The Witcher 2 - Thread

Paul_cz · 29 May 2011 at 13:12

There are more references like that, hilarious :-)

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tronath · 29 May 2011 at 14:18

Yeah that was funny. I like Saskia's sense of humor too

tom113 · 29 May 2011 at 16:05

Pretty sure I remember Ioveth mention lembas bread too

sammo62 · 29 May 2011 at 16:13

Buckster said:
no stutter here -which gfx card?

5870.

Chubb · 29 May 2011 at 16:34

Im having a problem where part of the audio cuts out (music and some of the dialogue). Anyone having similar problems? on a creative xfi audio and 5.1 speakers

RavenXXX2 · 29 May 2011 at 16:50

Just finished it, amazing gaming experience with some of the most humorous dialog ever in a game, roll on witcher 3.

Paul_cz · 29 May 2011 at 16:52

I really hope this game sells well on PC and proves PC only development can be profitable in AAA space.

Shamikebab · 29 May 2011 at 17:05

The lighting and weather changes when you walk through doors in this game are really jarring, makes it seem a bit amateur.

I was walking in the forest, pouring with rain...walked through the door into the town and suddenly it was a sunny evening :confused:

Paul_cz · 29 May 2011 at 18:01

Weird, I never had change of weather like that.

But I saw change of lighting when going from forest to town.

Fenris · 29 May 2011 at 18:02

Paul_cz said:
Weird, I never had change of weather like that.

But I saw change of lighting when going from forest to town.

Same for me, I've noticed the lighting completely changing however weather effects like rain have always persisted.

dmcg · 29 May 2011 at 18:10

finally finished on hard I won't post any spoilers but I'll give some of my thoughts

game felt shorter then the first
combat could do with a bit of tweaking still
the epilogue didn't really wrap the story up for you like in the first it just ends
the story didn't have as much variation compared to the first
didn't quite portray the scope of their story elements unlike dragon age origins with dark spawn etc

for sure a 9/10 game but personally I liked the first just a bit more

norm · 29 May 2011 at 18:42

Does anybody else's HDD thrash like mad for ~5 seconds when opening the menu to access the journal/inventory/map? During this time the game is completely frozen, but the audio still plays normally.

I'm thinking it's due to the number of saves it's parsing or something. Maybe if I could clear that cache it'd stop from happening.

Cat_In_Pyjamas · 29 May 2011 at 18:49

Paul_cz said:
Weird, I never had change of weather like that.

But I saw change of lighting when going from forest to town.

I definitely observed weather change - just started raining outside Flotsam, once I went through gates it was dry. Not a major nag but it's there.

Paul_cz · 29 May 2011 at 18:49

norm said:
Does anybody else's HDD thrash like mad for ~5 seconds when opening the menu to access the journal/inventory/map? During this time the game is completely frozen, but the audio still plays normally.

I'm thinking it's due to the number of saves it's parsing or something. Maybe if I could clear that cache it'd stop from happening.

Yeah it is loading all savegames. It is annoying. Every 15 hours or so I cleaned up savegame folder (just moved files to another folder) to get rid of it = no problem.

mattjd · 29 May 2011 at 18:50

norm said:
Does anybody else's HDD thrash like mad for ~5 seconds when opening the menu to access the journal/inventory/map? During this time the game is completely frozen, but the audio still plays normally.

I'm thinking it's due to the number of saves it's parsing or something. Maybe if I could clear that cache it'd stop from happening.

Because there isn't many loading screens in this game it has to load all the time and this can thrash a hard drive. If you have a slow HDD it would be expected and apparently the game stutters really bad if you use an IDE HDD.

So yeah it's normal.

norm · 29 May 2011 at 18:56

mattjd said:
Because there isn't many loading screens in this game it has to load all the time and this can thrash a hard drive. If you have a slow HDD it would be expected and apparently the game stutters really bad if you use an IDE HDD.

So yeah it's normal.

1TB SATA 7200rpm, standard affair.

If the problem is with the saves it doesn't sound normal, given that I'm not attempting to access them only opening the menu. Even then they should patch this so it only parses the last 10 saves instead of all of them (which currently stands at 1.92gb).

Paul_cz · 29 May 2011 at 19:09

Even opening the menu loads the savegames. Just clean the freaking folder, you will see improvement right away.

norm · 29 May 2011 at 19:15

Yeah thanks for the tip will do that.

Shamikebab · 29 May 2011 at 19:36

Just started chapter 2 and some of the sound effects seem to have disappeared, only getting weapon clashes and voices, spells and environment are completely silent :confused:

wish they had put a bit more into quality control with this game

dreigns · 29 May 2011 at 19:40

Shamikebab said:
Just started chapter 2 and some of the sound effects seem to have disappeared, only getting weapon clashes and voices, spells and environment are completely silent wish they had put a bit more into quality control with this game

if you have been playing it for a long time just restart the game or quit to menu always worked for me when the music and half the sounds vanished