The Witcher Performance

I'm very interested in buying The Witcher, I've heard nothing but great things about. I've also heard that it a very demanding.

For the people that do own it, would you mind telling me what hardware you are running it on and how well it performs so I can get an idea of how it will run for me since there is no demo to try.

Much Abliged

 

I personally haven't tried it yet, but I think you'd have a better chance if you posted in the "Official Can My Computer Run It" thread. Alternatively you can also go to System Requirements Lab

Good Luck!

 

My specs are in my sig.
I run the Witcher at native resolution, and most settings at medium. It's pretty smooth 25-30 FPS. I just can't wait for the patch, since it's gonna split the loading times in two

 

I run it all on medium, native resolution (I think It was native, anyways).

 

Thanks all for the replies. I just decided to suck it up and download the game, legally, and see how it runs on my HD2600.

 

it should run perfectly at all high and native resolution in the first area, but once you get to the second area, you'll have to turn it down cause it'll start lagging :-/ and if you have Vista 32 bit...you might crash a lot.

 

i ran it with a freind on his desktop, he had a 3.2 gigahertz P4 HT, X700 pro and a gig of ram, we played all settings medium exetpt textures, which were set to high. the game ram great and it was really fun to watch, the cutscenes were well done.

 

Trade Quarter > Your GPU.

Anyhow, you should be able to run it at medium-high with your HD2600.

I was only able to run it on low with my x1400.

 

I'll update if anyone is curious.

I'm able to run at 1280x800 with everything set to high. Only thing I had to alter were no AA, 2xAF and Low shadows. In game it runs great (anywhere from 25 to 60fps) and fluid, but the cutscenes really tear it down, but that doesn't bother me all that much.

And I'm using the Catalyst 7.11 drivers if anyone is curious.

 

Game generally runs very well, but locations like the swamp can usually be a monster to ur video card...

 

yeah, they have a problem with cut scene lag, the game hogs all your memory, it's probably going to get fixed in the next patch ( CDProjekt said it'll be out before Christmas )

 

Good thing about the patch. I also hear the loading times are going to be reduced hopefully.

The only other thing that bugs me about the game besides the loading time is the mouse control, I sometimes get frustrated with it. It would be nice to be able to use a controller.

 

For anyone who is interested in the game you can try the demo that was recently released:

http://www.thewitcher.com/community/en/www/download_the_demo.html

 

How is that a problem? Are you using OTS view? I don't see how a controller could help with this game.

 

Well a controller for the same of movement. It's just that it gets frustrating when trying to get the character in a tight spot using the mouse it seems finicky. But then again I haven't really pumped too much time into the game.

 

i run it all maxed out. C2D T7300 (2.0GHz), 2GB RAM, 256MB 8600M GT, Vista 64bit, native resolution 1280x800. it runs very well

 

That doesn't make sense, I'm sure it's not that dependant on processor speed, I have a T5250, Vista 32 bit, 2GB Ram, 8600m GT 256. And @ 1280x800 with all settings max it's a slideshow. I have to run it at 1024x640, with all settings on low to get decent performance (169.25) It's still a little studdery. Is your 8600m overclocked?

 

You might have the GDDR2 version of the 8600m GT, and he might have the GDDR3 version.

 

nope. im using the 169.02 drivers. every once in a while in the trade quarter level, there was some studder here and there. but nothing to complain about.

and in that same chapter, my game crashed twice to the desktop

 

I've downloaded the demo, had to reinstall DX10 to get it to work and it was alright at 1440 resolution until I tried to save in Vizima which caused it to crash.

 

I run the demo (2.0GHz core2duo, 2GB RAM, 8600m GT no overclocekd and 1200x800 resolution) with everything max besides shadows and it runs smooth. With shadows on max it becomes more like slides.

On a different note, yes the game crashes a lot with Vista. So if no patch that solves this problem is released, then we will have to get used to save every 5 minutes (and on two different files, it crashed once while saving and I lost the data).

 

so when is the patch supposed to be out?