The Witcher 2Follow

In that case, do you think my PC could run it reasonably well?

4GB Intel Quad-Core
nVidia 8400GT

http://www.techspot.com/review/405-the-witcher-2-performance/



But I dunno how low the scaling can go to tell you the truth. That might be a pretty tough job for that card depending on the resolution you play at. It does utilize CPU as well. The CPU/GPU testing at techspot had the lowest cards in the GTX 450 range and they got a performance boost from OCing the CPU as well.

I have a core-i7 6GB DDR3 and a single GTX 460 PNY OC 1GB and the game played great. Even though that performance test shows them getting ~30 FPS with that card. I was getting much higher but I turned off SAO and Ubersampling as well as motion blur on camera. Everything else was set to high.

Axhed said he played it on low settings. What kinda rig were you playing it on Axhed?

Edited, Jun 6th 2011 8:01am by Shojindo

I'm playing through this as well.

I would say the only flaw in the game is that it will sometimes spontaneously shut down...usually after I've been playing it WAYYYYY too long. :D

Really, the biggest stumbling blocks for people that I can see in the game are:

- Starting on the wrong difficulty.
If you are the type that starts off all games on the hardest difficulty...yeah, prepare to spend long hours staring at the game reload screen.

- Recognizing and being prepared for boss-ish fights.
Yeah, all those oils you can make? They're there for a reason and they are EXTREMELY useful. When the NPCs give you an option to either keep going with the story or wait a bit, you will want to choose the wait a bit option most of the time so that you can drink potions and maybe leech a place of power or two, although you may have to move to a different location first to proceed. Potions are cheap to make--just run out harvesting more herbs if you run out. Far better safe than sorry.

- Getting used to the left/right click part of combat.
In the first Witcher (for those who don't know) you used the keyboard to determine the style and the mouse to time the swings, and were pretty much a chainsaw to your target once you started. In Witcher 2, you just swing away and the left/right click determines the style, but you have to learn to back off or parry instead of madly swinging so you don't get gibbed on a counterattack.

- Packrat tendencies
Weight matters. Those 60 Iron ores you've been lugging around? They're really heavy. So's having 5 suits of armor and 20 different swords. This game is not very friendly to packrats. :)

I'm also going to mention that if you don't have target lock on, it's REALLY cool using the speed style and basically flying all over the the battlefield slicing and dicing.

Bad grammar...>_>

Edited, Jun 7th 2011 3:18pm by Ravashack

Loved that dwarf's comment:

"My favorite type of magic -- Lesbomancy."

I was disappointed how poorly my computer ran this game even on pretty crappy settings... :(

WTB new video card!