I've easily spent over 120 hours in Oblivion and it's still not boring. Mind you if I spent 30 hours in Oblivion in one shot I'd get bored easily. Doing anything for too long can get boring! So that unfounded Oblivion-bashing crap woulda turned me off from that crowd too.
Anyway, coming back to The Witcher, how much better does it perform with the patch?
I also cannot speak on The Witcher's performance before Patch 1.1A. I am running 1.1A.
Expect Patch 1.2 before X-Mas sometime, BTW.
Patch 1.1 was released the day BEFORE the game was actually released, since some people already had their hands on the game early and Atari wanted to make some of these people happy. 1.1A was released not too long after (like, one or two days later, if I recall), namely to quick-fix a nasty bug that was still there in Chapter 5 (a game-breaker of a bug, if I recall).
If you're curious of my specs, just see my signature. I am running in 800x600. I have most of the stuff either on Medium or Low Settings, on my rig. Shadows are on Medium. Textures are on Medium. Lighting is on Low. AA and AF is as low as it can go -- either off or 1x. W/ these settings, I've had framerates that are often indoors anywhere from say 30-50, depending on what's happening indoors -- if there's lots of enemies I can expect closer to 30-35, but if there's nobody, it'll be closer to 50; also depends on the size of the areas indoors, too; the smaller, the much better the framerate. Outdoors, framerates are normally around 25-40 frames; again, depending on how many people are on-screen.
The worst framerates I've gotten were in The Trade Quarter (open to the player in either Chapter 2 or 3, if I recall) AND in Old Vizima (Chapter 5) -- both are outdoors. In The Trade Quarter, I can be anywhere from 15-20 frames tops, during the daytime b/c it is a busy place that is loaded w/ people on-screen. I've even seen 10 frames, as a low, once and a while. Framerates outdoors are over 30 FPS when later at nighttime in the Trade Quarter (usually after 8pm, when it's dark out), when more NPC's are not say out and about -- likely, most NPC's then at night are indoors, somewhere; whether it's at home or at the Inn.
Old Vizima area is even worse, outdoors. Since there's loads of enemies on-screen here in this huge area and at most times, you can expect framerates on average from a low of say 10 to anywhere above that. If there's nobody or not many enemies on-screen, no problems at all -- around 25 to 30 frames; maybe more, it depends. Old Vizima level is often JAMMED w/ enemies on-screen, though. That's when it gets brutal. Turning my setting all down to LOW did nothing for me, performance-wise; I'm better off leaving it at the Custom settings I already had listed above (a mix of Medium and Low), as its basically the same.
Thank God you don't really have to stay long in Old Vizima....
By the way, can you modify Geralt's appearance?
Nope, you're stuck w/ Geralt and the way he looks.
