Difference between revisions of "The Witcher"

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The Witcher
The Witcher	2007
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings	2011
The Witcher Adventure Game	2014
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2015
Gwent: The Witcher Card Game	2018
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales	2018
Gwent: Rogue Mage	2022
The Witcher: Remake	TBA

Key points

Owning any version, including retail, entitles you to a DRM-free copy on GOG.com; see Witcher Backup.

General information

Official Website - contains download links and basic information about the patches

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

The Witcher Wiki

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		DRM: Tages SolidShield. DRM removed in the latest Patches.
GOG.com
Steam

All versions can be registered on GOG.com even if a product key was not included; see Witcher Backup for details.

Essential improvements

Patches

There are two patches available for download on the official page:

Patch 1.4 will upgrade the Original Edition of the game to the Enhanced Edition.
Patch 1.5 will remove the DRM and correct bugs introduced by 1.4. It also contains five community-made adventures.

Modifications

Walking in OTS view

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/20900/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/20900/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.

Graphical settings.

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Input settings

Input settings.

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Audio settings

Audio settings.

General settings.

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Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
Simplified Chinese
Czech
English
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Polish
Russian
Spanish

Issues fixed

"Fixes to Common Problems" - A comprehensive list of known issues and potential fixes

Crash at launch

Steam Beta clients after May 29 seem to make game to crash.

Instructions

Refer to "Fixes to Common Problems" for other solutions.

Minimum System Requirements Not Met

Instructions

Instructions

No mouse in main menu

Instructions

Frequent game crashes

Instructions

Rendered cut-scenes don't display

On some systems rendered cut-scenes don't display correctly. Audio will still play, but what was on the screen previously will be displayed.

Instructions

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 2800+	Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3000+
System memory (RAM)	1 GB	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	15 GB
Video card (GPU)	nVidia GeForce 6600 Radeon 9800	nVidia GeForce 7800GTX ATI Radeon X1950 XT

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.6.8
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo	Intel Core i5 or Core i7
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	10.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	NVIDIA GeForce 320M AMD Radeon HD 6750M Intel HD Graphics 3000 256 MB of VRAM	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX AMD Radeon X1950 XT 512 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/20900/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (20900) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

[Proton_path_note-1] 1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/20900/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (20900) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

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 '''Key points'''
-{{++}} Owning any version, including retail, entitles you to a DRM-free copy on GOG.com; see [[#GOG.com backup copy|GOG.com backup copy]].
+{{++}} Owning any version, including retail, entitles you to a DRM-free copy on GOG.com; see [http://www.gog.com/witcher/backup/ Witcher Backup].
 '''General information'''

Developers
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	CD Projekt Red
Publishers
	CD Projekt
Engines
	Aurora
Release dates
Windows	October 26, 2007
macOS (OS X)	April 5, 2012