viveks86
Member
Wise choice. I'm on the 4th loop! Can't stop. Probably going to sleep with it on.
Witcher 3 Pre-load live on GOG Galaxy
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Wise choice. I'm on the 4th loop! Can't stop. Probably going to sleep with it on.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
I think the 970 GTX would be a great option for you at this time.
Increased performance, Hairworks, HBAO+, PhysX, etc in Wild Hunt, and you get Wild Hunt and Arkham Knight free...
Just recently made the leap, I have ALWAYs had ATi cards, my first Nvidia card ever was my EVGA 970 FTW a couple months ago, the card is a beast, and I was so happy with it, I bought another for SLI and the Wild Hunt. (I game at 4K so the SLI was more of a necessity for me)
cripterion
Member
Dictator93
Member
How has that been going btw? You never got back about the Bokeh in TW2!
Dictator93
Member
I also got that. No idea why.
Dictator did you see the jesse cox preview, looks so good on PC even with low bitrate recording+yt compression. Much better than most non gamersyde footage.
I got it, decompressed just fine even with it present.
I got it, decompressed just fine even with it present.
Dictator93
Member
Yeah I watched some bits (trying to stay low on the spoiler radar). His method of encoding and production makes the videos so much better than regular youtube ones. Any idea what he does?
I have no idea sorry, I'm not too into the known about how encoding works.
http://www.gfycat.com/HonoredWhimsicalJerboa the sky and lightning here and the way Igni looks on PC is so good though.
OmegaDL50
Member
Well I already bought the Witcher 3, so if I do put the money down for a 970 GTX, I'm probably likely to just give the The Witcher 3 code away for free.
Or maybe sell it to offset the cost of upgrading my GPU. I am not even sure about Arkham Knight either. I never played any of the Arkham games honestly.
I was planning on rebuilding an entirely new PC in 2017 anyways with the intent of getting Intel Skylake, Nvidia Pascal, and DDR4.
So I'm try to weight my options of getting the 970 GTX, or hold out until late 2016, early 2017 and go crazy on my next build.
Are you familiar with video uploads in general? Or at least can spot things like poor compression or overall quality.
I've been starting to record footage of my games and stuff and uploaded to the Youtube. I figure maybe you could look at one my recent videos and tell me if something is out of place or wrong.
The reason I ask is I plan to start doing more recordings and possibly start streaming The Witcher 3. If the Gamersyde guy, Blim was here, I could probably ask, but I generally don't like randomly PM people to bother them.
Tried different systems/programs/os but nothing. Dunno if the zip is corrupted, but it would be so from source, because I redownloaded it several times.
Maybe your disk is nearing to an end :/
All my disks (and ssds)??!! Doubt it, to be honest lol
Not sure if anyone answered, but just install the game.
Get 970 for the time being. You won't be disappointed. It's a beast of a card.
I just want to know how this game will perform on an AMD Card ( MSI 290),because it is a heavily marketed nvidia Game. ?
Looking at the recommended requirements 770 vs 290 ( wtf ? the 290 is more powerful) and the interview where a dev said we should expect 30fps with the rec specs I am very concerned.
If my i5 4560k and my 290 will run the game just as good as the PS4, I might buy the PS4 version...That would be a terrible optimization btw.
Looking at the recommended requirements 770 vs 290 ( wtf ? the 290 is more powerful) and the interview where a dev said we should expect 30fps with the rec specs I am very concerned.
If my i5 4560k and my 290 will run the game just as good as the PS4, I might buy the PS4 version...That would be a terrible optimization btw.
If i'm not wrong you will be able to play this on 1080p with high/ultra settings with a better framerate than the PS4 version (probably).
Pop On Arrival
Banned
no soundtrack for steam buyers? I bought the one that came with the season pass.
The store page says it comes with it if you pre-order.
RenegadeXV8
Banned
I wouldn't worry too much. Witcher 2 was also Nvidia sponsored but ended up running slightly better on AMD hardware.
The performance impact of Hairworks seems to be similar for Nvidia and AMD. About the only thing you might not be able to enable is GPU PhysX.
There's also this:
https://twitter.com/amd_roy/status/597492754931920896
Maybe pre-order bonuses just aren't out yet for Steam users.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Where have we seen Hairworks in WH on AMD hardware?
Or are you talking about Far Cry's implementation?
RenegadeXV8
Banned
Yep, going by this:
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/01/12/far_cry_4_graphics_features_performance_review/5
Of course, I expect W3's implementation to be way better, so we'll see if that's where the difference between Maxwell and GCN/Kepler will show up.
You are right, specwise you might think it will run better on PC, but after the newest Interview with a CD Dev I am a little worried. He specifically said that the recommended settings are for High settings at around 30 fps. This is worrying me.
Hairworks is nice, but I do not really need it.
PS: I wanted to post this in the other thread
ScepticMatt
Member
Does anyone know when/where I can find the Steam Witcher 3 OST?
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
I imagine we won't be able to get to it for the time being since the game's content is encrypted. Those who have their pre-order content are most likely GoG purchasers.
Pop On Arrival
Banned
Hmm, could it be different per region? I'm in asia and it isn't available for me. I doubt they'd keep something as simple as the soundtrack locked away from random regions tho. My guess is that it just isn't available on steam and it's a bonus for the people that bought it from their platform.
oh well.
ScepticMatt
Member
As far as I know, Steam gets the lossy compressed sountrack, and GOG additionally has the .flac version.
bltn
Member
Looks like the zip file is corrupt. If you have java installed, you can try this in a terminal/command prompt:
Code:
jar xvf the_witcher_3_wild_hunt_-_official_soundtrack_flac.zipWith that I was able to extract everything except the last track.
The steam version will be entirely encrypted until release, so that's probably why we can't see it or use it yet.
holygeesus
Banned
Outstanding first experience with GOG Galaxy - won't actually download anything upon clicking install. Bravo, just...bravo.
To be fair, you are using beta software. It isn't required for you to download and play The Witcher 3 on GOG.
kuoniradha
Neo Member
I preordered a GOG license on G2A... Still waiting for the delivery.
God bless my European 100Mbit fiber connection -.-
God bless my European 100Mbit fiber connection -.-
Felix Lighter
Member
Is the discount for owning the Witcher 1 and 2 for preorders only?
holygeesus
Banned
Then why even release it if it doesn't work properly? Downloading software via a launcher should be job 1 on the list of functionality when it comes down to it, especially when it involves one of your biggest game launches of all time. I'm not asking for my Fibre connection to be maxed out, but there is something fundamentally flawed, when a download is stuck on 0.1Mb/sec, jumping up in speed for a few seconds, then back down to 0.1 and repeat.
I appreciate the game isn't even out till next week, but my PC is sitting burning off electricity to download a game, which at this rate, is going to take days and add to the cost. If you can't 'do' a launcher right, don't bother, especially when there are alternatives out there already that actually work. The Beta status of Galaxy, should be related to how none of the other features even work yet, so at this time, downloading games is all it's being asked to do, and it can't even get that right.
GOG Galaxy has to be the worst... thing i've ever used. Download was going pretty good, but at 65% it just stopped working out of nowhere, for no reason at all. I restarted the client and it said "game corrupted", so i tried to verify/correct the installation, it went to "queue" and stayed like that for like half an hour without doing anything. At this point i just aborted the installation, guess i'm better off downloading it from regular GOG.
I know it's still in beta, but damn.
I know it's still in beta, but damn.
You seem to not quite grasp what beta means. This is not release software. Have you filed a bug report on the bug tracker (or rather, added to the surely already existing report)?
You can download it manually off gog.com using your browser or in a more automated fashion using the gog downloader if galaxy is giving you trouble. You can add the game to galaxy afterwards by clicking on the plus in the upper left corner and using the scan option.
Also, it may be an issue with their CDN - you could greatly contribute to the cause by taking their speed test, ideally a few times a couple of hours apart.
Excellent. Thanks!
holygeesus
Banned
I understand what beta means. If your beta software doesn't even fulfil the first task it should be doing, then it shouldn't even be in beta.
Xion_Stellar
People should stop referencing data that makes me feel uncomfortable because games get ported to platforms I don't like
Your own experiences don't reflect the experience of everyone else who is using the service and if your displeased with the application simply use the web downloader or purchase the game elsewhere.
You would have more of an argument if it wasn't for the fact that this software is still in Beta not to mention it's both optional AND free to use but otherwise you would be right up there with XBLA/PS+ Users who complain about a service they are paying for.
Both The Witcher and The Witcher 2 use CEG ("Steam DRM"), so I have my doubts that The Witcher 3 will be different. It's a little annoying, I suppose, but I can't exactly fault CDPR for wanting to keep "DRM-free" as a selling point for the GOG version specifically.
No, you appear not to understand what beta means.
This program is working for most of us, but some people are getting the 0.1MB/s bug.
This is obviously not working as intended for a particular subset of their customers. Which is why they are doing this public beta in he first place: catching stuff that their own QA team could not. Which is why people like you that encounter problems need to file bug reports. So that the bug can be traced, found, eliminated, and thus allowing gog to provide you with full download speeds once the client enters production.
This is the open beta working as intended.
I can't even preload TW3 or install TW2 through the client. I tried another game and it worked fine, but the Witcher games just tell me "Game Not Supported"?
I even tried importing my TW2 install and it still didn't work.
Oh well, maybe they'll fix this piece of junk sometime
I even tried importing my TW2 install and it still didn't work.
Oh well, maybe they'll fix this piece of junk sometime
holygeesus
Banned
Hmmm I think you are wrong on that one. This thread alone has people exhibiting the same problem.
Regardless, as suggested, I am downloading via the HTTP links and (surprise surprise) they are maxing out my connection, so it is all good.
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
A small patch file will download on release. The game is not playable without that patch.
The entire point of beta testing is to find and fix bugs like the one you have run into. Not everyone is having the same experience of you, they haven't released a piece of software that works only in the way you say it does. If you don't want to be part of that testing, don't use it. I'll repeat GOG Galaxy is not required for you to download and play The Witcher 3 from GOG.
It seems a really weird thing to do, to deliberately decide you want to be part of the beta testing phase and complaining when you run into issues the beta testing phase is designed to surface.
He might be wrong? What, are you seriously suggesting everyone is having the same experience as you?
holygeesus
Banned
No, he said everyone else was running it just fine, where evidence to the contrary, in this thread alone, says otherwise.
Look, I'm not interested in an argument. My point is, if you launch a product in a beta stage, it should at least do the job it was primarily designed to do for everyone - not just some people. I can understand all other features being flakey, but for a game delivery service not to deliver games, is way beyond any issue that needs ironing out.
As you say, game is installable in other ways, so it is no big deal, but I see no reason why people should be leaped upon for daring criticising Galaxy, beta or not.