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Morwyn

So I bought the Withcer series since I've never played any of them and I want to run them through in order, yep.

Picked them up on GOG but the first one (Enhanced Edition) wouldn't run so I bought it again on Steam.

Still won't run.

I've tried every trick in existence to get it running, it won't launch. I run-as-admin, I run launcher.exe, witcher.exe, everything. Nothing will work.

Running Win7x64 Intel Quad Core, 8GB, HD6990. Nothing crazy, very stable and 'clean' system, drivers are good bla bla..

Has ANYONE had this problem and found a solution? I'm dying to do the series but can't ever start it!

9 years ago

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ionface

Try windowed mode?
run regedit -> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\cd projekt red\witcher\settings -> set full screen to 0

edit: or in video settings uncheck fullscreen, I see that you can launch it via the editor.

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Morwyn

Funny thing about that, I can run the game from the editor (F5) and it runs fine so I changed a few settings and tried again but it still doesn't work. Odd thing is that it seems to retain the settings so I can disable fullscreen that way but still no luck.

9 years ago
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ionface

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9 years ago
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Morwyn

Finally installed Galaxy (GOG's Steam) but that didn't work, either. Although the green flickers black for a brief moment when launched, it doesn't do anything. Ran Galaxy as-admin, changed desktop resolution, disabled aero and themes... Nothing.

9 years ago
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Morwyn

Almost certain the problem is with paths in the witcher.ini

9 years ago
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ionface

I don't think this game has an ini file.

You might try playing from a new Windows user instead of your normal user account. There could be a problem reading/finding the saves in your home directory (I really doubt it since that's usually a localization problem, something which Witcher wouldn't have, but it might be a permissions problem instead of a funny character-in-path problem).

9 years ago
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Khalaq
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This is a long-shot, but check the programs you have running in the background. I sued to have problems with some of my resident programs clashing with the game I was trying to run. Removing all of my background programs allowed me to play just fine.

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Saotoshi

Did you already try to install it in different directories or even drives? Dou you use default destination or a custom one? BTW, is the process started and killed instantly again, or does the process actually keep running in Background?

9 years ago
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