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Old 03-02-2008   #2 (permalink)
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Re: game crashes playing "The Witcher" in Vista


"Kaindog" <Kaindog@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> When I play "The Witcher" in Vista it crashes to desktop stating
> "<program>
> has stopped working". i have all the latest drivers for my machine, and it
> is
> as cool as a PC can get, 6 X fans in total for cooling. i have heard of
> RAM
> getting full and not empting before it needs to be used for the next
> graphics
> hit or other bit of data. has anyone else come across the same issue?
> --
> Gamer extraordiaire
Yes the game doesn't run well under Vista 32 (there are major issues with
the game and Vista 32 virtual memory address space) there are a few fixes
you can try here.

http://www.thewitcher.com/forum/index.php?topic=4965.0

But before you try all those make sure you have the 1.2 patch for the game
and just run it in window mode. after I attempeted all the so called fixes
none of them worked so I just reset my system to all it's defaults and
reinstalled the game and now run in a window (1680 x1050 and graphics
setting maxed) and can play for 2 hours without a crash.

If you can play for an hour or more consider yourself lucky and don't
attempt anymore fixes.

Hopefully the game will come out with another patch to address this issue.

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