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Doesn't help any of them work now, but I patched up to 1.35 using Critical Rebuild, so maybe if I redownload the whole mess and start from the bottom again I could try it. Whee.
Seriously, fuck you Valve. This is not the Steam I know and love.
Electronic cigarette.
Doesn't always matter. Try it anyway. I'm using an administrator account but if I don't tell certain programs to run as an administrator they won't have the right priority and work together like they're supposed to.Originally Posted by Frogacuda
Doesn't help any of them work now, but I patched up to 1.35 using Critical Rebuild, so maybe if I redownload the whole mess and start from the bottom again I could try it. Whee.
Seriously, fuck you Valve. This is not the Steam I know and love.
Electronic cigarette.
If I recall they removed all the DRM anyway, so if you really wanted you could download a pirated copy and use the legit patches on it.
Yeah, I tried that. Those patches are fussy like a motherfucker.
Reinstalled, still doesn't work. Fuck this.
Last edited by Frogacuda; 03 Oct 2011 at 07:36 PM.
I had no problems at all. I hadn't played it since June. I clicked "Play" in Steam, it installed three patches, and bingo. The optimization is amazing. It runs better now in 3D than it did before without 3D.
I realize it works for some people, but Steam games are not supposed to download and install patches, they're supposed to automatically download the modified files so the game just works seamlessly. That's how every other game on Steam works, and the fact that this isn't seems to be creating problems for a lot of users out there and there's no fix.
Please look forward to it!
Try getting in touch with CD Projekt through GOG. I've heard of them giving out GOG copies for people with trouble on other platforms, although that was closer to launch.
I don't understand why they went with such a crazy file system knowing full well that a lot of their customers would be on Steam. Amateur-hour IMO.
Last edited by epmode; 03 Oct 2011 at 11:02 PM.
It seems like the issue is probably connected to the fact that my Windows partition is my D: drive, not my C: drive, and I'd likely have the same issue with the GOG version.
So that's awesome, fucked either way.
Ah. I have all my Steam games installed to D, but Windows is on C.
So I got this working by pirating a pre-patched version, once again pirates provide the support companies won't.
It's not a complete overhaul, but they've really polished up the combat a lot, to the point where the game's difficulty curve seems drastically altered. The early parts of the game were originally pretty challenging before you unlocked certain combat abilities, but it seems a lot easier now, which makes that Dark mode seem a bit more enticing.
Also, this game has a lot of choices and I'm really finding it worth a second playthrough. I don't really have time to dig into it in earnest just yet, but I'm definitely going to go for it at some point this fall.
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