The Witcher -May I have some more crash please?

On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:25:35 -0500, War <hgdxjgckghckghg DeleteThis @asdf.com> wrote:

>Got the Witcher today (woo hoo!) and am happily playing it, but.... it
>crashes about every 20 minutes or so. I have the latest patch, but,
>well, you can imagine how annoying this is. Is this something that
>everyone experiences or perhaps related to my particular HW/SW
>configuration in my rig?
>without getting into many details, it's a super fast relatively new rig
>(dual, not quad core), xp media center, dual GF 7950 GT in SLI, latest
>drivers, etc.... (I keep pretty much everything up to date).
>
>Not asking about my setup per se, just if others are also experiencing a
>lot of crashing as well?

Not one crash. Is it updated? Are your video and sound drivers updated?
Try it with just one video card?
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On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:25:35 -0500, War <hgdxjgckghckghg.TakeThisOut@asdf.com>
blabbed:

>Got the Witcher today (woo hoo!) and am happily playing it, but.... it
>crashes about every 20 minutes or so. I have the latest patch, but,
>well, you can imagine how annoying this is. Is this something that
>everyone experiences or perhaps related to my particular HW/SW
>configuration in my rig?
>without getting into many details, it's a super fast relatively new rig
>(dual, not quad core), xp media center, dual GF 7950 GT in SLI, latest
>drivers, etc.... (I keep pretty much everything up to date).
>
>Not asking about my setup per se, just if others are also experiencing a
>lot of crashing as well?


W/me it ran perfectly . . until several hours in. Then, every
time I saved the game, if I was overwriting another file, it'd crash
(but not if it was creating a new file). Weird crash. So I just
stopped playing and decided to wait until a patch. Went back to some
other games I'm tryin' to finish instead.
Plus, I didn't realize the U.S. version was censored when I
got it, so I figured waiting would also be good because someone is
bound to come out w/a mod/crack that'll uncensor it, swap the
movies/text to the uncensored versions, etc...
I can wait. =>
Leo
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"Leo" <Anonymous.RemoveThis@anonymous.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:25:35 -0500, War <hgdxjgckghckghg.RemoveThis@asdf.com>
> blabbed:
>
>>Got the Witcher today (woo hoo!) and am happily playing it, but.... it
>>crashes about every 20 minutes or so. I have the latest patch, but,
>>well, you can imagine how annoying this is. Is this something that
>>everyone experiences or perhaps related to my particular HW/SW
>>configuration in my rig?
>>without getting into many details, it's a super fast relatively new rig
>>(dual, not quad core), xp media center, dual GF 7950 GT in SLI, latest
>>drivers, etc.... (I keep pretty much everything up to date).
>>
>>Not asking about my setup per se, just if others are also experiencing a
>>lot of crashing as well?
>
>
> W/me it ran perfectly . . until several hours in. Then, every
> time I saved the game, if I was overwriting another file, it'd crash
> (but not if it was creating a new file). Weird crash. So I just
> stopped playing and decided to wait until a patch. Went back to some
> other games I'm tryin' to finish instead.
> Plus, I didn't realize the U.S. version was censored when I
> got it, so I figured waiting would also be good because someone is
> bound to come out w/a mod/crack that'll uncensor it, swap the
> movies/text to the uncensored versions, etc...
> I can wait. =>
> Leo
>

What?? Did we in the US take another beating?

Please it ain't so~~~~~

drybones
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Bitstring <bui3n3l0c665om5jdfserchmtnau5e124s.TakeThisOut@4ax.com>, from the
wonderful person Greg <see_sig.TakeThisOut@abc.xyz> said
>War <hgdxjgckghckghg.TakeThisOut@asdf.com> wrote:
>
>>Got the Witcher today (woo hoo!) and am happily playing it, but.... it
>>crashes about every 20 minutes or so. I have the latest patch, but,
>>well, you can imagine how annoying this is. Is this something that
>>everyone experiences or perhaps related to my particular HW/SW
>>configuration in my rig?
>>without getting into many details, it's a super fast relatively new rig
>>(dual, not quad core), xp media center, dual GF 7950 GT in SLI, latest
>>drivers, etc.... (I keep pretty much everything up to date).
>>
>>Not asking about my setup per se, just if others are also experiencing a
>>lot of crashing as well?
>
>I have a four-year old machine (with upgrades on the RAM and vid
>card). I've been playing on-and-off for four days, have only crashed
>once. Load times are painfully slow, but everything else is working
>fine.

I've been playing for 2-3 weeks now. It has a tendency to crash on exit,
but I've also has a few crashes to desktop, and the odd lockup. You do
need to make sure you have latest nVidia drivers. The loading speed is
much improved by the 1.2 patch, but still slightly annoying.

Try changing the video resolution &/or detail levels. IMO the developers
have somewhat overreached themselves in that area, with major memory
mgmt issues at the limits (long before the framerate craters, you get
into crashy-crashy land). I also see a few video artefacts (coloured
spots dancing on the screen during loading operations; trapezoids, and
triangles, of darkness imposed on the screen, one one occasion all
bodies and faces went invisible (but came back after a reload), etc.
etc.
I am though trying to play in widescreen - the 'readme' recommends
1280*1024 as a maximum iirc.

The program (stupid, oh how stupid) doesn't use more than one core at
once, so will probably run =marginally= better if you use task manager
to set an 'affinity' to one core of the other (helps with the cache
mgmt).

It really is a great game (better even that Gothic 3), somewhat hindered
by a buggy implementation (but still better than G3).

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Bitstring <hh76n3pmb8r4m4jcrj3j62mlqh4vnm63mb DeleteThis @4ax.com>, from the
wonderful person Nostromo <nospam DeleteThis @forme.org> said
>Thus spake War <hgdxjgckghckghg DeleteThis @asdf.com>, Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:25:35 -0500,
>Anno Domini:
>
>>Got the Witcher today (woo hoo!) and am happily playing it, but.... it
>>crashes about every 20 minutes or so. I have the latest patch, but,
>>well, you can imagine how annoying this is. Is this something that
>>everyone experiences or perhaps related to my particular HW/SW
>>configuration in my rig?
>>without getting into many details, it's a super fast relatively new rig
>>(dual, not quad core), xp media center, dual GF 7950 GT in SLI, latest
>>drivers, etc.... (I keep pretty much everything up to date).
>>
>>Not asking about my setup per se, just if others are also experiencing a
>>lot of crashing as well?
>
>If you're using Vista, then no one can help you. Welcome to the frontier of
>new-age computing & pc games playing & get used to rebooting...a lot! ;-p
>
>Seriously, drivers, drivers, drivers - all up to date? Tried the Omega
>drivers instead of NV ones? I did in place of my ATI drivers & the diff was
>amazing. Otherwise, this game is worth setting up an XP dual-boot, but good
>luck with it & Vi$ta chasing their own boot sector tails around the block.

For heavens sake, just upgrade the Vista installation to XP!! Even Dell
are offering that as an option i think ..

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Thus spake War <hgdxjgckghckghg.RemoveThis@asdf.com>, Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:25:35 -0500,
Anno Domini:

>Got the Witcher today (woo hoo!) and am happily playing it, but.... it
>crashes about every 20 minutes or so. I have the latest patch, but,
>well, you can imagine how annoying this is. Is this something that
>everyone experiences or perhaps related to my particular HW/SW
>configuration in my rig?
>without getting into many details, it's a super fast relatively new rig
>(dual, not quad core), xp media center, dual GF 7950 GT in SLI, latest
>drivers, etc.... (I keep pretty much everything up to date).
>
>Not asking about my setup per se, just if others are also experiencing a
>lot of crashing as well?

If you're using Vista, then no one can help you. Welcome to the frontier of
new-age computing & pc games playing & get used to rebooting...a lot! ;-p

Seriously, drivers, drivers, drivers - all up to date? Tried the Omega
drivers instead of NV ones? I did in place of my ATI drivers & the diff was
amazing. Otherwise, this game is worth setting up an XP dual-boot, but good
luck with it & Vi$ta chasing their own boot sector tails around the block.

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"Nostromo" <nospam.RemoveThis@forme.org> wrote in message
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| Thus spake War <hgdxjgckghckghg.RemoveThis@asdf.com>, Tue, 25 Dec 2007
22:25:35 -0500,
| Anno Domini:
|
| >Got the Witcher today (woo hoo!) and am happily playing it, but.... it
| >crashes about every 20 minutes or so. I have the latest patch, but,
| >well, you can imagine how annoying this is. Is this something that
| >everyone experiences or perhaps related to my particular HW/SW
| >configuration in my rig?
| >without getting into many details, it's a super fast relatively new rig
| >(dual, not quad core), xp media center, dual GF 7950 GT in SLI, latest
| >drivers, etc.... (I keep pretty much everything up to date).
| >
| >Not asking about my setup per se, just if others are also experiencing a
| >lot of crashing as well?
|
| If you're using Vista, then no one can help you. Welcome to the frontier
of
| new-age computing & pc games playing & get used to rebooting...a lot! ;-p
|
| Seriously, drivers, drivers, drivers - all up to date? Tried the Omega
| drivers instead of NV ones? I did in place of my ATI drivers & the diff
was
| amazing. Otherwise, this game is worth setting up an XP dual-boot, but
good
| luck with it & Vi$ta chasing their own boot sector tails around the block.
|

Yah, I can highly recommend avoiding the Vista/XP dual boot if you can...
Or use a utility (like Acronis Disk Director) that will handle the dual boot
system for you, instead of relying on MS to do proper housekeeping... I've
had plenty of experience with XP/Vista systems that work fine, but my new
notebook came with Vista and the first thing I did was pop XP on that
sucker... Put it on a separate partition so that it was completely
isolated, as I had experienced some of the evils of Vista when installing on
the same drive as XP... Everything was great for about 2 weeks, with only
an occasional blip or oddity, then WHAM the damn thing decided to jump off a
bridge and corrupt its master boot record. Luckily I know a few things, and
have some great disk utilities around, so I was able to figure out what was
going on... Ended up saying screw it, so now when I boot up I have a choice
of Windows XP Professional and, ummm, Windows XP Professional! Ah well, it
worked out, put all my programming stuff on the XP formerly known as Vista
side, and all my fun and games on the second partition.

And in the meantime, 2 of my colleagues and a friend have all fallen prey to
the dreaded "Vista ate my MBR" issue... Apparently MS is fine with you
going from XP to Vista, but they could not imagine in their perfect world
that anyone would want to go backwards from their shiny new bloatware OS to
something more stable, faster and reliable like XP... Why test what'll
never happen, right?

CoinSpin
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Thus spake Zaghadka <zaghadka DeleteThis @hotmail.com>, Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:20:39 GMT,
Anno Domini:

>On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:01:46 +1100, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, Nostromo
>wrote:
>
>>
>>Both OSs are *supposed* to support dual booting. Funny how they don't, ey?
>
>No kidding. The only reliable way I've set up a Windows multiboot is with
>either GRUB or System Commander. I use System Commander now.
>
>Windows bootloaders have always been designed for lock-in, even to the point
>that trying to load pure MS-DOS under Windows 98 could be *fatal* to your
>system, but was somehow still left in as an option.
>
>If I didn't have System Commander loaded, Windows install disks would, by and
>large, be destructive to other OS's. They wreck partitions, or insist on
>formatting the entire drive under one partition, or other such nonsense.
>
>XP is fairly flexible, the best of the lot.
>
>Vista, from what I've heard, is the worst of the lot, writing a custom master
>boot record for no apparent reason, meaning that only Vista's bootmanager can
>make sense of it.
>
>I have no practical experience with that, but it's what I've heard. I won't
>touch Vista until it's fixed or replaced by something that works.
>
>I like having a multiboot system, and I won't be loading an OS that insists
>that it's "my way or the highway."

Wot he sed.

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Thus spake Michael Cecil <macecil.RemoveThis@gmail.com>, Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:54:39
-0600, Anno Domini:

>On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:33:50 +1100, Nostromo <nospam.RemoveThis@forme.org> wrote:
>
>>Thus spake "CoinSpin" <coin^spam^spin@hotmail.com>, Thu, 27 Dec 2007
>>08:49:07 -0500, Anno Domini:
>>
>>>Yah, I can highly recommend avoiding the Vista/XP dual boot if you can...
>>>Or use a utility (like Acronis Disk Director) that will handle the dual boot
>>>system for you, instead of relying on MS to do proper housekeeping... I've
>>>had plenty of experience with XP/Vista systems that work fine, but my new
>>>notebook came with Vista and the first thing I did was pop XP on that
>>>sucker... Put it on a separate partition so that it was completely
>>>isolated, as I had experienced some of the evils of Vista when installing on
>>>the same drive as XP... Everything was great for about 2 weeks, with only
>>>an occasional blip or oddity, then WHAM the damn thing decided to jump off a
>>>bridge and corrupt its master boot record. Luckily I know a few things, and
>>>have some great disk utilities around, so I was able to figure out what was
>>>going on... Ended up saying screw it, so now when I boot up I have a choice
>>>of Windows XP Professional and, ummm, Windows XP Professional! Ah well, it
>>>worked out, put all my programming stuff on the XP formerly known as Vista
>>>side, and all my fun and games on the second partition.
>>
>>If they were anyone else & pulled this sort of stunt they'd get crucified.
>
>Blah, blah, blah, snip.
>
>You can't blame MS for this. He added XP to Vista. That means MS didn't

Blah, blah, double blah! Do some research - Vista is the one that hijacks &
mangles the XP MBR as it pleases, not the other way around. Unforgivable.

>>>And in the meantime, 2 of my colleagues and a friend have all fallen prey to
>>>the dreaded "Vista ate my MBR" issue... Apparently MS is fine with you
>>>going from XP to Vista, but they could not imagine in their perfect world
>>>that anyone would want to go backwards from their shiny new bloatware OS to
>>>something more stable, faster and reliable like XP... Why test what'll
>>>never happen, right?
>
>There's no problem going from Vista to XP. It's called doing a complete
>fresh install.

Well done - you've just set flexible computing back 20 years.

>You might notice there's no official way to install Windows 3.1 to a
>Windows 95 system and there's no official way to install W95 to a XP
>system. The only official way to "downgrade" is to start fresh.

Both OSs are *supposed* to support dual booting. Funny how they don't, ey?

>Vista sucks, true, but you can't blame it for the countless user errors
>created by people who know just enough to create problems for themselves.

CoinSpin hardly sounds like a 'typical' user. I should know - I've been in
IT for 25yrs & can spot a luser a mile away. How's yer PC/Windows skill
levels Mike? ;-p

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