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Hi there!

My system seems to be handling this game quite well, however there's one problem that keeps bugging me, and I seem unable to find a solution for it in the graphic setting:

Ever now and again, and once it happened it stays that way, the whole background graphics during dialogue cutscenes come up black. Everything else is there - the NPCs, the foreground (trees, houses), the elements (rain etc.), just the background, the sky, the distant hills etc. is gone and now pure black. I even had a sunflare effect once without the sun - that looked rather funny. :-)

I'm guessing it might be either a bug and/or a memory issue, as restarting the game seems to help most of the time and I think it only starts happening after a while.

Sure, if need be I could list my whole system here now and ask for Your best guesses, but I was actually hoping that one of You might have experienced a similar problem and might have found a solution already. The things one hopes for when visiting a forum, You know...? :-)

Anyway, thanks so much in advance for all Your help and keep enjoying the game - I know I am!

Update
And, of course, minutes after I post this, I find the solution in the Steam forum. Typical me. Anyway, for those of You who have the same issue, here's how to fix it:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1900094
Post edited June 04, 2011 by wckmn
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wckmn: Hi there!

My system seems to be handling this game quite well, however there's one problem that keeps bugging me, and I seem unable to find a solution for it in the graphic setting:

Ever now and again, and once it happened it stays that way, the whole background graphics during dialogue cutscenes come up black. Everything else is there - the NPCs, the foreground (trees, houses), the elements (rain etc.), just the background, the sky, the distant hills etc. is gone and now pure black. I even had a sunflare effect once without the sun - that looked rather funny. :-)

I'm guessing it might be either a bug and/or a memory issue, as restarting the game seems to help most of the time and I think it only starts happening after a while.

Sure, if need be I could list my whole system here now and ask for Your best guesses, but I was actually hoping that one of You might have experienced a similar problem and might have found a solution already. The things one hopes for when visiting a forum, You know...? :-)

Anyway, thanks so much in advance for all Your help and keep enjoying the game - I know I am!

Update
And, of course, minutes after I post this, I find the solution in the Steam forum. Typical me. Anyway, for those of You who have the same issue, here's how to fix it:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1900094
The Steam forum thread no longer exists. Anyone knows what the fix is? Searching the internet only gives me posts about black screen of death in NMS.

The Steam forum thread no longer exists. Anyone knows what the fix is? Searching the internet only gives me posts about black screen of death in NMS.
no idea if it's the same as your problem, but there's this :
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/975399-the-witcher-2-assassins-of-kings/59292554
that mention that some of the graphic options should be turned off to avoid it
Post edited Yesterday by Sanc