WineHQ

The Witcher

Enhanced Edition - 1.5 version

Application Details:

Version: 1.x Retail
License: Retail
URL: http://www.thewitcher.com
Votes: 91
Latest Rating: Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested: 7.0.1

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Test Results

Old test results
The test results you have selected are very old and may not represent the current state of Wine.
Selected Test Results

What works

  • Install of US version 1.4 (recently bought/downloaded from Atari)
  • Patching up to 1.5 (with some extra step, see below)
  • Videos, cut-scenes
  • Playing (Prologue)

What does not

Nothing except for :

  • the usual problem with Vitality/Endurance/Intoxication bars
  • Some graphic anomalies that may be related to my hardware: some models are malformed (Triss has problems with her breasts, and some characters have their fingers extending to the corner of the screen)

Workarounds

What was not tested

The game beyond the first scene of Chapter 1.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

  • GPU:
  • Driver:

Additional Comments

Here is whet I did (based on instructions from http://news.bigdownload.com/2009/07/31/download-the-witcher-directors-cut-patch/) : - Install version 1.4 downloaded from Atari (install works flawlessly) - Install Blood patch - Install EAX Hotfix - Install 1.5, I had to take these few extra steps : . uncompress the installer : wine TheWitcherPatch.1.5.exe /extract_all: . execute uncompressed installer - Install Director's cuts Patch ("adult" content) I've also modified my DirectX registry entries: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D] "DirectDrawRender"="opengl" "OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo" "PixelShaderMode"="enabled" "RenderTargetLockMode"="textex" "UseGLSL"="enabled" "VideoMemorySize"="256" But I didn't need to install any additional DLLs. Admin note: rating changed to conform to the rating definitions.

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?
RatingSubmitter
ShowLinux Mint 21Nov 12 20227.0.1Yes Yes YesGoldhalfpapp 
ShowFedora 29 x86_64Jan 17 20194.0-rc4-stagingYes Yes YesGoldalexandre 
ShowLinux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" x86_64Feb 11 20161.9.3Yes Yes NoGoldan anonymous user 
ShowLinux Mint 17 "Qiana"Sep 02 20151.7.45Yes Yes NoGoldan anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 12.04 "Precise" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Sep 24 20121.5.13Yes Yes NoBronzeGrzesiek 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
11285 Static characters on Nvidia 7xxx cards in Witcher CLOSED FIXED View
12771 Multiple graphic problems in "The Witcher" CLOSED FIXED View
15904 The Witcher: black screen at the main menu CLOSED DUPLICATE View
16831 Audible Manager fails to active device CLOSED FIXED View
18296 Applications seeing key-up events when keys auto-repeat (not a Wine bug) CLOSED INVALID View
22504 Bioshock: fog renders red CLOSED FIXED View
25244 The Witcher needs msvcp80.dll.?infinity@?$numeric_limits@M@std@@SAMXZ CLOSED FIXED View
25696 The Witcher: Characters draw weird "puppeteer's" lines CLOSED DUPLICATE View
27156 Bioshock demo: mouse jumps around menu CLOSED FIXED View
27358 The Witcher fails to run CLOSED FIXED View
27779 Desktop mouse pointer always visible in Steam games CLOSED FIXED View
30756 error, and white screens while playing Witcher: Enhanced edition. CLOSED INVALID View
34052 The Witcher: Character models are sometimes invisible CLOSED FIXED View
44254 The Witcher 1.5 (Platinum edition): launcher crashes on start UNCONFIRMED View

Show open bugs

HowTo / Notes

Settings to avoid invisible models and flickering

If you are hit by bug #34052 (invisible character models), or flickering, set this key in the registry as a workaround (it happens on closed Nvidia driver, and to some on Mesa / Intel. It didn't happen to me with Mesa / radeonsi):

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]
CheckFloatConstants="enabled"


Another similar issue is bug #46553 when some textures turn black indoors. For now, install  d3dx9_35 native override to work around that.

Comments

The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.

Avoiding the launcher.exe crash
by Ilya Trukhanov on Monday June 24th 2019, 15:00
It happens because of wine's internet explorer implementation (gecko). You can avoid the crash by installing any internet explorer version, for example with winetricks:

`winetricks -q ie6`

You need a 32-bit wineprefix for it to install, though.
Back