+ Gorgeous scenery and wide open spaces to explore. The world feels new and unique. I wish peasants weren't all named peasant or the like.

+ Pulse Pumping combat reminiscent of best-in-class Dark Souls. Strategy is required, button mashing is punished.

+ Story is fun (so far) and largely able to be pushed back if you choose to just do side quests or mash monsters for a bit.

+ Familiar alchemy system with plenty of ingredients.

- Cut scenes chug even when I'm getting a steady 50-60 FPS. The pre-rendered animations like in the intro where Yennifer is racing across the active battlefield has small starts and fits instead of smooth animation. This occurs in 30 or 60 FPS mode at any resolution and may just be the way the video was intended.

- Accessing my character's equipped inventory freezes the game and requires a task manager process stop (Windows 7). This is game breaking as I can't even see the effects of equipped items.

- The controls aren't exceptionally fluid, but neither are they clunky. I feel it is somewhere in between intentionally to give weight to your movements.

Anyone know any fixes for the issues? Anyone have any other great points they wish to share?

I had a few freezes in the menu screen that required task manager to shut it down.
A couple of people have said changing from the default borderless windowed mode to full screen mode fixed it for them.
I haven't tried it yet, but am about to now.

I`m also experiencing game freezes but other than that the game is just beautiful.

I've been having a blast, playing entirely too much today with a few breaks.

I love how once you make alchemy items once that they'll automatically restore (if you have the materials) when you meditate. The first area has been plenty difficulty enough on the hard difficulty setting, I assume it'll get easier and probably too easy as I level and learn not to suck.

I really haven't had any issues to speak of after messing with the video settings to get it how I like it. I did turn off borderless windowed mode immediately however, it shouldn't default to that imo. In my experience you'll always get better performance and less issues with full screen exclusive mode.

Nope! It gets harder. Prepare your nerves for the Forefather's Eve quest in the second zone because you will load a lot of times.

Beautiful game. Loving it so far. Haven't had any hardware issues so far. Running optimized setting with Nvidia and went in and tweaked a couple things. Been reading the forums and seeing alot of problems but I haven't had any so far. I love the open world, leaves so much to do. Just figured out about fast travel but not sure I will use to often because I like just running into random things. The big grizzly bear fight I had was a shock/random because I didnt expect it. Hope to see more of these things in game. Crafting has never been big to me in games but this one I'm actually interested in it. Also, want to see how armor changes up as I go on.