The Witcher (1) now available on Mac, retroactive SteamPlay in effect
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Steam gives it, but the game never actually asks for it.
Winnie the Pimp
Member
Enjoy it people, if you give this game the chance it deserves, it will manifest itself as on the best WRPGs ever!
I mean I have a CD version of the game, but I wish I could activate it on Steam.
Ohhh, no idea there. If they haven't by now though, I doubt that it's ever going to allow you to.
UltimaKilo
Gold Member
update? If you can run it, my Mac can run it!
GodfatherX
Member
likewise...im on a 2009 unibody with 4gigs of ram with another 4gb waiting to arrive, but not sure how the core2duo and mobile gpu will handle this, but would really like to play it before playing witcher 2 on 360
Madrugador
Member
It would be great if they also added Steam Cloud support and Achievements, but it's probably too late for that.
Got the game for $2.5 during the winter sale (it was $10 in my region by that time), I'm starting the game as soon as I finish my current playthroughs.
Got the game for $2.5 during the winter sale (it was $10 in my region by that time), I'm starting the game as soon as I finish my current playthroughs.
Yeah, no. Witcher 2 was released 5 years later on a completely different engine. It looks and plays nothing like the first game.
I was a little disappointed there's no Steam Cloud as well. I'm in the middle of my first playthrough on my Windows partition, and I would love to be able to continue it on Mac. Has anyone tried copying over a PC save and seeing if it will load, or vice versa?
I guess I'll find out either way when it's done downloading in a few hours.
Agent Dormer
Dirty Drinking Smoker
Yep, downloading this tonight as soon as I get home from visiting the family for the holiday. Can't wait to finally play it.
A warning to anyone thinking about buying this:
Steam has apparently run out of keys, and since it's a Holiday, it probably isn't getting resolved today.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2639534
I'm less than impressed with Steam right now. I was hoping to play this afternoon. Very amateurish problem for a supposedly mature service.
Steam has apparently run out of keys, and since it's a Holiday, it probably isn't getting resolved today.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2639534
I'm less than impressed with Steam right now. I was hoping to play this afternoon. Very amateurish problem for a supposedly mature service.
Launch the game directly from its directory? Not Steamworks so should launch fine.
No dice. Immediately requests the key and fails.
Typographenia
Member
I played it this past summer on lowest settings and enduring terrible slowdown, but I fell in love with it.
The beginning parts seem to be pretty polarizing, but I loved the entire game. It really, really picks up after a point, though.
POWERSPHERE
Member
I just started playing Skyrim on my Macbook Pro, which i'm actually quite liking, so i'll put this in the memory bank.
StopMakingSense
Member
Yes, this works fine. Hardest part is finding the save file location.
Wow, you weren't kidding. The biggest culprit was that I had to start playing the game from the beginning and make a save so Steam would create the proper directory. Or I guess I could have made it myself too. But all's well now and my PC saves work great.
Tried on my mid-2010 13" MBP.
Game runs alright, loading is poor, and visual settings are set to average by default though. There is quite a bit of stutter while playing though, especially as new enemies buffer in or the moment combat is initiated. Things smooth out and it is playable, but it's not exactly the most ideal experience, especially against my relatively older gaming PC(which this game screams on).
Game runs alright, loading is poor, and visual settings are set to average by default though. There is quite a bit of stutter while playing though, especially as new enemies buffer in or the moment combat is initiated. Things smooth out and it is playable, but it's not exactly the most ideal experience, especially against my relatively older gaming PC(which this game screams on).
Typographenia
Member
That's actually something inherent to the game. No matter what rig you're running it on, the original has some hangups from time to time.
edit: Oh, did you not have those problems at all on your other rig? Interesting!
Typographenia
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U n i o n 0015
Member
Did you ever get it working properly with the latest engine?
I know squat about this stuff. It's been a LONG time since I've played games on my Mac but I'll probably get the Witcher. I have a 2011 Mini with the discreet GPU and I'm going to need all the performance increases I can get to run it.
Smiles and Cries
Member
I did not know this RPG would have been so long... I am on act II and I am about to call for mercy... at times it fells like fetch quests lol and people complained about Wind Waker 
must have spent two hours looking for one person not knowing he went some place else
still love this game...
what is the story about keys? When I first downloaded and pressed play I go a pop-up to copy the key it said the game would ask but never did hmmm
I have modded this game a lot. Play as a Dark Elf woman... best things about old PC games are the mods
cannot wait to get my hands on Witcher 2 in a year or so
that is the same chip I am running it on now
works fine MBP 13"
anyway this game is too good to skip
must have spent two hours looking for one person not knowing he went some place else
still love this game...
what is the story about keys? When I first downloaded and pressed play I go a pop-up to copy the key it said the game would ask but never did hmmm
I have modded this game a lot. Play as a Dark Elf woman... best things about old PC games are the mods
cannot wait to get my hands on Witcher 2 in a year or so
that is the same chip I am running it on now
works fine MBP 13"
anyway this game is too good to skip
Smiles and Cries
Member
does this game have an original OT?
I wanted to find out what happens when you are killed in this game, searched but all the results are witcher 2
I wanted to find out what happens when you are killed in this game, searched but all the results are witcher 2
catapult37
Member
Can anyone give performance impressions on a Macbook Air 2011? I have the i5 with 4GB RAM. Intel HD graphics only (blah) but I expect it to be at least decent....
Castor Krieg
Banned
FFS, this is not Skyrim, dude. The game is based on a series of novels, the character of Geralt is essential to the story. Just play as him.
Playing on my late 2011 13" MBP, I found this ran appallingly, even on Medium settings. The very first fight in the Prologue was almost like a slideshow.
I've switched to running it in Boot Camp and have everything turned to High with no trouble at all. Pretty disappointing that even CD Projekt are happy to just put a game in a wrapper and call it a Mac version.
The game itself is still enjoyable though.
I've switched to running it in Boot Camp and have everything turned to High with no trouble at all. Pretty disappointing that even CD Projekt are happy to just put a game in a wrapper and call it a Mac version.
The game itself is still enjoyable though.
indigo-cyclops
Member
I did not know this RPG would have been so long... I am on act II and I am about to call for mercy... at times it fells like fetch quests lol and people complained about Wind Waker
must have spent two hours looking for one person not knowing he went some place else
still love this game...
what is the story about keys? When I first downloaded and pressed play I go a pop-up to copy the key it said the game would ask but never did hmmm
I have modded this game a lot. Play as a Dark Elf woman... best things about old PC games are the mods
cannot wait to get my hands on Witcher 2 in a year or so
that is the same chip I am running it on now
works fine MBP 13"
anyway this game is too good to skip
Why in the hell would you do that, honestly?
U n i o n 0015
Member
Sounds like Bootcamp might be the way to go. Good thing it's Steamplay.
edgefusion
Member
I just opened Steam to be greeted by an unreasonably whopping 1400mb update for The Witcher. Did anybody else get this and if so, wtf? I have a terrible internet connection and am therefore not particularly fond of gigantic updates springing themselves on me when I have no idea what they're for. 
indigo-cyclops
Member
I just opened Steam to be greeted by an unreasonably whopping 1400mb update for The Witcher. Did anybody else get this and if so, wtf? I have a terrible internet connection and am therefore not particularly fond of gigantic updates springing themselves on me when I have no idea what they're for.
My Steam is downloading what seems like the entire game. It was installed without a doubt, played it last week. Not sure what's happening here.
