The Witcher

hi anyone,
im playing the witcher (.de version) since around three days without many problems (healthbar etc), but today (the first time) some strange drawing problems for the charakters came, look here:
omploader.org/vMXZmOQ

Anyone got the same experience?

Yes. If restarting the game doesn't help restart the X server. It worked for me.

after some research i found out that the error is only if i pm-hibernate my computer while the witcher is still running.
tried also a x server restart, worked fine.

I can confirm that the game is fully playable under wine. I play the game with the lower configuration on an intel core 2 duo 7500 with a geforce 8600m gt (on acer aspire 5920g) from the start to the end without problems (fps min~20 and max~60). Great game, great wine.

I played the main game though using the 1.2 fixed exe.
These are the bugs I encountered.
1) Status bars for health, EX and toxicity didn't show (For some reason endurance worked fine.)
2) Using a Catseye potion caused the screen to "split". It would show the left half of the screen , split and show the left half again.
3) Once in a while changing zones would cause the game to hang.
4) When doing the bank quest in chapter 3, while talking to the elf downstairs, my hair disappeared, and the game got very slow until I left the bank.
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Having finished the game, I would love to try the "extras". Anyone know if there is a 1.3 fixed exe out there at all? Or one in the works? Or, if there is any way to get Tages to work under wine?

They said that the copy protection will be removed with 1.3.

I don't know. But either way, my computer wouldn't run the 1.3 exe. Could just have been a config issue I guess. I removed the game to get back space, so I can't play with it ATM. After I finish the one I am playing now, I will put it back and try it out. Maybe by then the expansion scenario will be done.

I think you can play version 1.3 with the 1.2 No cd crack.

I seem to have a completely different issue menu-wise.

Ubuntu 8.04.1 - 2.6.24-19-generic kernel - x86_64 - nvidia 173.14.05 drivers (although it was happening on the 169.12 as well).

The game installs, and patches just fine - but the Launcher doesn't appear at all, ever. I can see it via wmctrl:
0x0380000d 2 888 404 392 621 beastiary The Witcher game launcher

I can see the silhouette in my workspace switcher, and alt-tab gives an outline for it - but there's nothing visible or click-able on the screen. I do have directx 9.0c (Nov 2007) installed (long list of libraries I have to flag native or builting-only).

No clue how to work around it yet. Any clues?

Hello,
If you want to use the launcher, you need a native gdiplus.dll
The game should start if you change to path "System" in the witcher directory and launch the witcher.exe
Regards

You have tha same ?
I can't get to load game because of that.
I have nice menu with fonts.

Menu get working for me.
AMD Athlon64 x2 4000+, PLD Linux arch athlon, wine 0.9.58,2GB RAM

I have installed game in this few points:
1. rm -rf ~/.wine
2. wineboot
3. winecfg - choose win2k
4. sh winetricks vcrun2005sp1 (or w/o sp1 it's the same)
For me it was badly installed And I have copied that data from real XP so now works without errors about "Microsoft.VC80.CRT" and msvcr80.dll ...

$ ls -l ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/winsxs/
razem 52
drwxr-xr-x 2 uzi users 4096 mar 29 23:41 manifests
drwxr-xr-x 7 uzi users 4096 mar 29 21:06 Policies
drwxr-xr-x 2 uzi users 4096 mar 29 20:56 x86_Microsoft.VC80.ATL_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.42_x-ww_6e805841
drwxr-xr-x 2 uzi users 4096 mar 29 11:52 x86_Microsoft.VC80.ATL_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.762_x-ww_cbb27474
drwxr-xr-x 2 uzi users 4096 gru 18 2006 x86_Microsoft.VC80.CRT_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.163_x-ww_681e29fb
drwxr-xr-x 2 uzi users 4096 lis 30 14:23 x86_Microsoft.VC80.CRT_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.42_x-ww_0de06acd
drwxr-xr-x 2 uzi users 4096 mar 29 11:52 x86_Microsoft.VC80.CRT_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.762_x-ww_6b128700
drwxr-xr-x 2 uzi users 4096 mar 29 20:56 x86_Microsoft.VC80.MFC_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.42_x-ww_dec6ddd2
drwxr-xr-x 2 uzi users 4096 mar 29 11:52 x86_Microsoft.VC80.MFC_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.762_x-ww_3bf8fa05
drwxr-xr-x 2 uzi users 4096 mar 29 20:56 x86_Microsoft.VC80.MFCLOC_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.42_x-ww_3415f6d0
drwxr-xr-x 2 uzi users 4096 mar 29 11:52 x86_Microsoft.VC80.MFCLOC_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.762_x-ww_91481303
drwxr-xr-x 2 uzi users 4096 mar 29 20:56 x86_Microsoft.VC80.OpenMP_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.42_x-ww_0ee63867
drwxr-xr-x 2 uzi users 4096 mar 29 11:52 x86_Microsoft.VC80.OpenMP_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.762_x-ww_6c18549a

4a. have installed directx as described here: jarzebski.pl/read/wine-directx-9-0c.so
It's look like with and without dx9.0c have tha same errors.
5. wine setup.exe # have installed game v 1.0
6. wine TheWitcherPatch_1.1a.exe # also patch to v1.1a but on 1.2 it is the same
Cant get real nocd 1.2 for this game -hc.dll patch doesnt work for me.
7. moved nocd exec to System dir in game folder.
8. run flowlesly with all problems from topic.

Thanks for feedback.

Forget GFX Card : Radeon X1950 Pro with latest drivers 8.03

When I am in the menu, the mouse pointer doesn't show up. Also when in the keybinding section, the keys don't show up either. Any idea on how this could be fixed?

Hi,
I played a bit with the graphic settings of this game. It looks for me, like the "lightquality" setting has some problems with wine. I set it to the very highest position and the performance is very very bad. On mid position it is fine. (lowering anti-aliasing gave a performance boost, too)
With FarCry I have issues with the lightquality, too. On highest setting, some models (NPCs, vehicles and ladders) cannot be seen. On middle lightquality I can see them.
I cannot draw a direct connection here but can the lightquality be possibly the performance killer here?
(I do not know how this behaves in windows). But the issue with FarCry seemed to confirm this for me...

I am afraid, how the enhanced patch tomorrow might improve the performance. According to a flyer by CD-Project it should be available tomorrow.

Hi,
Does anyone here know what Font The Witcher uses? I installed the game successfully and patched it to 1.2. But in the main menu I get no text displayed. I only can see some animated buttons if i move the mouse but not text.
The package msttcorefonts is installed on my ubuntu.

I've got the same problem, maybe someone knows fix for this issue?

Click on regsetup.exe ;-)

I don't have that file in my witcher's directory or on dvd. Maybe u could upload it and give a link to that file? I would be really glad.

There it is: www.megaupload.com/it/?d=F7YJ2K57
Hope it works... let it me know :-)

Nope, it does not work. And I do not really understand what this file should do.

The Terminal gives me:
mcflow@errorkiste:/media/sdb1/witcher$ wine regsetup.exe
fixme:ntoskrnl:KeInitializeTimerEx 0x110ad8 0
FILE NOT FOUND.

REGSetup V1.0 coded by Kranf.

usage: REGSetup [filename]
[filename]: The data (reg file) to fusion to the registry. If
this parameter is not specified, the default filename
'regsetup.txt' will be used.

REGSetup is a replacement tool for 'regedit'. However, there is a
small difference with 'regedit': REGSetup replace all the '%d'
inside the key values with the current directory.

Looks like you have a problem to download it...
but i have tried and i can download it!
I guess you must retry to download it;-)
After you have that file you must put it in "the witcher" main folder and click on it... i had same problem, no font in menus and no voice in game, after 2 click on "regsetup.exe" everything go in place!!

It also didn't work for me but I edited registry manually. I had to add following entries to registry (by using regedit)


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CD Projekt Red]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CD Projekt Red\The Witcher]
"InstallFolder"="C:\Program Files\The Witcher"
"Language"="5"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CD Projekt Red\The Witcher\1.00.0000]

I have polish version of the witcher, so maybe u should change value for "Language"

And now it works?or still does'not working?
If is not i think you have to re download it :-(

Editing registry manually(as I posted above) solved the problem and now i have the text in the menu and in the whole game.

If u ask about regsetup.exe, i can't download it again because megaupload got limit of connections for my country.

"...i can't download it again because megaupload got limit of connections for my country."
If you want to download again from megaupload you have just to disconnect and reconnect to internet;-)

I could download it, but it complained about a missing file that regsetup.exe needs.
I am not very familiar with the wine regedit. Can someone give me a hint on how to add the keys correctly?

Copy this:

--------cut here-------------

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CD Projekt Red]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CD Projekt Red\The Witcher]
"InstallFolder"="C:\Program Files\The Witcher\"
"Language"="5"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CD Projekt Red\The Witcher\1.00.0000]

------------cut here---------------

paste it in any text editor and save witch .reg extension. Then run regedit by typing regedit in terminal. Click on registry -> import and select your .reg file that you just have created.

PS. You might need to change the value for language, because I have polish version of witcher and 5 might be for polish language.

PS. Also InstallFolder can be changed if you have witcher in different directory.

Hahahaha, could have got this idea on my own :D
That did the trick, thanks. Language must be 10 for german.
Thank you very very much.

No problem, I'm happy that I could help.

8800GT works withouth ragdoll effect

I'm getting an error box "Warning: minimum system requirements not met" when starting this game. After choosing OK, wine just closes.

Last messages were:

fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 0 0x1aaf874 4
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x1aaea58,0x00000000), stub!

Any ideas?

Please give us more information about your wine and system.
The game is very difficult to run under some graphic cards and some wine versions.

Latest wine - version 0.9.54
gfx card is an NVidia 7600GT 256Mb

(would it help if I paste my Xorg.conf?)

Thanks,
Pedro

Thanks, that should be enough for the moment.


Please use 0.9.52, 54er makes trouble with the witcher (on my system it will not start with this version any longer).

Please tell my too your nvidia-driver version.

I'll try 0.9.52 and I'll post the results

How can I check my nvidia driver version?

Ok, good luck.


There is a GUI-Tool shipped with the driver, in this tool (sorry, don't know the name yet) you can get the driver version.

Thanks found it: 100.14.23

Ok, very old driver. ;-)
Please install 169.09 and retest it.

Now with drivers 169.09

fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 0 0x1aaf874 4
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x1aaea58,0x00000000), stub!

Same error I believe :)

Same error with 0.9.52

Ok, sorry have no more ideas.

I installed this weekend witcher under 52 and 54, there were no problems.

I heve the same problem.
wine ver. 0.9.59
nvidia-drivers 169.09
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6100 nForce 430 (rev a2)

add to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D
new string value "VideoMemorySize"=512
where 512 your graphics card memory in MB
more info: wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys

And don't you see things like this: img299.imageshack.us/img299/4263/screenshot24kn4.png ?

I installed 1.2, with noCD, with that directx dll file, and everything works, but it looks like this. Characters are not moving (they're shadows do)

No, it's all displayed right.

Have a look at here:

www.file-upload.net/view-606846/Screenshot.png.html
www.file-upload.net/view-606849/Screenshot-1.png.html
www.file-upload.net/view-606850/Screenshot-2.png.html
www.file-upload.net/view-606852/Screenshot-5.png.html
www.file-upload.net/view-606853/Screenshot-6.png.html
www.file-upload.net/view-606854/Screenshot-7.png.html
www.file-upload.net/view-606856/Screenshot-9.png.html
www.file-upload.net/view-606858/Screenshot-10.png.html

Hmm.... I tried to copy d3dx9_35.dll from my windows xp sp2 dir, and from some page found by google, but I still have this rag doll effect.

What files did you copy to ./wine/drive_c/windows/system32 to make it working?

Maybe it's some issue with my card. What graphic card do you have? What linux driver do you use for it?

Hi


Only this dll file. From a page where I found through google.


I have a nvidia GeForce 8600GTS with driver 169.07.

Eh... I upgraded my nvidia driver to latest 169.07 with Envy (I was using the Ubuntu 7.10 one, 96.x :/)

but it didn't help. I have GeForce 7800 GT, and latest Wine (0.9.53), and still the same problem :(

I'll try to recompile wine with new drivers. We'll see...

And what distro do you use?

Gentoo AMD 64, I've update to 0.9.53 works too fine.

Ehh... still not sure what's wrong with my system then (I got confirmation of the ragdoll issue from other testers in Witcher 1.0 discussion, so it's not exclusively my problem).

I have:
- Ubuntu 7.10
- Wine 0.9.53 (tested a package and self compiled)
- Latest Nvidia drivers via Envy
- GeForce 7800 GT
- Witcher 1.2 with noCD.

and the game works fine beside of this characters not moving problem. :/

Do you have the Russian 1.2 crack? when not get it from gamecopyworld.

maybe the your crack is not good.


btw: How is the performance on your system?

Yes, I have the crack from gamecopyworld.

the performance is pretty much ok. It could have been better, but it works rather smooth.

It could be an issue with 7xxx cards, I have a 7900gs and am experiencing the same issue.My specifications:

Gentoo AMD64
Wine 0.9.53
Nvidia-drivers 100.14.19
Geforce 7900GS
Witcher 1.2 + russian 1.2 crack

Game runs slower than windows at medium settings, about 18-30 fps during the first battle, with it being more like 30-50 fps on windows.This is just by eyeballing it though, don't know if there is an in game fps counter and don't think there is anything like fraps for linux.

Also I had to set lighting to "low" otherwise I get a black screen with only the hud visible, probably uses HDR on medium and higher settings which IIRC is unsupported with wine.

I have no problem to run Witcher 1.2 on high details.

Beside of the rag doll issue :)

"It could be an issue with 7xxx cards, I have a 7900gs and am experiencing the same issue."

Yep, you can add my 7600GT to the list of cards having that "rag dolls" problem. I've read all comments to 1.0 version, and it really seems you're right:

Known "rag dolls" cards:
7600GT
7800GT
7800GTX
7900GS

Known "noproblem" cards:
8600GTS (two different people!)

Wouter Cox has 8800GTS 640MB and also didn't write about having "rag doll" problem, though he has low frame rate...

>Known "noproblem" cards:
>8600GTS (two different people!)

I think I am doing something wrong here. I have an 8600GTS, too running the 169.07 driver.
The game runs terribly slow, but no rag dolls.

The problem is that Witcher is using hardware skinning of characters, but it's not supported on older cards. DirectX manages by emulating it in software.
I've found references to 'g_cAuroraSettings.m_bPerformHardwareSkinning' in the witcher.exe file, but trying to set it to false in the scripts brought no results. The non-compiled (.lua) scripts are loaded first, so if you could do something like:

global.lua:
include('global.luc')
g_cAuroraSettings.m_bPerformHardwareSkinning = false

then maybe it could work (providing that software skinning is implemented in the engine). Or maybe try to decompile one of the scripts and set the skinning to false at the end.