Witcher 2 thoughts...

Yes... apparently, the Lady of the Lake bestows crap swords.  Better to wield a cutlass!

Finally beat the Kayran after setting the resolution to 320x175!  Woohoo!

Thoughts on Witcher 2

I don't know what to think of when it comes to Witcher 2.  Sometimes, it shines as  such a great game and sometimes I just want to bash my head into a wall.  My experience has been a combination of many things that I really take away from the experience, the first major factor being Wine's own glitches.

Some random stuff...

First off, git sucks again.  For some reason it keeps deleting this file while I'm pulling to update my branch.  Why anyone uses this stupid software I will never know.

Second, one guy in the Witcher forums had been helpful in providing tips to run the game on.  I am advised to try Aspect Ratio scaling to see how that works.

NVIDIA X Server Settings
GPU 0 > DFP-1 > GPU Scaling Method > Aspect Ratio Scaled

Will see how that pans out.

Witcher 2 on Wine Update

Well, the game finally worked!  I installed it and then installed vcrun2010 and d3dx9 after (actually I forgot to do it before install!).  The game wouldn't work so I decided to use the hot fix installer here.  Frame rate was all over the place and starting a new game would just make it load forever.  According to the Witcher forums, it's because the graphics card cannot hack the game, so I was forced to lower the resolution to 800x600.  I'll work my way up from there because it's tiny.  1024x768 also doesn't work.

On a side note, the GOG release includes the Polish voice overs already!

Additional user.reg stuff:
HKCU\\Software\\Wine\\Direct3D
UseGLSL=disabled

Also, mouse warping is an issue.  I remember now that the mouse wouldn't warp back so I had problems navigating and clicking on stuff.  The pains I go through to play Witcher 2...

Yes!!! Witcher 2 Keys!

After staring through days of the download of Witcher 2 Steam, hoping to fire it up and get a CD key, I was getting desperate that I wouldn't be able to avail of the GOG.com Witcher 2 backup promo.  After going through CD Projekt RED's website for a replacement key, I was told to wait for 72 hours.

I'm always skeptical about these things, but apparently after just 48 hours, they've responded with my new key.  Thank you very much CD Projekt RED and thank you GOG.com! You guys rock!