Hi, guys. In my experience this question will probably get me killed, but if there are any kind souls that could help a poor (emphasis on poor) gamer, I would appreciate any help.

I picked up the first two witcher games some time ago and I haven't been able to fully sit down and play them yet. Here's the thing, though: I want to be able to play them at visual perfection. I'm VERY rarely ever a snob in this department but since they've put nothing but good things in those games (I hear) then I want to experience them in the best way possible.

So to make a long question short: What system specs would be minimum to run the first and second games with absolutely flawless (or as near as possible) performance? As nice as it can look while being able to handle anything it throws at me. These games are special and I want to treat them that way.

I am poor however. I have things to work toward and it will take time to get funds available BUT assuming a power supply is not needed (already got a great one from a friend) what would I need to make that happen?

Current specs: Pentium G620, 4 gigs ddr3 ram, a hand-me-down Geforce GT 240. Not sure what else would be relevant but I would appreciate the help.

You would need a much better pc my friend to run Witcher 2. On my last pc with a core i5 2.4Ghz, 8 gigs of ram and a GTX570 I was just able to run W2 with most high settings. I still had to lower certain settings such as anti-aliasing.

Even on my newer pc I can't run the game with ubersampling but in my opinion its unnecessary. I saw no difference in textures and it certainly did not justify the hit in frames.

Keep in mind though that even w2 is several years old now. Still a gorgeous looking game but demanding for its time and even now. W1 may be more forgiving with your current setup but its even older with less bells and whistles. I personally think it still looks good but I'm an old pc guy.

I've gotten my last two PCs from ibuypower. I can never go back to how I used to buy pcs from Dell years ago. You can pick your parts, pick quality parts, and leave room to build your pc future proof for a reasonable price. I spent far less on one of their gaming pcs than I ever did on a Dell that wasn't future proof and only had quality parts for maybe a two year period. My last ibuypower I upgraded once and it lasted me five years until a lightning strike boogered my motherboard.

I spent about $1500 in 2010 for my first ibuypower gaming pc. If you can do with just a little less and catch them on a sale, you could probably still get a very fine gaming pc for $850-1500.

So I'd personally recommend saving your money and letting a site like ibuypower or cyberpower build you a gaming computer.

Even on my newer core i7 4.0Ghz, 16gig ram, and GTX970 4GB ibuypower machine W1 has areas where it stutters but that's more of a loading issue. Older games with older engine designs and limitations.

W2 was the first Witcher I really got into. I've since gone back to give Witcher 1 another try and now I'm really enjoying it. It does take effort however as its definitely old school pc gaming which is great, but requires effort on the part of the player to take the time to learn its quirks and do some grinding.

Good luck diesoft.

Witcher 2 was always very demanding. To run full ultra with uber sampling you need two decent video cards in SLI mode. However, you can do what most of us have done. Manually set the setting to ultra and turn off uber sampling.

To get high to ultra setting (turning off uber sampling) you will need a quad core CPU and a video card that has 2 GB of video ram. But if you have to buy something then it is much better to get something good that will run Witcher 3 and not skimp just to run Witcher 2.

The GTX 970 is a great video card for the money. Heck you can get the game for free (or at least they had this promo). As for CPU a i5 4690K can OC to perform just as good or slightly better than an i7 that isn't OC'd and save around $200. But what isn't know is that while both are quad CPU's the i7 has hyperthreading. This means it can act like a 8 core CPU under the right situations. The question is will any game take advantage of it? I'm thinking probably not as consoles and AMD doesn't use it so why program specifically for it. But I can be wrong.

And if you want fast Witcher 1 load times then just install it on an SSD drive.