The Witcher Gameplay and Performance @ [H]

Bo_Fox said:
Oh please it does not necessarily mean how much "latest technology" it uses. Graphics can simply mean how realistic it looks and how visually attractive it is.

The ground textures in Oblivion looks awful, period. That's why there are so many texture packs to download, to fix that awful thing. Also the swaying grass looks just like Crysis settings on Medium or Low.

The Witcher does not over-use bloom/HDR lighting like in Oblivion. The colors might be a little washed-out in the darker levels and I do not like that either, but what really ruins it is the insanely bright glare found on people's faces in Oblivion when light is shining on them (you could even see "rays" glowing from their faces... oh please!).
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"Oh please", yourself. You are merely trying to back-up your wording in an article for the sake of pride and that's just not cool. What's more not cool is your sycophants backing you up for no reason at all but to prove that you are right no matter what.

You fling technicalities at me like the lighting and faces and ground textures, but have you looked at the technicalities of The Witcher? All the people there look exactly the same. There seems to be only about few templates that are used again and again, like the harlot, the fat-merchant, the fat bum and the like. No matter how much you advance in the plot, the people all look exactly the same. When I've reached ACT II, I had an overview of the town. It looked like something out of a 5 year old game! The bulky rooftops, the mechanised smokes that goes out of the chimneys, everything looked so dated. Just look at the scenery of the game or the animations, they look so robotic and dated. The talking animation is simply not there. The houses look exactly the same - bulky and gray. Objects mesh together on occasions. animations are interrupted all of a sudden and character simply turns robotically towards you. Geralt is pushing people away while he runs, yet most of the time the pushing animation happens either too slow or too fast compared to the pushed-person animation. I could go on all night. This is simply a very dated engine, and that's alright in my book, but it by no means look any better than Oblivion.

True, Oblivion isn't perfect in any way, especially in the graphics department, but you simply cannot compare it with The Witcher in terms of graphics, and then claim that The Witcher surpasses it. Simply compare every screenshot ever made of Oblivion and a screenshot of The Witcher objectively and spread it around, ask people which one look better. I really have no idea what you're talking about. I doubt you have. The mere fact that you compare Oblivion to Crisis says everything. You wouldn't dare compare The Witcher to Crisis, for example.

And finally, since you like periods so much, here are some for you - The Witcher looks dated, period. The Witcher uses a dated engine, period. The Witcher looks like a mod to NWN, with beautiful hand-drawings in the journal, period. Graphically, The Witcher is not even in the same league or even in the same playing field as Oblivion, let alone surpasses it. Period.

The only thing that The Witcher surpasses Oblivion In terms of technicalities is Geralt's sword animations, which are simply amazing and are just cool to watch over and over.
 
Whoa whoa no need for personal attacks here. Too many personal attacks---it's not the end of the world!!!

Hey, people have different tastes, ok? My taste is that Oblivion isn't that good-looking to me. Even when it first came out and everybody were raving about Oblivion having arguably the best graphics ever, I was so unimpressed. In fact, I had a hard time finding a screenshot of Oblivion that was impressive.

Only the grass was mentioned in Crysis because when my brother and I were playing Crysis and needed higher frame rates, we turned it down to medium settings and agreed that the worst thing about medium setting was the grass alone. My brother, an Oblivion addict, said "Ugh! The grass looks like Oblivion." And I completely agreed with him, because in high settings Crysis uses completely different textures for grass (like comparing a christmas tree to a large Oak tree).

Anyway, thanks for the negativity about The Witcher.. I'm still not yet 1/3 done with the game and you're already trying to ruin it for me. Oh great.


At least the women in TW looks far sexier than in Oblivion. If you're male and you don't know what I'm talking about, your sex orientation is probably messed up LOL!
 
Well, I play both games at 1920*1080 with everything on high. They both look amazing. Oblivion's graphics are more fantasy style, while the witcher is more dark and gritty. The houses are all the same in Oblivion as well. The characted animations in the Witcher are great, much better than Oblivion. Also the water reflections and the shadows in the Witcher are way better too. I know somethings could be better in the Witcher, but, the same could be said for Oblivion.

The talking animations are off becuase the game is polish and the english is dubbed over.

Basically what sums it up for me is that the graphics in Oblivion are of a fantasy world all bright and flashy, but the Witcher is more real looking. So far The Witcher is proving to be a better game for me.

And as for asking people around to look and seee which looks better, well, Nobody thought one game looked way better than the other, Oblivion had the edge in some parts and The Witcher looked better in other areas.

They both look fantastic!!

Oh, if you are having problems with crashing in Vista, just right click on the shortcut and go into the compability mode tab. Run the game as administrator and in windows xp compability mode and it should be crash free then, Worked for me :D
 
Once you upgrade to v1.2, ALL the crashing issues can be resolved by running the game in window mode.

Just set the resolution to be the same as your desktop resolution and drag the window so it is centered perfectly (or almost perfectly) such that you don't see the "window" surrounding the game. I was completely stuck at the reverend of fire in act 1 (i even restarted, as soon as i talk to him the game crashed, and in many other spots)... after going to window mode I did act 1 and and act 2 without a single crash!
 
Anyone experience massive slowdowns with sound cracking on dark/shadow intensive scenes like when it rain or in caves/dark places. I have a 8800GT with latest drivers with Core2Duo 6300 @ 2.8 P5K-E wifi and using onboard sound on XP Pro.
 
Firstly – i did not read the whole tread and have no intention to for mine is just a quick comment:

Saving money employing a crappy developer and using them on advertisement pushes sales somewhat but works only short term. Same as rushing the product to the market. Pity that more and more publishers now consider it acceptable. Selling untested and clearly unfinished product gives bad name and pisses off future ‘quality’ early sales. Now this game was unplayable from 1.0 and even after 1.1a – how many of people who purchased it early would now look at CD project’s releases now and think - ‘wow, a hyped product but i shall buy it @25% of release price after a third patch’.
 
If you're looking to buy this, be warned that there are a lot of bugs and issues. I bought the game last night and returned it this morning. The copy protection it uses makes the game unplayable on a lot of systems. Google the "Please insert original DVD of the Witcher" problem.

The company doesn't have a fix for it. They list a bunch of half-assed workarounds involving uninstalling software, editing your registry, and deleting drivers every time you start the game up. I'm not 14 years old any more, so I'm not willing to spend more than about 15-30 minutes getting a game to work on my system. I didn't even get to the point where I was trying to tweak the system to make up for the poor performance caused by their poor coding.
 
Is the protection system only in english version ?

As for bugs - it only happens with not enough ram in your computer - people with 3-4 gigs have no problems running game.
 
Michaelius said:
Is the protection system only in english version ?

As for bugs - it only happens with not enough ram in your computer - people with 3-4 gigs have no problems running game.
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From browsing the forum, it looks like it's not just limited to people with too little RAM. And in any case, the recommended amount of RAM is 2 gigs. I have 2 gigs. There's no way this game is using all of that up unless they have some kind of memory leak... though given the number of complaints about the game crashing after a few hours on otherwise healthy systems, that's probably the case.

I do not know if the protection system is only on the English version.
 
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