Are you able to change the texture detail? I'm not. It's stuck at low, and if I try to change it, it barfs on me.

Obviously I can't just remove the -dontforceminreqs tag and see for myself, because the game won't start. Could be something totally unrelated.

Yeah, even if you use -dontForceMinReqs, the game still has to decide what textures it can use with the graphics card it has. Since it still knows your graphics card is sub-minimum (probably, it doesn't have enough dedicated VRAM), it refuses to use anything better than low textures.

If you have a notebook with nVidia Optimus, there are better solutions.

If you have a notebook with only an Intel GPU, the cruel truth is that these GPUs weren't designed to run games like The Witcher.

so cruel!!

but thanks :) :)

that's kind of weird. it makes sense, but it's the first game i've seen that does that. starcraft 2 lets me max out the settings (and subsequently get less than 1 fps).