DRM free version from www.gog.com. Released on the 17th of May, 2011.
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What works
Installation, gameplay
What does not
Nothing so far
What was not tested
Constantly gameplay as i only tryed the GoG-Version out.
Additional Comments
Runs quiet good.
Im not able to say if it runs out of the box cause i installed d3d and vcrun with winetricks BEFORE starting the installation.
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Installation:
1.) create a new WINEPREFIX - youre not need to do that. Im always install new games/programs into a fresh and clean wineprefix
2.) env WINEPREFIX=~/PATH/TO/YOUR/FRESH&CLEAN/WINEPREFIX/ winetricks vcrun2010 d3dx10
3.) env WINEPREFIX=~/PATH/TO/YOUR/FRESH&CLEAN/WINEPREFIX/ wine /PATCH/TO/YOUR/WITCHER_2_SETUP.EXE - here the GoG-installer selfupdate your game to the given patch, which was 1.3 for me.
After that i got some trouble with the Launcher.exe in my /gamepath which is linked to the Desktopsymbol.
He told me that:
err:module:import_dll Library mfc100u.dll
is not found which is definitely a part of vcrun2010 which we installed in step 2.) ^^
So i created my own Desktop entry and linked directly to the witcher2.exe in the /bin path of my installation. This worked good for me.
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Gameplay:
Awesome! I can run the game on very high settings without any problems. Runs absolutely smooth. I can not agree with the test result before with lower wineversions where you got performance trouble.
I also DONT disabled useGLSL, for me its not needed as the game plays all videos and whatever.
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Systeminformation:
CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 3.4
GPU: ATI RADEON HD 6990 of course with the latest catalyst installed (i guess at this time it must be 12.3)
SuSE 11.4 64b kernel 2.6.37.6-0.11-desktop x86_64
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Wine 1.5.9 breaks the game?
by Dominik on Tuesday July 24th 2012, 7:51
Hi,
I just got a new gfx card (Geforce 550 Ti) and am testing Witcher 2 EE from GOG and everything is covered in a haze (gray in the dungeon at the start, blue outside) so that almost nothing can be seen. This happens at all image settings.
All that's changed from my previous test (where the image was fine, but the game ran very slow) is the GFX card and, of course, the version of Wine. I don't think the card has anything to do with it.
Update on .NET 4.0
by Jonathan on Sunday April 29th 2012, 20:56
If you're not concerned with Arena Scores (which don't seem to work currently anyway if you follow my directions for getting the EE installed) then your best bet is this patch:
It removes the need for .NET 4.0 entirely, however the Launcher and Register programs will still no longer function. Also it removes any possibility of using Arena for anything other than quick entertainment.
Loading times
by Pavel on Monday April 23rd 2012, 16:02
I am trying fresh installation GOG EE version. At beginning, it was great, but after exiting and another starting in prologue, I have problems. Loading saved positions or creating new game takes forever. Disc didn't work, memory is free and processor is idling.
It wasn't just second run, because I run it in tutorial more times with different settings (small mouse lag in few menus).
Any help?
Patch 2.1 breaks game
by Jonathan on Monday January 9th 2012, 22:23
Patch 2.1 (which only has a small change to the netcode for arena uploads) breaks the game. The issue is that it requires .NET 4.0 which currently doesn't work at all in Wine. If you install this update you'll be required to install the "Critical Rebuild" patch to bring the game back to version 2.0.
Wildly Inconsistent Frame Rates
by Sebastian Mikulec on Sunday June 19th 2011, 18:56
The frame rates for The Witcher 2 are all over the place. I'm running a Phenom II 965 @ 3.9 GHz and a GeForce GTX460 @ 825 MHz and in certain parts of the game it runs extremely slow even on the lowest settings, nearly unplayably so. In other parts of the game I can run Ultra setting minus Ubersampling and it runs like a champ. This is at 1920x1200. Note: I also disable Motion Blur, but not for performance reasons, I just prefer the game without the effect, and I also disable Cinematic Depth of Field, again not for performance reasons, but since it causes a glitch in up close conversations where the whole screen goes black and there is only an outline of the person you are speaking to. Also this is running the game patched to 1.2.
Just something I forgot to mention in the test data. The launcher itself may not work, but you can configure settings by running bin/configurator.exe and run the game with bin/witcher2.exe. The launcher does in fact work for me now, though it didn't run initially, but I'm not sure what changed.
