My copy crashed a fair bit but only in chapter 5 and mostly because I heavily overclock and some games hate it.
Also I've fucked about 6 different bitches and I'm only in Chapter 2.
One thing is for certain though, Geralt will do anything with breasts. Even vampires.
Every time I launch the game, I can zone 1 time. The second time I try, it stays on loading with no red bar at the bottom. I can hear my drive spin up, stop, spin up again, and repeat, over and over. It stays this way forever.
And yes I have patched. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 11-10-2007 at 11:27 PM.
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Mortious wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
You can turn item names on permanently in the options menu, I did that simply because I was sick of hitting ALT and didn't want to miss anything.
I did until I continually crashed in the trade quarter just zoning out of a house. I wish my computer was better sometimes. 
I had to re-do the beast fight half a dozen times because I'd freeze on zoning into the area after the cinematic and the witch would fall unconcious really fast. :/
The load times REALLY kill this game for me, especially because you have to do it so fucking much.
I do like that you can steal anything you want right in front of people and it doesn't matter in the slightest.
Apparently load times are "the big issue" that people have and the devs are "looking into it".
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Mortious said this about your mom:
Whoa wait haha I'm not an expert, if you have a bottleneck (slow CPU, slow Northbridge, slow graphics card) more RAM won't help at all. I'm just saying.. this game is very RAM intensive.
What the hell is a Northbridge?
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Gadani said:
What the hell is a Northbridge?
Usually contains the memory controller and is the link between all the higher functions of the computer (CPU, Memory, and the various busses). If it's bottlenecked by having an old or crap motherboard then no amount of upgrading will help.
The Southbridge usually contains the interfaces for IDE, SATA, sound, etc. More multimedia.
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Gadani said:
stupid question, how do i gather plants for alchemy ingredients?
Buy books that contain those plants, then read the books.
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From the book of Mortious, chapter 3, verse 16:
Buy books that contain those plants, then read the books.
Yes, after I've done that
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Gadani had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
Yes, after I've done that
Then you just click on the plants, if you are having trouble finding them turn off the grass. Then the harvestable plants should be the only ones you really see. However some area will look much different doing this (The swamp or The Fields)
Also, Since I abuse the cheap shot so much, I have been digging the attacks you do when you knockdown or stun your opponents, First time I did this I got the animation with him grabbing the blade and bringing the cross guard down like an axe, very spiff.
So cheap but so effective. 
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There was much rejoicing when Alaan said this:
There is a harvesting skill under intelligence when next you level.
Thanks, I'm retarded. :Downs: Gadani fucked around with this message on 11-11-2007 at 02:04 PM.
I was zoning into the temple district and it took five minutes. D:
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Gadani's fortune cookie read:
Is there some sort of memory leak where the longer you play this game the longer the load times get?I was zoning into the temple district and it took five minutes. D:
i have had the same issue, so i suspect a huge memory leak.
From time to time, my screen will go entirely black instead of playing a cinema scene, and it'll stay that way after the scene is done until I end task the game and start again.
Also, it seems like cinema scenes are randomly omitted. After leaving the fortress, I saw the funeral cinema, and then all of a sudden I see the woman and the little kid running from dogs and somehow Geralt is there with no explanation. I can't tell if I missed something or if it's just bad storytelling.
After that I tried to go into the inn and got a file not found error and crashed to desktop.
.. and my game ran flawlessly except for a few crashes in the last chapter. Not sure why it's so bad for some of you.
It's cheap but even a little Meanwhile, back at the ranch... sort of thing would have been a nice little clue.
It'd also be nice to know why Geralt was in this town, whether or not he saw the people running from the dogs, whether or not he already knew them (he has amnesia but his dialogue doesn't seem to reflect this when people address him as if he should remember them, leading to confusion as to whether or not Geralt remembers them or if he met them post-amnesia in a scene that was omitted for some reason)
Maybe it explains a lot of this but I wouldn't know because my game crashed.
You just complain too much.
The Witcher's world is unlike any normal fantasy worlds we know from D&D and other such games, with vast expansive kingdoms and soaring towers and whatnot. The Witchers world is exactly how it was in Earth's own medieval period, except with the inclusion of magic and monsters. There are supposed to be several realities and in the mythos humans apparently arrived on that planet when realities briefly merged. Magic comes from the same sporadic merging.
When humans arrived they waged war on the elves, gnomes, and dwarves and because those three are not as successful as humans they lost a lot of ground. And thus are persecuted.
So the humans in the world of The Witcher may indeed have arrived from medieval Earth during a shift/merge of realities.
When the older races (elves, dwarves, gnomes) realised they couldn't win against the humans the dwarves and the gnomes retreated into Mount Carbon (a fucking huge-ass mountain) and still live there today. But the elves divised a means of conquering the humans through use of a genetic time-bomb superweapon. They infused an elf with all their power and let her loose on the world, she wasn't overly powerful but she was meant to sire a child to another powerful elf mage and create a kind of messiah for the elves with powers beyond imagining.
Unfortunately for the elves this female elf fell in love with a human man and mated with him for life. Their children still carry the ancient and powerful bloodline.
The prophecy in the game states that one of these children will be stronger than the rest somewhere down the line, like a "wrong" version of the intended elven messiah, with incredibly powerful magic gifts. Which will signal the age of disdain and persecution, which is where the game takes place.
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Mortiousing:
He's not in a town, he's in the outskirts of the capital city of the kingdom he said he was going to go investigate.
It would have been nice to know that.
See, this is the sort of backstory that could have easily been included in the manual. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 11-11-2007 at 08:49 PM.
Is there a particular way to sober up?
