1st Witcher 2 review is IN!

Hey guys what do you think about the dragon armor is it worth that 2300 orens or should I build the draug armor? I'm in chapter 2

 

oh btw can someone rename this thread to Witcher 2 thread instead of it's current name? it's established itself as the main thread for the game and it's one of the top threads in the gaming section...

 

I installed these but is there any info on what these DLC do?

 

Does anyone know what happened to the Collectors edition? no one actually has it for sale. Amazon link takes you to the regular edition. Did they cancel it or what?

 

Ive just beat the wraiths and trolls missions, pretty easy if you got somehalf decent gear, geralt is getting pretty potent now.

Really good RPG i find, wasnt a huge fan of the first but this is pretty interesting.

 

whatever happened to having to loot for your gear? the dlc gave me a lot better armour than I had. I would appreciate it a lot more if I found it after a boss fight. lame.

 

OK, some people already know this, but you should know that configurator program is broken and do not set ultra options despite you selecting them.
You should open user.ini located in C:\Users\User name\Documents\Witcher 2\config and check if you settings are the same as this:


[Rendering]
AllowAntialias=1
AllowBloom=1
AllowBlur=1
AllowCutsceneDOF=1
AllowDOF=1
AllowDecals=1.0
AllowMotionBlur=1
AllowRain=1
AllowSSAO=1
AllowScatterDOF=1
AllowShafts=1
AllowSharpen=1
AllowVignette=1
AtlasTextureDownscale=0
DanglesLimiter=0
DetailTextureDownscale=0
Fullscreen=1
MaxAtlasTextureSize=4096
MaxCubeShadowCount=3
MaxCubeShadowSize=2048
MaxSpotShadowCount=3
MaxSpotShadowSize=2048
MaxTextureSize=2048
MeshDistanceScale=1.0
ShadowQuality=3
ShadowedLights=3
TextureDownscale=0
TextureMemoryBudget=1000
UberSampling=2
VSync=1

Pay special attention to TextureMemoryBudget because if it's set too low, there's some textures that don't load in the game. If you settings aren't the same as this, then you're not running at ultra.

 

Quen sign + dodging is good.

 

Well despite the original failing to hook me this one kept me glued to the laptop from start to finish, really enjoyed it, it looks amazing even on my hardware, ran great and had zero crashes during the entire play through.

Loved how the choices you make in this game felt like they were making much larger changes the following quests, characters and areas than they normally would in other rpg's, will definitely be giving this another playthrough with some radically different choices.

 

How does the game run on your laptop, and which setting have you turned off/on???

Just wanna know the level of performance my lappie will offer in this game.

 

Is "TextureMemoryBudget=1000" the right setting if you have 1gb memory on your gpu? Also does "UberSampling=2" mean ubersampling is off or on? If it means on, what number should I use to set it off?

 

Draut too hard to kill

About to give up on the game as cant kill this stupidly hard boss, draut.
Its such a stupid checkpoint(and boring)before it where it loads I just cant be assed to go through again and again just to get to the boss.
What the FU.. am I doing wrong!:bang:

 

Am I the only one who finds witcher 2 boring compared to the first one ? They completely ruined the combat in this one. You can't even drink potions in the prologue for crying out loud . On top of that, there are some very ridiculous bugs & animation glitches going on :3eyes:.

I've put off playing it for the time being.

 

I have everything set to Ultra except uber sampling and my file looks like this:


[Rendering]
AllowAntialias=1
AllowBloom=1
AllowBlur=1
AllowCutsceneDOF=1
AllowDOF=1
AllowDecals=1.0
AllowMotionBlur=1
AllowRain=1
AllowSSAO=1
AllowScatterDOF=1
AllowShafts=1
AllowSharpen=1
AllowVignette=1
AtlasTextureDownscale=0
DanglesLimiter=0
DetailTextureDownscale=0
Fullscreen=1
MaxAtlasTextureSize=4096
MaxCubeShadowCount=1
MaxCubeShadowSize=256
MaxSpotShadowCount=3
MaxSpotShadowSize=512
MaxTextureSize=2048
MeshDistanceScale=1.0
ShadowQuality=3
ShadowedLights=3
TextureDownscale=0
TextureMemoryBudget=400
UberSampling=0
VSync=1


I see differences in:
MaxCubeShadowSize (256, not 2048)
MaxCubeShadowCount (1, not 3)
MaxSpotShadowSize (512, not 2048)
TextureMemoryBudget (400, not 1000)

[Uber sampling is off so I believe 0 is fine]. But what about these 4 settings I listed. Do you know why they are different? BTW, my card had 1 Gb (x2) VRAM.

 

I'm about two hours into Act II but is level 30 the maximum because my XP is 30,151 yet the bar still shows as full between 29,000 to 30,000? I'd have expected it to read 30,000 to 31,000 and for there to be a tiny 151 bit filled in. Also I have only a third of the skills from the tree so it is disappointing to not be able to see many of them. If 30 is the max level then I presume I'm not far from the end as I've just rescued:

Spoiler

Triss.

I intend replaying the game once the second patch arrives this week but can you resume with Geralt using the same abilities as the previous endgame or does it reset to 0?

 

I'm on the Epilogue now and level 31 so it looks like what I saw before was a minor bug. So sad to be nearing the end though.

I've found a chest protected by a red magical shield but cannot work out the order of the runes to remove it. Anyone does this yet? I only found two of the four books to decipher the runes.

 

Just noticed I had decals at medium, they were set to high for the majority of the game, must have changed to medium when testing which settings had the biggest impact in fps and forgot to return it to high afterwards, I noticed no fps difference between high and medium.

Vignette also made no difference to fps I just don't like the effect, hated it in the killzone games too, but couldnt do anything about it there, same goes for motion blur, didn't really impact fps but again hated the effect.

With the above settings I was getting 25 - 35 fps which felt smooth enough for me to enjoy an rpg.

 

no bug there, just use ordered statistics xD.

Rune 1, rune 2 rune 3 rune 4
Rune 1 rune 2 rune 4 rune 3
Rune1 rune 3 rune 2 rune 4
rune1 rune3 rune4 rune 2
rune 1 rune4 rune 3 rune 2
rune1 rune4 rune2 rune3

Change rune1 4 times and you got it

If you are mad, you can use a paper to check which combo you did alrdy and put numers left to right and its done xD

Max 24 try , and use quen to protect yourself from failures.