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I haven’t played The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for a while so when I received this email from Projekt Red (The games’ developers) I thought I’d give it a go and installed the 35Gb upgrade.
“The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, one of the most awarded games in history, is now enhanced for the next generation! Take advantage of a free update available to all players who own a copy of the game, or purchase the Complete Edition for 50% off! Return to the Continent as Geralt of Rivia, face off against dangerous monsters, make choices in a morally ambiguous world, and find your adopted daughter Ciri before the ghostly forces of the Wild Hunt.
Enhanced for the next generation!
This edition of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is enriched with various visual and technical upgrades, including graphic improvements, faster loading times, fully integrated emods created by the community, real-time ray tracing, and much more — including new items inspired by The Witcher series on Netflix! It fully takes advantage of what the next generation has to offer. Be sure to check out the brand-new Photo Mode and capture the beauty of the Continent for yourself!”
And now the game is impossible to play.
When I open the game my mouse cursor has a mind of it’s own, the screen is dark, it stutters and within ten minutes it had crashed twice. And that was just within the opening menu.
I installed latest video drivers and that didn’t make any difference so I searched the net and this confirmed the upgrade is definitely faulty/unfinished. Projekt Red have acknowledged the upgrade has problems and say they are working on multiple fixes. We shall see.
So this is a heads up that if, like me, you were tempted by the upgrade, just hold on a whiles.
“The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, one of the most awarded games in history, is now enhanced for the next generation! Take advantage of a free update available to all players who own a copy of the game, or purchase the Complete Edition for 50% off! Return to the Continent as Geralt of Rivia, face off against dangerous monsters, make choices in a morally ambiguous world, and find your adopted daughter Ciri before the ghostly forces of the Wild Hunt.
Enhanced for the next generation!
This edition of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is enriched with various visual and technical upgrades, including graphic improvements, faster loading times, fully integrated emods created by the community, real-time ray tracing, and much more — including new items inspired by The Witcher series on Netflix! It fully takes advantage of what the next generation has to offer. Be sure to check out the brand-new Photo Mode and capture the beauty of the Continent for yourself!”
And now the game is impossible to play.
When I open the game my mouse cursor has a mind of it’s own, the screen is dark, it stutters and within ten minutes it had crashed twice. And that was just within the opening menu.
I installed latest video drivers and that didn’t make any difference so I searched the net and this confirmed the upgrade is definitely faulty/unfinished. Projekt Red have acknowledged the upgrade has problems and say they are working on multiple fixes. We shall see.
So this is a heads up that if, like me, you were tempted by the upgrade, just hold on a whiles.
