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The Witcher 2TW2 sometimes extremely slow to start/load(23 posts)(23 posts)
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Posted June 01, 2011
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Peetz: LOL. Sounded like I offended you.

OK. Check. Clean PC.
Not at all.
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mukhlisz: You did not mention the graphics settings you are using. Mine is mostly High and I turned off Bloom, Motion Blur, Ubersampling and Anti-aliasing.

The savegame cleaner utility is helpful as well as the save files can easily go over 2GB.
I am using quite high settings but when the game doesn't take ages to start up in the first place it runs fine with acceptable framerates, so I don't see how graphics settings could be the problem. My saves folder has 5 savegames now, so that's ruled out also.

Luckily, this problem is not prohibitive because I just tested again after a boot and the game started up just fine. My problem is not knowing what the heck is up with my system that it does this weird slow-up. It's looking like no one here has a clear idea either, but thanks a lot to everyone for trying to help anyway.

I'll have to figure it out / scour the web for answers to similar complaints.
Post edited June 01, 2011 by Ravenburger
Posted June 01, 2011
Actually, this sounds like a bad block on the hard disk.
Check your hard drive for errors (include surface scan). it might just fix the problem.
Posted June 01, 2011
Hmmm... maybe - but if it isn't something that is consistent, then it is most likely an issue with driver loading - assuming that all your drivers are current and working properly, otherwise. There are lots of cases of drivers conflicting with one another on startup. AVG had issues with Zone Alarm awhile back, where it would hang the PC if it didn't finish loading before ZA finished. They were both vying for the same memory address... Network drivers can be an issue as well.

Unfortunately, there is no easy way to figure out, other than trial and error...
Posted June 01, 2011
I've timed it and it is 40 secs, about the same time as it takes my XP Machine to boot.
Posted June 01, 2011
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Danceofmasks: Actually, this sounds like a bad block on the hard disk.
Windows says no problems there, either. I'm about willing to let this slide.. as long as other problems don't appear, rebooting to play the game isn't that much of a hassle. Win 7 at least boots pretty quickly from an SSD drive.
Post edited June 01, 2011 by Ravenburger
Posted June 01, 2011
Try creating a new shortcut from /bin/ folder witcher2.exe to your desktop, it loads much faster for me now.
Posted August 17, 2011
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Ravenburger: Thanks for trying, but removing all but the newest few savegames didn't do a thing. And I think whatever this is, it also affects the time it takes for the launcher to load. Even that seems sluggish and the game loads very slowly, as I explained.
Any solutions to this yet? I have had the same problems since the latest patch. I also started using the ESET Nod32 Antivirus, not sure if that is causing the problem since I put in an exception in the realtime file scan thing for the Witcher 2 and Witcher 2 savegames folders.

I will try updating my graphic card drivers and see if that makes a difference. But my load times were great before the patch; now they take 2-3 minutes.
Posted August 18, 2011
I solved my problem by updating to the latest nVidia drivers (280.26) and deleting 750 saves out of the save game directory. No load lag now.
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