Posted July 05, 2015
Lars42: update.....ok after a while swearing and throwing the tv out the window (ok didnt do that ) i did manually find the patch "i was looking for" in my files...after i did patch it from there the game changed from "waiting for release" to "installed" AND not about that.,..the play button was all in green.So happily as a hamster i pushed the button and what did then happen?...wait for it....wait for it....absoluttly nothing did.Infact the play button greyed out .So then i exited the gog (sounds like the caveman gog) and started the caveman back up and voila the play button was again in green.However i could still not play as it said to me "game is already running"...yeah in the background.So now i am trying to figure out what to do next? maybe uninstall the caveman? but how to do it without all its contents? any suggestions?
anomaly: So, was TW3 actually running in the background? If you click Play twice then focus returns to the desktop, but you can see the Witcher icon in the task bar. IOW, it is actually running. Click once, and make sure it is not actually running before getting upset. Ether look on the taskbar or alt-tab to see if it is in the programmes list, or use the task manager. Also, please, please people, start to differentiate between gog and Galaxy. It's like saying you wanted to run Half-Life 2, so went to Valve and not Steam.
i found the patch to run the game in one of my files and installed it so everything turned out good (or so i thought) the play button was in the green and it said "installed".When i did push the play it went into shady grey and nothing happened so i relaunched the platform and the playbutton was again in green.When i pushed it i was told that the game was running (yes in the background).
Then i tried to just uninstall the platform but it took everything so i had to start all over again (installing) HOWEVER this time at the end i skipped the install the platform and instead went to the witcher official site and manually installed the patch from there.I then tried to run the game using the shortcut but instead it took me to the application tools where i had to navigate to "thewitcher3.exe" when i pushed THAT button it launched the game and i could play just fine.
ok found the solution AGAIN....DAMN i am good.
after you did as i suggested redownload the galaxy installer.....it worked for me as i now can use the platform to launche the game instead of going through all the files :D
Post edited July 05, 2015 by Lars42