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Briareos H on 16/5/2011 at 16:11

Stop spoiling yourself, mothra :D

mothra on 16/5/2011 at 16:39

I turn off the sound when there is talking :)
and I only watched half an hour....running around in the woods + 1 dungeon.
and sadly: texture popping, I hope it's just his rig. but everything else: droool

steo on 16/5/2011 at 17:40

aaaaand, looks like I'd better not look at this thread again until I've bought and completed Witcher 2... Still need to finish Witcher 1 first, and really don't have time for gaming atm. Hope you guys all enjoy it though.

bukary on 16/5/2011 at 19:04

Today we had game activation problems, so CDPR promised to send some nice Witcher T-shirts ((http://www.cdprojekt.pl/upl/2011_20/news/2313015.jpg) Rebel, (http://www.cdprojekt.pl/upl/2011_20/news/6798872.jpg) Patriot, (http://www.cdprojekt.pl/upl/2011_20/news/7047031.jpg) Slayer, (http://www.cdprojekt.pl/upl/2011_20/news/9688517.jpg) Triss and Geralt) to all Polish CE owners. I guess it was worth to suffer this 10 hours delay.

I've just finished the prologue of The Witcher 2. It took me 2 hours. It is VERY cinematic and very good. Definitely better than Kaer Morhen part in W1. I am in Flotsam now. It is... beautiful. :)

My system is quite old (8800GT) and yet the game runs fine and looks wonderful.

Unfortunately, there's no support for 4:3 monitors, so I have to play with black borders on the screen. CDPR is supposed to release a patch to fix this issue in the future.

EvaUnit02 on 16/5/2011 at 19:13

Quote Posted by bukary

My system is quite old (8800GT) and yet the game runs fine and looks wonderful.

That's good to hear. What resolution are you running the game at and what's your average framerate? Also what's your machine's full specifications (inc. OS)?

Cheers.

mothra on 16/5/2011 at 19:22

"unlock ! unlock !" echoes through the tubes

bukary on 16/5/2011 at 19:28

Quote Posted by EvaUnit02

What resolution are you running the game at and your average framerate? Also what's your machine's full specifications?

1280x768 (as I said, my 4:3 iiyama is quite old).
System: XP, Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66 GHz, 8800GT 512 MB, 2 GB RAM.

I haven't checked framerate, but so far I also haven't noticed any significant frame drops (even in large areas with lots of AIs). Everything runs quite smooth on, let's say, medium settings. There's only one thing that annoys me (and it's my system's fault): I have to wait 5-6 seconds to see the main menu (which is nicely animated) after pressing ESC.

Few more things:

I have to say that cutscenes in TW2 are incredible. :) No wonder all those trailers were so impressive.

I am also very impressed with the way (playable flashbacks) CDPR prepared story background and introduced dramatis personae in the prologue. Hats off! Of course, there's one downside of this: assault on La Valette's castle is very linear.

Polish dialogues are witty, interesting and really vulgar. ;) I could listen to Ionwerth, Roche and Triss for ages.

And do not let your kids play this game... Rape, tortures, scared and crying children, brutality, strong language, blood on the screen, complete nudity -- you can find it all in the prologue alone. :ebil:

CCCToad on 17/5/2011 at 01:04

Can't wait to read this thread tomorrow.

Bioware's about to get pwned.

Koki on 17/5/2011 at 06:10

Quote Posted by bukary

1280x768 (as I said, my 4:3 iiyama is quite old).

1280x768 is not 4:3

Briareos H on 17/5/2011 at 06:12

That shit is coming like in two hours and I won't be able to play it in three weeks :(

BTW besides the letterboxing, why have you decided that you won't be playing The Witcher games Koki? RPG-wise, this is probably the best we're gonna get from a large-ish company since the days of the infinity engine. I mean the competition is either Dragon Age, Fable, Mass Effect or Elder Scrolls...