Perhaps this is not the perfect place to post this, but since there are no official forums (yet), this is the best place to get in touch faster with CDP.

There are some annoying problems with the Steam update 1.3 and people who bought the game on this digital distribution platform are still waiting to be able to play. Some of them can't even start the game now.

Everything that doesn't work or seems to be broken is posted in the official Steam TW2 forum. The problem is, it's been days, the problems are there and no one cared to answer or give any input on the situation/fixed.

Perhaps someone at CDP would be kind to give us, Steam users, some feed-back on this?
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A reminder on the issues:

- in some cases the game won't start after patching to game version 1.3
- if one checks game integrity cache via the Steam tool, there are 53 files found "missing" and some 9GB download start again /// after the download finishes, the checking of cache integrity starts all over and there you have it: an annoying loop

Also, don't forget that achievements can't be earned anymore after 1.3.

The solution for the STEAM and Patch 1.3 is present in the STEAM forums itself, have you checked the steam forums! (facepalm)..

Incase you have bandwidth to download the game again, follow the below steps as mentioned from the steam users forums

1. Delete all the game and files related to Witcher 2
2. Download the game
3. Patch to 1.3
4. DO NOT VERIFY THE INTEGRITY OF THE GAME, ELSE IT WILL GO THROUGH THE RE-DOWNLOADING LOOP AGAIN.

Your /facepalm, caps use and overall attitude won't impress or help anyone.

It happens that I actually did visit the Steam forums for the past days now and there is no official fix (don't tell me about workarounds) for the issued problems.

Also some people can't "increase" their data bandwidth on the fly. We are also talking about 17 GB of game data... (include the initial optional bonus content of 5 GB data).

For a full priced game that people did pay for, you can't admit that your "workarounds" are the solution for such annoying problems.

So it is problem with Steam!, so why is the issue being mentioned here in GOG forums.

Contact Steam Customer service/support, if you have an account in Steam and are a subscriber of digital downloads in Steam..then wouldn't contacting steam support be relevant.

The issue you are facing isn't first kind, there have been other games in Steam in the past and that is how steam works.

When ever you buy a game in steam, you don't own you..you license it. Steam manages your content (for which you have brought your licence) and it is Steam's responsibility to provide this support to you (the consumer who have brought the licence) with its dependencies such as DRM, AntiCheating hooks, etc...

Back to Witcher 2 <-
Since you have brought the licence to play Witcher 2 via Steam to access the content(ie..you brought the game to play), it is Steams responsibility to give you good access to play Witcher 2 from its platform.

What if you didn't buy game from Steam?..There are other ways you can get Witcher 2 where there have been no issues with respect to patching..all other Digital downloads are working fine, All Retail DVD's of Witcher 2 is working fine. Yes!

So!..compain to STEAM that the game they have provided is not working/accessible properly from their Steam client/platform. Just because Steam has its own unique way of protraying access to content it provides , doesn't mean that is the content developers fault if it didn't work in Steam.

My cousins in states, friends in EU have brought Retail DVD's of Witcher 2, no issues for them..since the game is not sold in Retail DVD's in my region, I got the game via GOG and its working fine.

Where is the problem..its with Steam itself (How the Steam content is accessible to you..the customer/consumer).

I also assume porting the game deployment to Steams requirements costs time, someone has to work. Currently I am kinda sure Steam wants to push this costs to the Game developer, instead of them spending the cost because its the issue with their platform.

--forget all the crap I typed, sent mails/requests to Steam support. Until you don't do that, steam will never take random stray requests into account and not fix it on their end. As long as you brought the game on steam, they will never show face..until people shout their problems/complains--

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If you are unsatisfied with Steam services, I think you should read Steams Terms&Conditions and check if you can go via legal process with the help of a lawyer to file a case/sue them for not providing proper service, cause additional waste of time and money over service/content provided on their platform void of functionality. Also causing other problems, such as requiring the non-functional content to be re-downloaded exhausting your limited access of valuable internet bandwidth (if you are in a region where internet bandwidth is low overall, then this is very very serious).

glad I bought it from GOG! which was cheaper.

Actually, you never "own" a game, no matter where you buy it.

At most you own the disk and the pacakge (and all other contents) but not the software. There is no such thing as an ownership of a piece of data.

What you actually did buy is the right to use the software. And that's also true if you buy it on Steam or any other platform.

Patch, don't verify the integrity, right click on steam, properties - compatibility pick run as administrator. Do the same with tw2. For many the problem was solved (not the achievement, sadly) this way.

@Anarki_Hunter

Things are really simple.

Steam version of the game (updated to patch 1.3) is broken and no one responsible for this cared to make any statement or actually DO anything about it. And that's after the official Steam TW2 forums are filled with poeple that report problems.

That's why one is hosting forums: to communicate WITH the client and to allow information exchange back an forth.

Defending this kind of attitude (or lack of it, if you prefer) makes this discussion really pointless so I choose to end it here.

I posted in the CDP forums, as I hoped that, if Steam failed to move their asses and do or at least SAY something, perhaps the game creators would have something to say. To those that bought their game or maybe to those responsible for this inconvenience.

Was just asking for some piece of information. That is all.

Going to assume that you mean these forums when you say "CDP" forums.

Now's not a good time for communication, sadly. Before the patch, Marcin and Andrzej (CDPR employees) posted every day, but since the patch dropped they've been pretty much silent, though Andrzej did stick around for a little while after to help with problems, in his defense. Maybe they're still watching, but there's no denying that they're saying less.

Best case scenario they're busy fixing everything that went wrong. Worst case scenario our whining has driven them into a deep depression and they're eating ice cream out of a bucket on a couch somewhere in Poland.

Yes, I see these forums as the only way (momentarily) to get close to the CDP team.

Hopefully we'll get some answers soon. And why not, also some ice cream from a bucket, to celebrate a brand new working patch (and hopefully, soon, a new nVidia TW2 optimized and promised driver). :)

Yeah the game is quite broken after 1.3, performance has most certainly decreased and it takes me FAR longer to get into the games menus... The launcher is very buggy now and if I dont manually edit my user.ini file for 1920x1080 it resets the resolution to something ridiculous like 720x576... So there is no option for my native resolution anymore although I thought they were meant to patch this?

And since there is now no achievement support there is actually no point to play the game as I am 99% certain that when it is patched, the achievements will NOT be retroactive... i.e. you will have to repeat content to get the achieve....

Stop using Configurator and Launcher, get the settings as you wish ( in USER.INI too ) and ALWAYS launch via Witcher2.exe so your USER.INI stays with your resolution settings.

Ive mad my user.ini read only but that does not change the fact that the launcher is broken...

I can't go without verifying the integrity of the game's cache because the game simply doesn't start (nothing happens when I press play in the launcher. And nothing happens when I start the game through the .exe). What is up with the goddamn quality control in videogame development?! Only BioWare and Capcom seem to be able to release a properly playable game on day one.