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The Witcher

The latest Steam version.

Application Details:

Version: Steam
License: Retail
URL: http://www.thewitcher.com
Votes: 1
Latest Rating: Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested: 3.4

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Test Results

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What works

So far everything seems to work just fine.

What does not

without CMST i got some weird artifact list in my last test.

Workarounds

had to enable CSMT

What was not tested

anything past starting area

Hardware tested

Graphics:

  • GPU: Nvidia
  • Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

Q9550 @ 3.85

GTX 770 4GB
Nvidia Prop 384.111
Lubuntu 16.04 64bit

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Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?
RatingSubmitter
ShowSolusApr 02 20183.4Yes Yes YesGoldAndrew 
CurrentUbuntu 16.04 "Xenial" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jan 11 20182.21-stagingN/A Yes YesGoldcdoublejj 
ShowUbuntu 16.04 "Xenial" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Dec 09 20172.21-stagingN/A Yes NoBronzecdoublejj 
ShowManjaro LinuxJun 24 20161.9.11Yes Yes Goldan anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 13.10 "Saucy" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Nov 10 20131.7.6Yes Yes BronzeKonrad Materka 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
40308 The Witcher - mouse clicks stop working after some time UNCONFIRMED View

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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

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frequent crashs when autosave on
by Fab on Tuesday April 16th 2019, 6:44
I'm currently playing The Witcher Enhanced Edition from Steam for the first time.
I'm using wine staging 4.5 and nvidia-drivers. With default parameters, the game was crashing very often.
From [1] I discovered that the game is randomly crashing, even on windows, often when (auto)saving.
I turned off auto-saving feature in game parameters, and since I did it, I was able to play the game several hours without crash. You'll then have to remember to save regularly your progression.

1. witcher.fandom.com/wiki/The_Witcher_bugs
Crash on save with Russian language
by dev_random on Saturday January 12th 2019, 16:19
I faced with reproducible crashes on attempt to save the game (Russian language. English works fine)

Solution:
1. uncomment 'ru_RU.UTF-8' in /etc/locale.gen
2. sudo locale-gen
3. sudo reboot
4. modify game launch options in steam client: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 %command%

Run the game. Russian language, no crashes!
Fixing graphics on NVidia cards
by Robert Munteanu on Tuesday March 15th 2016, 14:51
Applicable to wine 1.9.5 or newer

If you are using an NVidia card and see corrupt graphics, for instance

- invisible characters with only eyes and mouths drawn
- mostly correct characters with polygons running out of them

You need to set the HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D/CheckFloatConstants registry key to "enabled".

See bug 34052 for more details.
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