher is whitelisted in the nVidia control panel and is updated to 1.5. I do know that the enhanced version is 1.4 something so you might have to manually update it to the latest version. I believe you can grab the patch from their website.

    Once that is done starting should not be an issue but do make sure to save often as the game has a tendency to crash OFTEN...

    Have a good one, other from crashes its a wonderful game.
     
    ultimablade, Dec 27, 2010
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  3. slickie88

    slickie88 Master of Puppets

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    You must have the patience of a saint. I gave up and finished it on my gaming rig.
     
    slickie88, Dec 27, 2010
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  4. SparhawkJC

    SparhawkJC Notebook Evangelist

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    That's weird, I'm running it fine besides a bout of instant CTD upon loading a save. That was fixed by verifying the game files through steam and turns out some 2+gb file got corrupted. Just finished ACT I and going through ACT II right now with no issues since then.

    Running 260.99 with my R2 from my sig.
     
    SparhawkJC, Dec 27, 2010
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  5. roxxor

    roxxor Notebook Evangelist

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    Also no issues here with my R2.
     
    roxxor, Dec 27, 2010
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  6. kovboi

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    works fine on my r1. but i installed from discs, not the steam version.
     
    kovboi, Dec 28, 2010
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  7. darkgen

    darkgen Notebook Guru

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    Well, reinstalled 260.99 drivers - Re-verified gamefiles and whitelisted 3 main executables (launcher.exe, djinni!.exe and witcher.exe) and it is now working fine!

    Unsure what went on there but cheers :)

    Paul.
     
    darkgen, Dec 28, 2010
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  8. KevinL

    KevinL Notebook Enthusiast

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    Has anyone managed to get AlienFX support working? Witcher EE is meant to have AlienFX effects but doesn't do anything on my R2 (AlienFX controller is running and 3rd-party support active). Have tried replaceing the LightFX.dll file in the witcher subdirectory to no avail.

    Edit: With the original LightFX.dll file (clearly replacing it was barking up the wrong tree) I get a Witcher/AlienFX log file in the users/appdata directory that says "No LightFX compatibile devices are present on this system."
     
    KevinL, Jan 1, 2011
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  9. Draumr

    Draumr Notebook Enthusiast

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    Any updates if you got it working? and does anyone have any idea what the lights do for the game? O_O
     
    Draumr, Jun 28, 2011
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  10. xtravbx

    xtravbx Notebook Evangelist

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    We're talking Witcher 1 enhanced edition via Steam ? I played hours of that on my R3 w/ no crashes.

    To be honest I don't really like the game.

    I thought the repetitive character models, crappy combat, and so-so story was nothing great. Pretty over rated game in my book.
     
    xtravbx, Jul 1, 2011
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