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The Witcher 2: Performance Thread [Enhanced Edition Patch - New content & 100+ fixes]
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Alligatorjandro
Banned
I've installed it and its updating now but its been updating for like 20 minutes or so.Is this normal?
Inferno313
Banned
Just wondering, has anyone on the lower end of the minimum specs had a increase or decrease in performance with 1.3?
yellow submarine
Member
Steam version here. Looks like I did a good thing by denying the patch program UAC permission when starting up last night. Steam had already auto-download like 120 megs of stuff for the patch. But I didn't let the patcher run at all by denying it UAC privs. I hope that means it wasn't able to patch to 1.3.
The only wierd thing was that when I loaded up my save game, Geralt had no hands and feet! The models had just disappeared into thin air. I looked and it seemed that the gloves and boots from my inventory had disappared. That was wierd. I put on another pair and his hands/legs were back.
I might consider moving to the new patch when they get the no-weight mod working on 1.3, not before then for sure. Maybe when they have a hotfix out that fixes issues being seen by people here I will feel better about upgrading.
The only wierd thing was that when I loaded up my save game, Geralt had no hands and feet! The models had just disappeared into thin air. I looked and it seemed that the gloves and boots from my inventory had disappared. That was wierd. I put on another pair and his hands/legs were back.
I might consider moving to the new patch when they get the no-weight mod working on 1.3, not before then for sure. Maybe when they have a hotfix out that fixes issues being seen by people here I will feel better about upgrading.
I apologize for bringing this up again, but I am also having problems with pop-in / viewing distance. I changed the setting to ultra first (making sure that it is not read only) and then changed the user.ini. I tried setting Meshdistance and foliagedistance as high as 7.5. Currently I have them both changed back to 4.5, and I see no difference whatsoever.
Its not a huuuuge issue of course, but it is pretty noticeable, especially in Chapter 3. Sigh.
Its not a huuuuge issue of course, but it is pretty noticeable, especially in Chapter 3. Sigh.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
x3sphere said:
I'm really quite a rookie when it comes to editing ini files and what not. I'm running 1920X1080 native res and it's not longer available. Best I can get from the drop down is 1024x768. Can someone tell me what exactly to do here in the ini.
If it matters I'm running the steam version and haven't played in a while so when I launched it I was prompted to update to what I assume was 1.3
Thanks.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
Minsc said:
I can get into the file it's just once I am there I'm unsure what to change to get me back to 1920x1080 being an option.
I've tried changing the 'viewport' at the bottom to 1920x1080. No dice.
Now steam has decided to re-download 9 gigs worth of files.
x3sphere said:
RbBrdMan said:
I haven't got Witcher 2 installed right now, but I know 1.3 added support for many aspect ratios. In many games there can be two dropdowns, one for aspect ratio and then another for the resolution. In these cases it's possible you first have to select the proper aspect ratio and then the resolutions in the other dropdown menu change to reflect the selected aspect ratio.
I'm just guessing here, though.
Maleficence
Member
Are the ever going to patch the problem of often the default alchemy ingredient being the most rare one in your inventory? At least don't refresh the damn ingredients every time I make something so I have to move everything again!
wandering goat
Member
Minsc said:
The dithering maybe, but if he has the same problem as a few other people in this thread, the pop-in is because post-patch, the game won't recognize new configuration changes (for some people), and has set the mesh distance and texture memory way too low. I seriously hope this will be fixed soon.
[edit] Actually, I just now changed some settings again (bloom and resolution), and the game did change. I now think it's not that 1.3 doesn't recognize the settings, it's more like as if it simply has more pop-in for no discernible reason (unless it recognizes some variables and not others). Either way, pop in is ridiculous now where I never noticed anything wrong before the patch, and there's way more stuttering. I'm sure it wasn't like this before, as gameplay was really smooth and I never noticed textures / items 20 feet in front of me popping in out of nowhere before.
TheExodu5 said:
I played it through with the retail version (no patches) and it was amazing from start to finish. No problems, no glitches and the FPS was capping at 60 with vsync. Nothing bad to say.
But then again, the definition of a good engine should not be "it runs on my computer just fine", but rather "it should run on everyone's computer just fine" so you do have a point.
This is why we have licensed engines, like Unreal, to begin with. It's hard to develop a successful in-house engine without getting crazy support and interest from hardware manufacturers, like Unreal does.
It's been butchered. Sides are shaved off. (Ignore the untextured world, my game is set fairly low and this is at start up to get perfect comparisons so not everything has loaded)longdi said:
1680 x 1050
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/577803240016461639/115873BD4D34B7F24252763144BF4F32906AC7D4/
1920 x 1080
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/577803240016447142/90361EC752CBB8FFCC1023E8D71A4674B21E1517/
Are you in the game and it's doing that? There's black bars during the start up and loading screens for obvious reasons but in game they aren't there.zoner said:
I don't understand why you would say it's butchered.longdi said:
The way aspect ratios work in most other games, 4:3 gives the least amount of horizontal vision, 16:9 the most, 16:10 slightly less. This makes sense to me.
If you want 16:10 to give the same amount of horizontal space than 16:9, you'll have to play around with the field of vision. I'm not sure if that's possible in this game and I've never bothered to look since this patch seems to handle the issue properly.
Field of vision is almost never calculated by vertical space, why would they start here? It is VERY COMMON for videogames to have a slightly smaller FOV in 16:10 versus 16:9.
Typically, the vertical space in a videogame is identical across 4:3, 16:10 and 16:9. Only horizontal space changes.
If the developers followed your idea, where the vertical space dictated the absolute angle of vision, 4:3 would wind up showing more than the other two ratios. I doubt that's what you were looking for when you picked up a widescreen monitor.
Typically, the vertical space in a videogame is identical across 4:3, 16:10 and 16:9. Only horizontal space changes.
If the developers followed your idea, where the vertical space dictated the absolute angle of vision, 4:3 would wind up showing more than the other two ratios. I doubt that's what you were looking for when you picked up a widescreen monitor.
darkpaladinmfc
Member
So should 4:3 have the same horizontal space but more vertical space? Generally wider = more vision.Exuro said:
InternHertz
Member
My steam version finally worked when I reinstalled from the ground-up. At first the game booted up without patches at all (even after it automatically applied itself, weird). I arrived in Flotsam when I saw some new things were not where they were supposed to be (quests and the item storage).
So I re-applied the 1.3 patch and now it's working as it should be..almost.
Steam achievements seem to not work since the 1.3 patch...I tried drinking a potion to test and no achievement popped :/ And it seems I'm not the only one at all with that issue.
So I re-applied the 1.3 patch and now it's working as it should be..almost.
Steam achievements seem to not work since the 1.3 patch...I tried drinking a potion to test and no achievement popped :/ And it seems I'm not the only one at all with that issue.
Could someone confirm that the more save files you have the longer it takes to pull up the "Load Game" list of saves?
I swear that when I first installed and clicked "Load Game" the list would take a few moments to pull up. Now it is taking 30 to 40 seconds. I think it is because I have hundreds of saves. I just want to confirm I am not the only one thinking this.
I swear that when I first installed and clicked "Load Game" the list would take a few moments to pull up. Now it is taking 30 to 40 seconds. I think it is because I have hundreds of saves. I just want to confirm I am not the only one thinking this.
Of course it's due to the number of saves, which is why there's a save game manager: http://modsreloaded.com/savegame-manager
Ugh, these patches make things run better but come with some weird bugs when using mods. I couldn't work my 360 pad right because the patch had a conflict with the gui mod I was using and now I can't select anything when I bring up the weapon wheel, and I have no clue what mod if any is causing this to happen too.
nelsonroyale
Member
TheExodu5 said:
Its pretty spectacular looking game overall though...Of the recently released PC games, Crysis 2 is the only one that competes...and I would say the Witcher 2 beats it in textures and IQ overall
CecilRousso
Member
TheExodu5 said:
I agree. I´m playing it on a computer with a Core I7 720Q CPU and an ATI 5830 GPU, and the game struggles to give me a descent framerate even in 1280x720 resolution and everything set to low. I´m did not expect 60FPS in 1080p, but I expected much more than this.
CecilRousso said:
Drivers maybe?
I read posts like this and I wonder. Prior to upgrading my computer I ran the game on Low settings w/ vsync turned off with decent framerate. I bumped it up to Med just for a little better graphics and it was sluggish but tolerable.
That was with a E6600 core2duo, 4gigs of DDR2, GTX260
I upgraded to a i5 2500K (no OC yet), 8 gigs of DD3, same GTX260
Game auto-detected at High, I just turned off vsync again and started playing. Looks great, plays great. Game is MUCH smoother than even low was before I upgraded.