The Witcher Issue in my system

Hello all;

I got the following system:

Quad Core 6600

Two 8800 GTS G92's

4GB RAM OCZ SLI Ready Edition 4-4-4-15 PC 6400

Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bits

I installed The Witcher. When I launch the game, the screen goes black as if the game is just about to start, but 2 seconds later, a message appears saying that the game stopped working. I press Ok on the dialog box and my desktop appears again.

Then I went to the game's website, to install the 1.3 patch. The website says that I first must install some vista hotfix and the latest video card drivers. When I go to install the hotfix, a dialog box appears saying that this update does not apply to my system. I then update the video card drivers to the most recent one. Then I install the 1.3 patch for The Witcher. Then, when I start the game, exactly the same thing happens than before installing the patch.

I don't know the fix to this problem. Please someone help me here.

Thanks a lot.

1. the vista hotfix needs to be 64 bit version

2. if already updated to vista sp1, that hotfix is not needed.

3. the newest nvidia driver isn't necessary the better, considering SLI performance. so it'd better try different recent driver and to see which one does better.

4. if all drivers are the same, uninstall the game, re-install it, apply patch and just use one card -- not just disabling SLI, pull one card out.

*SLI should be running The Witcher fine on Vista x64.

1. the vista hotfix needs to be 64 bit version

2. if already updated to vista sp1, that hotfix is not needed.

3. the newest nvidia driver isn't necessary the better, considering SLI performance. so it'd better try different recent driver and to see which one does better.

4. if all drivers are the same, uninstall the game, re-install it, apply patch and just use one card -- not just disabling SLI, pull one card out.

*SLI should be running The Witcher fine on Vista x64.

teardropmina

I forgot to say that I already have the SP1 for vista. I will try to see if the game works when pulling one video card out, because I already tried by disabling SLI on the Nvidia Control Panel and it did not worked out. Though, the game should work with SLI..

I have already tried uninstalling one video card from my system, and the problem still prevails. Please, does anybody know the solution to this issue?bandieramonte

well, the only thing left I can think of is that your system needs some clean-ups. My last runthrough of the game was on my ultimate x64 rig, and the setup was pretty much the same as yours (4 core and 8800 series card).

[QUOTE="bandieramonte"]I have already tried uninstalling one video card from my system, and the problem still prevails. Please, does anybody know the solution to this issue?teardropmina

well, the only thing left I can think of is that your system needs some clean-ups. My last runthrough of the game was on my ultimate x64 rig, and the setup was pretty much the same as yours (4 core and 8800 series card).

And exactly what clean-ups do you mean? Can you please specify?

And exactly what clean-ups do you mean? Can you please specify?

bandieramonte

some useless and unnecessary softwares, malwares, or even virus. far often these things got installed into windows without our noticing. some of these programs would be running at Windows startup and keep running, maybe causing game to crash or graphic glitch and etc.