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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What works
Installation, gameplay (see comments below!)
What does not
Health & Toxicity bars. Health bars for enemies.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Finishing the game, only played through to the start of Chapter III currently.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
After initial installation and clicking "ok" for DirectX installation, everything worked fine for a couple hours into the first game. After re-starting the game after a crash, though, I got the "transparent character" problem (Nvidia Geforce GTX 550Ti) see http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=27360, the tips in http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12771#c33 didn't help (they might for you, worth a try!), neither would `nvidia-settings --load-config-only`. I've resorted to start Steam under its own X-server for this game, which does work, like (from a real text-console, not a graphical shell!): 'env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-witcher wine /path/to/Steam.exe -- :1'. Gives me the "puppeteer lines" sometimes, but if it does, a re-start of the game (not Steam or the X-server) fixes that.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Solus | Apr 02 2018 | 3.4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Andrew | |
| Show | Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jan 11 2018 | 2.21-staging | N/A | Yes | Yes | Gold | cdoublejj | |
| Show | Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Dec 09 2017 | 2.21-staging | N/A | Yes | No | Bronze | cdoublejj | |
| Show | Manjaro Linux | Jun 24 2016 | 1.9.11 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Nov 10 2013 | 1.7.6 | Yes | Yes | No | Bronze | Konrad Materka |
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.
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by Fab on Tuesday April 16th 2019, 6:44
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
by dev_random on Saturday January 12th 2019, 16:19
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!
by Robert Munteanu on Tuesday March 15th 2016, 14:51
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.