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Witcher 2 hotfix fixes Steam Achievements, 3D Vision bugs

by Griffin McElroy on Aug 11th 2011 6:00PM

What good is your heroic success in keeping the world of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings from slipping into ruin if none of your Steam buddies are going to hear about it? A bug in the well-received RPG kept some Steam Achievements from registering on players' accounts -- but those dark and lonely days have passed. CD Projekt Red recently launched an update for the title which remedies these incidences of accidental humility.

Other problems fixed by the update include graphical snafus in 3D Vision mode, a bug which allowed antivirus software to treat game .exe files as harmful, and an error which screwed with blood textures on certain graphical settings. For instance, when the graphical quality is turned up to "savory," blood begins to look like delicious raspberry preserves.

Source: The Witcher 2 official site

Tags: CD-Projekt, cd-projekt-red, pc, rpg, steam, the-witcher, the-witcher-2, update

Reader Comments (18)

This game melts my computer. Shame :(

@phillipsteak

Mold it back together and try again, This game is a masterpiece and needs to be played.

or just upgrade your computer. It is not really that expensive as most non-experience gaming blogs or non-PC gamers make it out to be.

You def. need a PC in this day and age, why not spend a bit tad more and make it very gaming-capable.

@phillipsteak

Computer melting is in fact a bug which will be fixed in an up coming patch.

@xiLeShadow unfortunately, I am on a laptop. If I weren't a broke college student, I would most definitely build a rig.

@phillipsteak There's always the console version coming out soon if you don't want to upgrade just yet.

@phillipsteak Shame that you want to play normally this masterpiece in your 486 DX II @80 Mhz ( With Turbo-button on ?)

Shame on you. Damn, the Trolls nowadays are annoying.

@Deo Domuique I'm using an m11x, which can handle most games decently. There's no need to be an asshole. How am I trolling by saying my computer can't handle this game?

def GOTY up to THIS point

Definitely up there for me as well. Brilliant game.

It's definitely one of the best games out this year, particularly because of the "grey" nature of the pivotal decisions you have at certain points in the game. I've played through twice now, and both times I encountered major decisions where there wasn't any obvious right or wrong choice, and each time the long-term repercussions were almost totally unpredictable. Makes for a very interesting and "mature" RPG, more in respect to the complexity of the writing than the sex scenes and violence.

I heart this game. I want a sizable expansion to come out for it!

amazing game, I would love to be able to afford the best graphics card to get the most out of this game, at least my PC works well enough to run it on the lowest settings so i can play it, but would i love to see how it looks running on a high end system.

Have they fixed that 9gb file that must be redownloaded every time an update is available for the game via steam?

@Heston

Never had that problem on my end. I think the achievement patch was a whopping 79mb?

@Heston

they fixed that a long time ago, now steam only patches the parts of a game that needs to be patched, instead of rewriting an entire file or folder.

@BrianH

Weird. I tried a fresh download last week, it finished, and steam started downloading 9gb after the patcher completed. I'll give it another try.

If I have the disc version, is there a way to connect it to Steam? Like if I type in the code from my manual to activate it on Steam? Or does it not work that way...

@Dark Archon PSN Archonik XBL Dar some games work that way
but the witcher 2 doesn't

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Posted: Aug 11th 2011 6:06PM phillipsteak said

Posted: Aug 11th 2011 6:19PM xiLeShadow said

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Posted: Aug 11th 2011 6:39PM phillipsteak said

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Posted: Aug 11th 2011 10:03PM Deo Domuique said

Posted: Aug 11th 2011 11:22PM phillipsteak said

Posted: Aug 11th 2011 6:10PM Tradio said

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Posted: Aug 11th 2011 8:04PM Heston said

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Posted: Aug 11th 2011 8:10PM Dark Archon PSN Archonik XBL Dar said

Posted: Aug 11th 2011 9:00PM alzeer said

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