Good day,

I have a problem with this game....

First: My Specs:

CPU: Intel Core i7-3537U 2.0 Ghz Turbo Boost up to 3.2 GHz
GC: Nvidea Geforce GT 750M 4 Gb VRAM
8 GB DDR3 RAM
Drivers Up to Date

I can play most games on Super High or even Ultra setting, but this game won't rise above 20 FPS on LOWEST settings... on Ultra I get 15. What is the problem here? :(

I really want to play this game. Witcher 3 Hype. Just finished the first one a second time and want to Play the second now..... Pls help me :(

Witcher 2 isn't most games. It's one of the more demanding games out there even today despite being released several years ago, and if the benchmarks my quick Google search produced are any indication, that GPU seems to be getting the kinds of frame rates that can be expected of it.

You might try lowering the resolution, because that seems to have the biggest impact on performance and could help you get a more playable frame rate.

Thanks for your reply,

When I change the resolution to 1360x768 the FPS rise to 25 FPS, which is extreme low and also the graphics are really ugly...

How is it possible, that the ultra and minimum settings only do such a slight difference in the FPS?

It's hard to say. I seem to remember lower settings helping in the earlier versions of the game, but the updates have made the game a bit more difficult to run while appearing to reduce the beneficial effects of lowered settings. The frame rate has always been wildly dependent on resolution, though. I suppose that's just how it was designed.

I really do wish they still offered version 1.0 for download, though. That way even people who didn't buy the game at release could patch to whatever point they wanted and thus choose to forgo some of the added content for potentially better frame rates. GOG taking down the earlier download versions was a mistake, if you ask me.

hmmm :/ Is it lega to download a pirateted copy of a game I own? If no, I try finding a 1.0 Version and check if this works better

thanks for your help :)

It's not legal anywhere that I know of, but even if it was, it's unlikely to do you any good since I doubt you'd have an easy time finding a download for the release version of the game. The best way would probably be to find a used physical copy online on the cheap, actually. You can often find them for just a couple bucks these days, and while they have DRM in the 1.0 version, the very first patch removed it entirely.

Then again, all of this is operating under the assumption that my memories of the game's performance several years ago are accurate. Even if they are, though, the difference in performance between the two versions is likely to be negligible.

EDIT: I feel weirdly responsible since I said that without having ever looked into it very deeply, so I'm going to try to find time soon-ish to reinstall the game and take it through various patches to test the performance of the patch versions relative to each other. I'll be sure to let you know if I find anything significant or noteworthy.

EDIT2: Okay, finished results, benchmarked in the notoriously difficult-to-run Flotsam forest:

Patch 1.1 with Ultra settings (minus Ubersampling):
Average FPS: 35.199
Patch 1.35 with Ultra settings (minus Ubersampling):
Average FPS: 33.16
Patch 2.1 with Ultra settings (minus Ubersampling):
Average FPS: 33.12
Patch 3.4 with Ultra settings (minus Ubersampling):
Average FPS: 30.559

Patch 1.1 with Low settings:
Average FPS: 56.352
Patch 1.35 with Low settings:
Average FPS: 47.38
Patch 2.1 with Low settings:
Average FPS: 48.334
Patch 3.4 with Low settings:
Average FPS: 46.532

There we go—some concrete proof that the earliest versions of the game run best. The Ultra specs haven't had their frame rate change very much from patch to patch, but the Low settings have become less and less useful. It's worth mentioning that the patch 1.1 benchmark is using a different save due to save incompatibility between certain versions, but all other examples were using the same save, and all of them involve running around Flotsam forest (so the slightly different starting locations shouldn't affect the frame rate much).