Q: How to deal with crashes after the prologue?
A: Try lowering the Texture Memory Size setting to high or medium.
Q: How to get around the freeze bug when playing dice?
A: Before the release of the patch, it is possible to play dice, only each move of the computer takes about 6-7 minutes (even if it seems that everything is frozen and the mouse does not move).
The Witcher II: Assassins of Kings FAQ (optimization, settings, Save Game) Free Download
Where should the Witcher 1 save be located for import?
Win Vista, Win 7 (English) – C: \\ Users \ Username \ Documents \ The Witcher \ saves
Win Vista, Win 7 (Russian) – C: \\ Users \ Username \ My Documents \ The Witcher \ saves
Win XP (Russian) – C: \\ Documents and settings \ Username \ My Documents \ The Witcher \ saves
Win XP (eng.) – C: \\ Documents and settings \ Username \ My Documents \ The Witcher \ saves
Installation DLC (For ENG version)
– To download and install additional language packs and additional bonuses, you must register the game. The easiest way to do this is by clicking the “Witcher 2” shortcut located on the Desktop and selecting the “Register game” option in the launcher. Then following the directions in the registration window:
– Login or create a new account.
– Enter activation code.
After registering the game, you need to select the “Downloadable content” menu item and enter your DLC activation code, which is found on individual DLC coupons. This will activate it..
Registration and installation of DLC on the Russian version is temporarily impossible. Will be fixed with the next patch.
How to revoke activation?
If you need to install the game on another computer or the stock of activations is exhausted, you can simply cancel one activation on one of the systems with a previously activated game.
Russian version:
Using the corresponding item in the start menu.
International version:
To do this, open the command line (cmd), drag the .exe game file into the window that opens (or enter the file name manually), press the space bar once, append / revoke and confirm by pressing the Enter key. Another window will open, and following the instructions that appear, you can revoke the license from this copy of the game.
The game lags or crashes on nVidia video cards
There are different solutions:
1) Update your graphics card driver to 275.27 Beta.
2) If it doesn’t help, roll back to one of the earlier versions. The Witcher 2 works better on different video cards on some drivers, worse on others.
3) Uninstall 3D Vision drivers.
4) Disable Outrageous quality in the configurator.
I started the game but nothing happens
Check if the corresponding witcher2.exe process is in the task list using the Task Manager. If there is, wait. The game can run from 30 seconds to several minutes. It depends on how clean your registry is and how fragmented your hard drive is. To get started faster, try:
1) Clean the registry with specialized programs
2) Defragment hard drives
How to get rid of the “fog” in the game?
If you have an ATI (AMD) video card, then disable forced anti-aliasing in the drivers.
Q: How to install the game without installation problems?
A: 1.we cut down Kaspersky and the Internet.
2.set the game.
3. put 1 patch, the Internet and Casper are still disabled! Then the error at the end of the installation will not appear!
4.Patch 2.
5.reboot the computer.
6.start the game (I really ran it through the application in the game folder, and not through the shortcut).
Q: How to remove black bars, top and bottom of the screen?
A: The game is designed for widescreen monitors (16: 9). On traditional 5: 4 and 4: 3, there will be black stripes at the top and bottom that cannot be removed. Perhaps support for traditional resolutions will be added in future patches.
Q: What to do if the game requires mfc100u.dll?
A: You need to install Microsoft Visual C ++ 2010. Distributions can be downloaded from the official Microsoft website: x86, x64. For 32-bit systems, you need to install only x86, for 64-bit systems – x86 and x64. For reliability, you can copy the mfc100u.dll file from the windows \ system32 folder to the \ The Witcher 2 \ bin \ folder
Q: After downloading the patch, the installation of the update begins, starts checking fisle pack0.dzip. it has been going on for me for a long time … it’s like that for everyone?
A: Yes
Q: Where to enter the activation code for DLC
A: tyk But while there is no launcher, we are waiting for the patch. (promised to fix it within a week)
Q: I can not set the graphics settings, they are constantly reset.
A: The problem occurs due to the fact that the configurator saves the settings in the “My Documents \ The Witcher 2” folder, and the game itself tries to read them from “My Documents \ Witcher 2”. There are the following solutions to this problem.
1. Install patch # 2. If it doesn’t help, go to solution 2 or 3.
2. For those with Windows XP:
Transferring the contents of the folder “My Documents \ The Witcher 2” to the “My Documents \ Witcher 2” folder.
3. For those with Windows Vista / Windows 7:
1.open the console(cmd.exe) as administrator
2. run
mklink / D “% USERPROFILE% \ Documents \ Witcher 2” “% USERPROFILE% \ Documents \ The Witcher 2”
3.joy life
This operation creates a symbolic link to a folder that will act like a regular folder, but will not take up space. For this command, the “The Witcher 2” folder must exist, but the “Witcher 2” must not exist. Otherwise it won’t work.
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Settings FAQ:
Advanced customization options
Decreased texture quality: the higher this value, the lower the texture quality.
· Texture memory size (MB): determines the amount of video adapter memory that will be allocated to textures. The larger this value, the fewer loads the game will need, and the more smoothly it will run. However, this can lead to an out of memory error and even crash from the game. Therefore, set this parameter as correctly as possible, depending on the memory of your video adapter.
· Shadow quality: This metric affects graphics performance and consumes graphics card GPU resources. It does not affect the performance of the computer processor.
· Shadow Quality: Determines the maximum number of shadowed lights. Affects graphics performance and consumes graphics card GPU resources. Does not affect computer processor performance.
· Distance of levels of detail: affects the level of detail, objects in the distance. The lower the values, the less detail the models will have, but the better the performance..
Glow: This effect does not load the GPU that much, but it significantly improves the quality of the graphics.
Light beams: a visual effect that is recommended to be turned on on medium to high-end computers, but turned off on older computers.
Anti-aliasing: This effect can seriously degrade performance, so it’s best to turn it off on medium to low-end computers.
· Blur: special visual effects of blur require a significant allocation of resources; however, they are rarely used in the game.
· Depth of field in the game: subtle visual effect. This option only affects the gameplay, and does not affect in-game scenes.
· Vignetting: A small aesthetic decoration that creates a photographic vignette around the screen. Doesn’t affect game performance.
· Rain: creates the effect of a surface wet from rain; moderately affects performance.
SSAO (Global Illumination): a lighting effect that is very important for the game (but, unfortunately, a significant load on the GPU).
Motion Blur: The effect of blurring the image when the camera is moving, consumes GPU resources.
· Depth of field in movies: cinematic, like in movies, the effect of depth of field in dialogues and in-game scenes. Creates extremely detailed images, but also has a huge performance impact. Only enable it on the very best video adapters.
· Depth of field in scenes: the effect of depth of field during dialogues and in-game scenes; does not affect performance during gameplay.
Dangling Object Boundaries: Sets the limits for the physical animation of parts of characters, such as Geralt’s hair. Disabling this option will lead to a serious load on the computer’s processor..
Beyond Quality: This is a high quality rendering mode in which the entire scene is rendered multiple times to provide the best textures, object details, and anti-aliasing. it is better than anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering at high settings. Use this option wisely, and only on the very best computers, with excellent processors and graphics cards..
· Vertical sync: helps to avoid “tearing” when moving the camera and flickering during fast-paced animations (for example, bright explosions). However, this can slow down the rendering process and lead to a delay in response to input signals..
· Decoration: Enables in-game effects such as blood or sand on characters. Affects processor performance.
