V1.1 patch for Witcher 2 removes DRM

[Phynaz]

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/the-witcher-2-patch-removes-drm-improves-framerate.ars

 

[Fenixgoon]

or if you were smart, you bought from GOG and never had drm to begin with.

 

[crownjules]

EA needs to take a page out of CD Projekt's book. In reality, they would probably just buy them.

 

[dpodblood]

or if you were smart, you bought from GOG and never had drm to begin with.

I like to keep everything together so I buy everything on Steam. That said I haven't bought TW2 yet so it doesn't really matter to me.

 

[Dekasa]

Yeah. CD Project RED has such great customer service it's scary. Redoing the English translation + Director's Cut patch for Witcher 1 + removing DRM after a week is awesome. Absolutely fantastic.

All publishers should take the whole book, not just a page. Save for maybe Stardock and a few small publishers.

 

[CottonRabbit]

EA needs to take a page out of CD Projekt's book. In reality, they would probably just buy them.

Not that EA vs CD Projekt is a fair comparison, but several recent EA game don't have DRM to begin with.

 

[mooncancook]

Not that EA vs CD Projekt is a fair comparison, but several recent EA game don't have DRM to begin with.

Not even activation code / CD key?

 

[CottonRabbit]

Not even activation code / CD key?

CD keys are not DRM nor are they overly burdensome to the user.

 

[Lonyo]

At least one EA game actually gives you a real CHOICE of DRM.
You can choose between SecuROM based CD check, SecuROM online authentication, or buy through Steam and use Steam as the DRM (iirc there's no SecuROM on Steam versions).

I can't remember which game, but possibly BFBC2 had those choices.
If you are going to have DRM, at least have a choice. Obviously zero DRM is nicer, but a choice of different DRM options is the next best thing.

 

[n7]

Nice.

 

[mooncancook]

CD keys are not DRM nor are they overly burdensome to the user.

It's not burdensome until you lose your key, and the longer you own the game the more likely that will happen. Anyway I'm not really offended by DRM except for the "always on" DRM, but if I have a choice I'll always prefer the version with no DRM at all.

 

[Nintendesert]

I had bought from GOG for the no-DRM and to directly support the developers. It was tempting to use STEAM to keep all my games in one place, but I own some all over anyways so meh.

That being said I always try to support the DRM-Free publishers. I've bought all the Stardock games and will continue to do so and highly recommend them. They are good games and don't treat us all like criminals. More money to them for sure.

 

[Bateluer]

Yeah. CD Project RED has such great customer service it's scary. Redoing the English translation + Director's Cut patch for Witcher 1 + removing DRM after a week is awesome. Absolutely fantastic.

All publishers should take the whole book, not just a page. Save for maybe Stardock and a few small publishers.

This.

 

[lupi]

the only problem with this is that when you install 1.0 you still get the drm

 

[BFG10K]

or if you were smart, you bought from GOG and never had drm to begin with.

Amen brutha. I'm amazed people are buying it from Steam given the zero DRM alternative from GoG. Having all your games in one place is great until your Steam account is shut down for whatever reason.

 

[coloumb]

If you were financially smart - you would've bought it from D2D

 

[The Green Bean]

If you were financially smart - you would've bought it from D2D

Amazon has the best deal as of now. $40 for the digital download version.

 

[Qbah]

Excellent news for retail copy owners! CDPR delivers! They also provide a sound and logical reason for including the DRM and the reason why they remove it - "was included to stop pre-release and day one piracy, served its purpose, can be removed now".

The game is amazing btw. Superb gameplay, great visuals, engaging story and great developer support - this is PC gaming at its finest and I hope CDPR will be rewarded with really high sales and GOTY nominations.

EDIT: v1.1 patch resolved my issue (language pack was killing the game). It runs great, looks and sounds amazing too! All maxed, Ubersampling set to '1' in user.ini and still getting ~30-35FPS with great IQ at 1920x1080. The detail in this game is amazing!

 

[mooncancook]

@Qbah, I highly doubt you can get 30-35 fps at 1080p at maxed setting on a 5850, let alone with Ubersampling turned on... unless you have upgraded your pc from the one in your sig.

 

[Lonyo]

Amen brutha. I'm amazed people are buying it from Steam given the zero DRM alternative from GoG. Having all your games in one place is great until your Steam account is shut down for whatever reason.

For UK people, GoG.com was also £5 cheaper than Steam (£30 vs £35). As well as being DRM free and supporting the developer more.
And I'm sure people still bought from Steam :/

 

[Qbah]

@Qbah, I highly doubt you can get 30-35 fps at 1080p at maxed setting on a 5850, let alone with Ubersampling turned on... unless you have upgraded your pc from the one in your sig.

I set Ubersampling to Disabled and then edited the value in User.ini to '1'. Enabled gives it a '2' value. Disabled gives '0'. My HD5850 is running at 860 / 1125, so it's OCed. CPU is stock 2.66GHz. I just ran around Flotsam, turned on FRAPS benchmark for 60s and...

MIN: 15
MAX: 55
AVG: 37.95

Those are the settings:

 

[Zanovar]

I set Ubersampling to Disabled and then edited the value in User.ini to '1'. Enabled gives it a '2' value. Disabled gives '0'. My HD5850 is running at 860 / 1125, so it's OCed. CPU is stock 2.66GHz. I just ran around Flotsam, turned on FRAPS benchmark for 60s and...

MIN: 15
MAX: 55
AVG: 37.95

Those are the settings:

Im interested why you would try and enable every setting here?,im not having a go at you im just geneuinely interested why you would try and and enable all?have you tried various settings enabled/disabled?,just curious about your settings selection here

 

[Qbah]

Im interested why you would try and enable every setting here?,im not having a go at you im just geneuinely interested why you would try and and enable all?have you tried various settings enabled/disabled?,just curious about your settings selection here

I don't understand? Enabling most settings improves the graphics. Only "Texture Downsampling" and "Dangling Objects Limit" have an opposite effect - lower IQ and improve FPS. Game runs great with everything except Ubersampling set to maximum IQ. I manually enabled a "lower" type of Ubersampling in User.ini. Why wouldn't I want to max the game and have it look as best as possible?

 

[Zanovar]

I don't understand? Enabling most settings improves the graphics. Only "Texture Downsampling" and "Dangling Objects Limit" have an opposite effect - lower IQ and improve FPS. Game runs great with everything except Ubersampling set to maximum IQ. I manually enabled a "lower" type of Ubersampling in User.ini. Why wouldn't I want to max the game and have it look as best as possible?

Rofl,you dear sir have alot of testing to do.

 

[Qbah]

Rofl,you dear sir have alot of testing to do.

Care to elaborate on that? Disabling which settings from the launcher would improve the image quality?