M11x - The Witcher 2 Discussion (Problems, Fixes, Gameplay, Etc.)

I couldn't find a proper thread for the witcher 2. Have been waiting for someone to tell whether the game runs well on the m11x R2. Thanks

 

Mine arrives tomorrow so i'll let you know then.

HOPE SO!!!

 

Bad news guys...

I have an M11x R2 (core i5 with 4Gb RAM) and have been trying all morning to get TW2 to run with an acceptable framerate. I have all settings reduced to the lowest they can go and I'm still only getting max of approx 20fps. It's a total slideshow... can't really play it like this

Average FPS is about 11-19
Highest I have seen.. 23fps

 

Crap, there went $45... If it won't work on an r2, it won't work on an r1, right?

 

really

 

Bummer, obviously my R1 won't stand a chance then. =(

 

have you tried the lowest resolution, gpu and cpu oc, using throttlestop as well?
Otherwise the given minimum system requirement is fake.

 

Have the same M11x....Download is at 90% now, I'll let you guys know in a little bit how mine fairs.

If this is true (a max of 20fps on lowest settings), I'll be very disappointed. From what I've heard so far from others, the game has some optimization issues.

 

Yeah, I've tried resolutions right down to 800x600. That actually gets a small performance boost, but means the text is unreadable and it looks kinda crappy. I've had it image centred (non-stretched) and also stretched to fit screen size. Either way is pretty useless to be honest.

I have OC'd my CPU in BIOS, I have MSI Afterburner OC on my GPU (540/1296/828) and running throttlestop. I also tried runnining GameBooster to kill any unneeded windows processes.. Still can't get the fps above 23

I'm running latest nVidia drivers 270.61 and have even tried downgrading these to earlier version... no change.. Arrrgh.. Been waiting on this game for ages too. I did kinda think this little M11x would struggle a bit, but I thought if I could get about 30fps on medium settings, I'd be happy with that.

Here's hoping that someone posts a few tips here as to ho we can get this game running smooth.

 

It auto-detected specs to low. However, I'm having some problems starting the game. I purchased it through steam, installed it, and every time I launch the game I get a few errors, like:

Unable to load cooked 'globals\sound_materials.csv'. Make sure resource was gathered and check log for details.

Any ideas what went wrong..?

 

The game runs fine for me on my Alienware M11x R2 at the autodetected settings (Medium).

The problem is that you need to manually whitelist the EXE (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steamapps\common\The Witcher 2\bin\Witcher.exe). The game is so new, that nVidia didn't get a chance to update the automatic whitelist yet.

 

Can you do a benchmark for us? I would not mind playing the game on lowest setting since it looks gorgeous
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I bought mine form GOG.com but have already whitelisted the witcher2.exe and even tried forcing some setting on/off in there.

What sort of FPS are you getting?

btw... My installation also detected "Medium" settings when I clicked the auto-detect button. I was thinking "YESSS"

Unfortunatley... short lived joy.

 

Is there an in-game framerate tool?

 

This gives me hope!

Make sure you are whitelisting the correct .exe
Also there will be a .cfg or .ini file which we will be able to play around with to get settings nice.

Kent what sort of framerate are you getting?

 

Not doing well on my R2/i7 at all. White listed, CPU OC'd @164, ThrottleStop engaged. Ah well that's what the dedicated gaming rig at home is for. Never really intended to play it much on the M11x.

 

Not that I know of.. I used FRAPS.

I'm definitely whitelisting the correct exe (would hate to see this thing trying to run TW2 on Intel GPU lol )

 

If you use EVGA Precision you can OC further than afterburner. Also in the settings menu you can set it so your FPS are shown in the top left hand corner of the screen. Just keep an eye on it and give us a rough average of what its playing at.

I do not mean to offened by this but some peoples unplayable varies from others. My personal acceptable level is over 30FPS.

 

30fps is about bare minumum for me too... anything lower than that just appears to be a slideshow for me.

Should I keep the core and shader clocks linked in EVGA precision?
What about the memory clock?

Any recommendations?

 

I was able to use the clocks in my sig on BFBC2 but on Crysis it crashes and i've had to drop down to 550, Shaders linked & 890 on the memory.

Have a play and see what works best for you.

There will be things we can tweak in the settins to get this baby running im sure!

 

Something strange going on here... I tried it at Medium and High settings (never changed individual settings within those) and the game plays about the same as it does on low (with absolutely everything switched off), i.e. I'm getting about 20fps on High.. and 20fps on Low.

 

Found that COMMON ISSUES AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS [READ BEFORE POSTING] - The Witcher 2 - Forum - - GOG.com

apparently uninstalling the 3d vision can improve performance

 

Yeah, I already seen that post (bought my copy through gog, so have been trawling the posts in there for solutions too). Unfortunately, I didn't have the 3D Vision drivers installed anyway, so not able to uninstall them.

 

I have heard that the latest nVidia 275.27 drivers have helped for some people.

I am installing them now, and will let you guys know if there is any difference on my machine (M11x R2)

 

My r3 came in today. I will let you guys know how it runs tonight.

 

Installing the new (beta) 275.27 drivers does seem to improve the game performance. I am running it on Low settings, and getting playable framerates.

My M11x R2 machine is running nVidia 275.27 drivers, using Throttlestop, and overclocking my CPU to 162Mhz.

For what it is worth, everyone seems to be having performance problems with this game. The only person that I have seen in forum posts that runs the game well is someone with a Sandy Bridge Core i5 desktop system, and 2x nVidia GTX460s in SLI. He gets around 45fps on High settings.

 

Thanks Kent1146. Can you give any numbers for the framerates?

 

Sorry, I can't give numbers for framerates. I don't use fraps.

But I can say that the framerates are "playable". And I am the kind of person that considers 30fps to be the minimum for "playable".

 

Got it on my R1, every thing on low, just managed to get 16-20fps. That's only in the army camp. I cannot imagine the fps during intense battle later.

 

I downloaded the 275.27 beta drivers earlier, tried to install them but the installer said that my hardware did not meet the requirements for these drivers (or words to that effect). I couldn't progress further and had to cancel out.

Do you have a link to the ones you downloaded Kent?

 

Here are the ones I installed. Perhaps the ones you picked weren't for the right GPU, or were for a different OS other than Win7 x64?
NVIDIA DRIVERS 275.27 BETA

When you install, be sure to uncheck the option to install 3D Vision.

 

Arrgh... No Joy with the beta drivers... still the same fps, i.e. about max of 20 on lowest settings.

 

crap that's bad news for me ):
maybe r3 users can run this game? since r2 users are having trouble too

although I'm willing to try the game even on the r1 =D

 

Stuff this... I'm jacking this in and going back to TW1 for some "actual gaming".

 

Using Nvidia Driver 270.61

Uninstalled 3D drivers closed some " background process"

Average 18 to 20 FPS Playable in Medium settings

 

then the only way to play this game is to wait for a ps3 port of it or in a few years when I will buy another pc

 

has anyone tried using custom resolutions? maybe that will help bump the fps up?

 

By the sounds of it, only a GPU like the GTX 485M or the HD6970M will give you any decent frames on a laptop for single GPU solutions if you want any sort of eye candy. However, they will no doubt release patches to improve the game performance.

I wonder if the M11X R3 may be able to get decent frames though.

 

I will try it on my R3 tomorrow. Setting it to DL tonight.

R3, i7, 8gb's RAM

I'll OC the card too, see what happens.

 

Everyone appears to be having issues with this title. Open thread in the 17x subforum:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...witcher-2-performance-problem-discussion.html

Also we have a thread in the gaming section of NBR which may contain useful tips - please check both.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/579170-witcher-2-a.html

 

So scrap the saying "Can it play Crysis" the saying is now.. "But can it play the Witcher 2" haha

 

Yeah, thats about the same as me regarding FPS on medium. However, there's not much of a difference between Medium and Low settings (as far as I can tell) So I've stuck it on Low and getting 20+ fps (highest I've now seen was about 28 in the small area in the army camp with the black and white checked tents) I think this was because there was less happening in background in there.. only some guys training with swords).

The game is still gorgeous even on Low settings.. I'd say it's as good looking as the S.T.A.L.K.E.R games on med/high (even with the stalker complete mods). I would be happy playing TW2 on Low.. if I could get just a few frames more, i.e. 28-30 would be great.

Here's hoping for a little performance patch from CDPR

 

i hope that deus ex doesn't fall into the same trap!

 

Nah the witcher has super high poll count and very good textures. Deus Ex is a console port so should be fine. Look at Crysis 2 running at around 35FPS and looks amazing!

I'll be very suprised if there are tweaks out that will eek out an extra 5fps on low setting. Look at Mafia and the Physx tweaks and BLOPS with the initial ini mods. The PC gaming compunity is great and will sort it out I imagine.

 

Just been on overclock.net and everyone is loving it. Most people have custom gaming PC's like I used to until 5 days ago
Looks like i'll play through the first one again. Go travelling for 6 months then come back, sell my m11x and build a new gaming rig.

Shame the game is burning a hole on my door mat!

 

I dropped the rez down to 800x600 lol. It certainly bumps up the fps (got 30-40fps on that rez) but it was displayed as a tiny 800x600 box in middle of a black screen.. so small, I couldn't read the text at all. I then tried stretching the image to fit panel... looks horrible and still can't read the text at cos it's so blurred

 

800x600 is not a custom res. I'm talking like 1024x576 or 848x480. it might run better at 848x480 because the total area is smaller than 800x600.

try 848x480, as crappy as it sounds and see how the FPS does....that's if the game allows for custom resolutions.

 

For what its worth, I tried running the game in 1360x768 res (instead of 136x768 res), and it did not have an effect.

The reason I tested this was because some previous game showed a considerable increase in performance when going to 1360x768 mode instead of 1366x768 mode. It was a first person shooter that did this... maybe Singularity?

 

but does it take custom resolutions?

 

I haven't tried. You can try modifying the user.ini file in \My Documents\Witcher 2\. I think the very last section down at the bottom is where you set resolutions... you can try putting in a custom res, and seeing how the game engine reacts to that.