| 20 MAY 2011 at 7:52pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Stiler (20 MAY 2011 7:46pm)
Geralt is voiced by the same guy from the first one. Triss on theother hand, sounds a lot younger, and isn't quite as cold as she was in the first one.
Ah, then it must just have started off with a bad recording. Well, i'm glad to hear that, and i hope he starts to sound more like the old Geralt soon! I fiddled with the sound settings, and sadly there's not a seperate one for voices, but it seems to be just Geralt that talks so softly. It does seem to improve as i go along, though.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 20 MAY 2011 at 8:21pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By placeholder (20 MAY 2011 7:48pm)
Good luck, CB. Maybe you have the same edition as I have? I have the hardcover comic book, and i also have some of those cut-out thingies you talk about, some manuals, a map, a fun "document", a coin, two bonus DVD's with soundtrack and so on, but not the bust. I also got a code for a downloadable special merchant.
Anyway, for the price i paid, that is reaaly superb packaging.
Well, I thought we did have the same edition, at least in name. Perhaps the content varies by region.
CB shakes the box one more time, alas no comic book drops to the floor.
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| 20 MAY 2011 at 10:02pm |
TechnoSpikePrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Sorry to hear about your health problems Trav! A few days ago it was the flu, and now this, geez!
Glad you can enjoy the Witcher now!
I'm just starting The Witcher 1 (Chapter 1) and I'm already regretting not having tried it out before!
Happy "Witching" to everyone! 8-)
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| 21 MAY 2011 at 10:51am |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By TechnoSpike (20 MAY 2011 10:02pm)
Sorry to hear about your health problems Trav! A few days ago it was the flu, and now this, geez!
Well, the flu medication I took made my undiagnosed ulcers worse, which caused me to overdose on anti-acids, which literally caused an obdominal obstruction which then had to be removed...
I'm just starting The Witcher 1 (Chapter 1) and I'm already regretting not having tried it out before!
The Witcher 1 is a very special game. ...and the combat is a welcome relief from the usual action button-mashing which The Witcher 2 seems to have decided to go back to. Anyway, I haven't played enough to really comment yet, the combo's could still be fun.
I have an extremely worrying problem now, though.. - whenerever i walk away from my PC with Witcher 2 paused, when i return, it seems that my system had in the meantime crashed, and i get an error message saying that my system is recovering from a serious error... :-?
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 21 MAY 2011 at 11:16am |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I'm starting to suspect this might be to do with the much-reviled autosave function. I see i have three autosaves in a row. Anyone know how to set autosave off?
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 21 MAY 2011 at 1:35pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Now it's crashed mid-game.. :'( I really think my system needs a bit of a clean-up...
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 21 MAY 2011 at 1:53pm |
DonaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | I don't think there's an option for that. Actually, this game has so little options it's not even funny. I hate the camera with passion, even with slowed mouse movements it gives me headaches. They were certainly making this game for consoles first and foremost :/
Have you tried lowering the settings, Trav? It might help.
Here, have a screenshot. I'm having a bad case of wanting to replay The Longest Journey, so I tried to make it look like a raven was sitting on his shoulder. [s]This is why I'll never get past the Prologue[/s].
[img]http://i.min.us/i4Uag.jpg[/img]
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| 21 MAY 2011 at 2:15pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I think I'll buy a new GPU tomorrow and see if that helps. I'm not going to criticize the game too much until i get further into it, but there was a lot about the first game that i liked more so far. I'm not finding the camera a problem so far though.
I know by now that sequels shouldn't be judged too closely according to their predecessors, but there are games in which i found the sequels as good or even better ...
Divine Divinity 2 comes to mind, for instance. I loved the sequel to DD1, and I even aim to replay that with the expansion set.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 21 MAY 2011 at 2:31pm |
DonaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By placeholder (21 MAY 2011 2:15pm)
I'm not going to criticize the game too much until i get further into it, but there was a lot about the first game that i liked more so far. I'm not finding the camera a problem so far though.
I know by now that sequels shouldn't be judged too closely according to their predecessors, but there are games in which i found the sequels as good or even better ...
Yeah, same, to be honest it took me a little to really fall in love with the first game. I'm not giving up on TW2, but a top-down camera like in the first one would've been nice. I have zero sense of space and the game often feels like a maze to me :C
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| 21 MAY 2011 at 3:11pm |
| Deleted User | Only have a minute but wanted to say I'm loving this game though taking a little while to get used to combat tatics. I'm running on vista 64bit and found the following to make the game run smooth as silk, for me anyways:
1. disabled ubersampling
2. UAC off
3. mousesensitivity to 0
4. using the latest nvidia beta driver (275.27)
5. run the executable as administrator
Happy Gaming.
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| 21 MAY 2011 at 4:28pm |
| Deleted User | Been fooling around with the mouse sensitivity and with it set to zero it's apparent that my bottleneck is definitely with the CPU. I guess they weren't kidding around about the recommended system requirements. :-/
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| 21 MAY 2011 at 5:07pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Camaroboy1968 (21 MAY 2011 4:28pm)
Been fooling around with the mouse sensitivity and with it set to zero it's apparent that my bottleneck is definitely with the CPU. I guess they weren't kidding around about the recommended system requirements. :-/
You having performance issues? Oh, well. With Arcania already I suspected I'm going to have to upgrade for games like this and Hammerfell.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 21 MAY 2011 at 6:06pm |
StilerJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Trav what video card are you running?
There are some known issues with the game and certain ones. On NVidia make sure you have 3d vision off,
http://linearskillz.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/the-witcher-2-performance-issue-on-nvidia-cards/
For ATI, there is known issues with crossfire and things. Try running the game in windowed mode if it's giving you any problems, it's supposed to help with things for ati cards. Atiis working on a special witcher 2 hotfix to push out soon.
Also make sure Ubersampling is OFF. This is the thing that even brings top of the line computer sdown. It's a future-proof graphic ability and if it's on, it is the main thing that will cripple your fps.
I also turn AA off and SSAO is also another major FPS hitter if your comp can't handle it (though SSAO adds a lot of the ambience/atmosphere look of the game).
For those of you having some mouse issues, I had the slow/lagged mouse problem, you need to edit your ini to fix this.
Just go to documents>witcher 2>config>user.ini. In here find "smoothness" and change the "1" to a "0"
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| 21 MAY 2011 at 6:38pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I'm already using all the lowest possible settings. :'( but I guess I'm going to have to upgrade - I have no choice...
I have an Nvidia 9800GTX, but the problem is that it only has 500Mb RAM...
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 22 MAY 2011 at 1:01am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By placeholder (21 MAY 2011 5:07pm)
You having performance issues? Oh, well. With Arcania already I suspected I'm going to have to upgrade for games like this and Hammerfell.
Performance issues perhaps, as I’m currently still running the popular E8400 processor. With a Windows experience index subscore of 5.7 it lags well behind all other component ratings. Might also explain why auto detect automatically suggests medium detail. GPU currently installed is an XFX ATI Radeon HD6870 1 GB DDR5 which some say is good bang for the buck. Game runs decent enough on high settings but can drop below 30fps on ultra (custom -ubersampling).
Originally Posted By Stiler (21 MAY 2011 6:06pm)
For those of you having some mouse issues, I had the slow/lagged mouse problem, you need to edit your ini to fix this.
Just go to documents>witcher 2>config>user.ini. In here find "smoothness" and change the "1" to a "0"
Easy enough. Thanks that seems to help a lot.
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| 22 MAY 2011 at 1:58am |
JKingSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I have a Radeon HD 6950, and it runs pretty well at medium quality, but I'm finding, overall, that I get better results by just picking my own settings, making value judgements as to what I want. Starting from low quality I enabled bloom, light shafts, depth of field, rain effects, medium decals and vsync, and it still looks quite nice while having smooth framerate. I plan to tweak as I go along to find the right balance.
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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| 22 MAY 2011 at 9:39am |
InesrocksPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | I just returned from a field trip in Ethiopia and I just realized...
WHat?? The Witcher 2 is out?? Omg omg!!11!11
I guess ill have to leave DA:2 behind, Geralt is far more important to me than a fight against the Qun (or whatever it was that I doing last time I played the game..). On that note, I have not touched it for more than one month, I'm simply not motivated to finish it...I've been playing Black Mirror 2 instead..
Playing: Skyrim (ongoing)
Last Finished: can't recall, been too long.
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| 22 MAY 2011 at 10:30am |
DonaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Ugh I'm on the verge of trashing this game into recycle bin. The combat is too hard, I'm incredibly annoyed by Geralt's slow response. I have to press Block attack button SEVERAL TIMES before it works, same for rolling and casting signs. Dumb slow animation.
dkaldlajdklajdkjdkajdlk
Hmpf.
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| 22 MAY 2011 at 10:46am |
InesrocksPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Donna (22 MAY 2011 10:29am)
Ugh I'm on the verge of trashing this game into recycle bin. The combat is too hard, I'm incredibly annoyed by Geralt's slow response. I have to press Block attack button SEVERAL TIMES before it works, same for rolling and casting signs. Dumb slow animation.
dkaldlajdklajdkjdkajdlk
Hmpf.
wait! so.. I shouldnt be excited??
awww, I can't stand more dissapointments... :-[
Playing: Skyrim (ongoing)
Last Finished: can't recall, been too long.
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| 22 MAY 2011 at 10:48am |
DonaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | It's probably just me, I don't see anyone else complaining about the combat The rest of the game is fine, I'm just very impatient and want to shoot things after two game overs.
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| 22 MAY 2011 at 11:25am |
InesrocksPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Donna (22 MAY 2011 10:48am)
It's probably just me, I don't see anyone else complaining about the combat The rest of the game is fine, I'm just very impatient and want to shoot things after two game overs.
Uff.. I can breath then! Usually the combat is what takes longer for me to adapt to, sometimes it gets frustrating but once you can master the basic techniques its no longer a problem! By the way, setting the difficulty to easy is something im used to rely upon as a way to keep playing.. especially when the combat requires much strategy, which I'm not good at.
Hopefully in a couple of days ill be able to share my comments on the game with you!
Playing: Skyrim (ongoing)
Last Finished: can't recall, been too long.
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| 22 MAY 2011 at 12:07pm |
DonaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Well I just discovered bombs and got used to Character/Items screen, that made it a bit easier I'm playing on Normal.
Here to say... oh my God, the Metal Gear Solid references! I AM GOING CRAZY WITH JOY. MY TWO FAVOURITE GAMES COLLIDING. AAAAAAA.
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| 22 MAY 2011 at 12:09pm |
JKingSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Metal Gear Solid references? Really?
Dona, when you were trying to block, did you have vigour available? If you have no vigour you cannot block. Stupid, but true.
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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| 22 MAY 2011 at 12:57pm |
DonaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | FFFFF. I don't know. But that kind of explains it!
Yeah, the sneaking part in the dungeons. A lot of imagery is straight from MGS I'll compile a few pictures later on.
EDIT: And by 'later on' I mean now.
Spoiler Alert
Chained, shirtless (Naked Snake is also shirtless during MGS3 torture scene).
[img]http://i.min.us/icTyo.jpg[/img]
This is very reminiscent of MGS 'sneaking' angles and Geralt is animated similarly to Snake. I guess it makes more sense if you played the game.
[img]http://i.min.us/icV6w.jpg[/img]
It's just a bunch of small animations and camera angles to hint back at MGS
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