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CD Projekt has announced the release of a new patch for the Mac version of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut. Version 1.6.1 fixes several issues related to game crashes and graphics rendering. Based on the writings of Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, the fantasy RPG follows the exploits of The Witcher, a monster slayer known as Geralt. Players must make difficult decisions in a world of gray areas as they struggle against forces bent on taking control of the world.

What's in Version 1.6.1:

• Problems with memory allocation resulting in crashes and "Out of memory!" messages have been corrected resulting in stability in tests improving by 30% or even by 80% depending on the computer's components.
  
• Major improvements have been introduced regarding the process of graphics effects' rendering.
  
• Most of the issues with crashes occurring during locations' loading have been fixed.
  

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[Thain Esh Kelch]

Uh, so it is playable now? Might get it then!

But what does this mean?

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Problems with memory allocation resulting in crashes and "Out of memory!" messages have been corrected resulting in stability in tests improving by 30% or even by 80% depending on the computer's components.

So the game only crashes 70%-20% of the times it would crash before? O_o I've never read anything so weird..

[doh123]

I hope they used Wineskin 2.5.8... or it'll be dead on 10.8.2 and 10.7.5  :-P

[Frigidman]

Thain Esh Kelch, on 24 September 2012 - 05:57 AM, said:

Uh, so it is playable now? Might get it then!

But what does this mean?

So the game only crashes 70%-20% of the times it would crash before? O_o I've never read anything so weird..

Yeah... that one boggles. And its almost like they are proud of the fact too?

[Smoke_Tetsu]

With WINE(skin) updates it has been playable for a while. With this bringing up the rear it should be even more playable. Seriously though, upgrading the wrapper and the engine to the latest at the time of this writing has made it more stable for me. In fact it seems most of the stability issues are taken care of as long as you upgrade to the latest wineskin and upgrade the wine engine to say.. 1.5.13AMDSpeedHack.

OK.. a few things so far that I've noticed.. even not having tried the patch first. Steam isn'twasn't keeping my copy up to date any more. Possibly due to me upgrading wineskin manually this patch would not recognize my install. But I could navigate the package contents and patch my game manually. I noticed it has the newer wineskin icon so that must mean they must have upgraded the wrapper itself to some point. But yeah if you had previously upgraded your wrapper yourself you might have to browse the package contents of the patch and apply the patches to the game manually by copying over the files from the program files folder in the patch to your program files folder in your wrapper.

[Sargiel]

That does sound like it was previously shockingly bad. I have to admit I bought the game on steam a while ago but haven't got round to playing it yet. Maybe that was a good thing?

[Nox]

I bought it on Steam, too, was an offer one couldn't refuse at $10, and really enjoyed it. But at some point, the weapon selection shortcuts stopped working, and since then I haven't gotten back to it.

[clocknova]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  Just tried it.  It uses Wineskin 2.5.4.  No go to anyone with the latest versions of Lion or Mountain Lion.  Why, oh why did I waste an extra $10 on this game when I already owned the GOG version and had my own Wineskin?

[Smoke_Tetsu]

I don't regret it even though I ended up upgrading the entire thing myself. The $10 got me a legit copy of the game regardless of whether it ran well in wineskin initially. But yeah, even now.. if they used 2.5.4 it's still rather behind the times.

[doh123]

2.5.4 ... seriously?  what...?  Are you sure?  Has anyone tried it on 10.8.2 or 10.7.5?

Are you sure its really 2.5.4... how are you checking version numbers?  Its possible they just manually updated the wrapper and didn't update version numbers... also if you put in your own copy of Wineskin.app from 2.5.4, it will still read 2.5.4.  Wineskin.app goes by its own version number, since the wrapper can be so heavily customized.

[UmarOMC1]

Wait, this uses the Havok engine? Then it should take advantage of multi-core CPU rendering like Bioshock... where the heck's that INI file...?

[Smoke_Tetsu]

Depends on what version of Havok it uses and whether that option is exposed in the .ini file.

I found the .ini file in ~/Library/com.cdprojektred.TheWitcher/ (you can copy and paste that path into go to to go direct to there on your system)... but found nothing related to Havok in there. Most of the options are ones that are exposed in the menus in-game it seems. Furthermore one can't just make up variables and have it work.

[clocknova]

Smoke_Tetsu, on 24 September 2012 - 03:12 PM, said:

I don't regret it even though I ended up upgrading the entire thing myself. The $10 got me a legit copy of the game regardless of whether it ran well in wineskin initially. But yeah, even now.. if they used 2.5.4 it's still rather behind the times.

Oh, come on!  How is buying the game from GOG and installing it into your own Wineskin wrapper any more legit than this crap?  This is an insult.

doh123, on 24 September 2012 - 04:57 PM, said:

2.5.4 ... seriously?  what...?  Are you sure?  Has anyone tried it on 10.8.2 or 10.7.5?

Are you sure its really 2.5.4... how are you checking version numbers?  Its possible they just manually updated the wrapper and didn't update version numbers... also if you put in your own copy of Wineskin.app from 2.5.4, it will still read 2.5.4.  Wineskin.app goes by its own version number, since the wrapper can be so heavily customized.

The Wineskin app will tell me which version of the wrapper it's using.  Besides, when I launched the Witcher app, it opened to a blank screen.  After I manually updated to Wineskin 2.5.8, it worked fine.  These guys have no idea what they're doing, and no regard for their paying customers who don't happen to run Windows.  This is a sick joke on us.

[Smoke_Tetsu]

I'm just saying for me the $10 could be considered paying for the content. The same price as buying it on GOG and wrapping it yourself and if you had already purchased it on Steam for Windows you get it for free. Could they have handled it better though? Yes, absolutely. I ended up patching it myself pretty much.

[UmarOMC1]

Havok engine doesn't matter right now... I'm getting the Black Screen of Über [Force Restart] Death like never before!!! 10.8.2

Holy CRAP!

[dimmer10]

clocknova, on 24 September 2012 - 11:41 PM, said:

This is an insult.

What is? Patching a game? Jeez, you'd think we'd want to see more of that.

[doh123]

UmarOMC1, on 25 September 2012 - 01:27 AM, said:

Havok engine doesn't matter right now... I'm getting the Black Screen of Über [Force Restart] Death like never before!!! 10.8.2

Holy CRAP!

you should be able to Cmd+Opt+Esc a buncha times and kill it without having to force restart.

[Janichsan]

dimmer10, on 25 September 2012 - 10:59 PM, said:

What is? Patching a game?

No, but messing that up.

[clocknova]

Janichsan, on 27 September 2012 - 08:00 AM, said:

No, but messing that up.

And messing it up in a way that was completely avoidable by using an updated Wine wrapper that was already freely available and, well, FREE!  It just makes it look like they don't care at all.

[Wumpus]

Caring and incompetence are two different things. They have zero Mac dev experience before this. Sure it sucks we have to suffer their growing pains, but at least they are trying. Most don't even bother.