Application Details:
| Version: | Steam |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.thewitcher.com/ |
| Votes: | 5 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 8.5 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
NPC, Quests, Shops, Save, Load Save, Pause, Menu, Combat, Signs, Horse, Inventory, Map, etc.
What does not
CD PROJEKT RED Launcher breaks if The Witcher doesn't launch right away, don't delay.
Workarounds
Use Winetricks to install dxvk173, mfc140, d3dx9, d3dx11_43, d3dcompiler_43
What was not tested
The Gwent card game has not been tested.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Steam has a graphical bug in the Library with dxvk, so before adding the Winetriks workaround, install The Witcher 3 in the Library, after installing it, proceed with Winetricks.
dxvk is to fix performance issue using Vulkan instead of default OpenGL rendering.
I tested the classic old version of The Witcher obtained through Steam version 1.32 you can change to this version through The Witcher property on Steam. It is likely that the remaster will also work.
When the CID Project RED launcher is opened change to directx 11 in the same launcher.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Current | Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Apr 04 2023 | 8.5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | aguamole | |
| Show | Manjaro Linux | Jul 30 2018 | 3.13-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Vladimir | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Jul 22 2018 | 3.13-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Mehmet Akif TASOVA | |
| Show | Gentoo Linux x86_64 | Mar 06 2018 | 3.3 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Kai Krakow | |
| Show | Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Nov 21 2017 | 2.21 | Yes | Yes | No | Bronze | Alexander Yakovlev |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 39180 | Witcher 3 Wild hunt Wine 1.7.50 not working | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 39885 | Cannot allocate more than 32gb of memory | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 42292 | The Witcher 3 fails to render correctly after starting a new game | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 42347 | The Witcher 3 starting menu is distorted [radeonsi] | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 42414 | The Witcher 3 intro videos don't play | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 42592 | The Witcher 3 has poor performance (buffer access flags are ignored) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 42863 | Multiple games require sample_c_lz for cube/array textures (Winexy, Witcher 3, Flame in the Flood) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 43131 | Multiple apps need correct shader translation for discard_z (The Witcher 3, Star Trek Online, .hack//G.U Last Recode) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 43133 | The Witcher 3: ambient occlusion distortions | NEW | View | |
| 43158 | The Witcher 3: dark opaque surface distortion | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 43160 | The Witcher 3: puppeteer lines appearing on character | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 43167 | Witcher 3 will not start | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 43239 | The Witcher 3: ground is too dark in some areas | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 43264 | The Witcher 3: Black and red face textures and missing vegetation | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 45577 | Skyrim tries to install MS VC Redist Package each launch | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 50379 | The Witcher 3 has broken rendering with Vulkan renderer | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
Currently with wined3d, The Witcher 3 is still affected by CPU-GPU buffer maps synchronization issue (bug #44315). It severely degrades performance.
Using dxvk instead of wined3d is the best course of action, since it performs very well, and also provides perfect rendering, as long as your Vulkan driver supports VK_EXT_transform_feedback extension.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
by Shawn on Sunday January 10th 2016, 17:48
by Guillaume Charifi on Thursday May 26th 2016, 15:02