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Posted June 07, 2011
Hey, I bought the Witcher 2 yesterday (digital premium), and have been trying ever since to figure out why it's running so poorly. I realize my computer is not the best in the world, especially my graphics card, but I feel like it should be able to run this game on low or even medium, but once in the game, the fps drops low enough to be unplayable, and the mouse seems extremely laggy and oversensitive to the point where it's extremely difficult just to click on pause menu buttons. I've downloaded the most recent nVidea update and uninstalled 3D drivers as per a recommendation. Can anyone give me any suggestions as to how to make things better, or if not, to tell me if my computer is in fact not good enough to run this game?
my computer's settings:
Intel i7 CPU Q 740 @ 1.73GHz (quad core)
4.0 GB RAM
nVidea GeForce 310M 2.2GB
242.4 GB free Disk Space
Thank you in advance
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Posted June 07, 2011
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mushroomman2: Hey, I bought the Witcher 2 yesterday (digital premium), and have been trying ever since to figure out why it's running so poorly. I realize my computer is not the best in the world, especially my graphics card, but I feel like it should be able to run this game on low or even medium, but once in the game, the fps drops low enough to be unplayable, and the mouse seems extremely laggy and oversensitive to the point where it's extremely difficult just to click on pause menu buttons. I've downloaded the most recent nVidea update and uninstalled 3D drivers as per a recommendation. Can anyone give me any suggestions as to how to make things better, or if not, to tell me if my computer is in fact not good enough to run this game?
my computer's settings:
Intel i7 CPU Q 740 @ 1.73GHz (quad core)
4.0 GB RAM
nVidea GeForce 310M 2.2GB
242.4 GB free Disk Space
Thank you in advance
The video card is most likely the issue, it's a nice card but just doesn't have enough power to run this game. Maybe if you set everything to low and reduce your screen resolution it may be playable, it's worth a try.
Posted June 07, 2011
reducing screen resolution definitely helps fps, but it doesn't help with the mouse lag. any ideas as to why that's happening? there's also a slight lag with keyboard commands. there's no problems when i'm in the main menu.
Posted June 07, 2011
Sorry to say this, but your video card is an entry-level card even for laptops. It's simply not powerful enough to run the game on more then low settings.

About the mouse lag... try turning off the touchpad while playing.
Posted June 07, 2011
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mushroomman2: reducing screen resolution definitely helps fps, but it doesn't help with the mouse lag. any ideas as to why that's happening? there's also a slight lag with keyboard commands. there's no problems when i'm in the main menu.
I believe you can go into your mouse settings and set the movement speed to as slow as possible and it may help some.
Honestly I believe it is part of the video card problem, I may be way off but I'll explain why.

I tried to run the game with these specs.

Win7
AMD 9750 Quad core CPU
6 gigs DDR3 RAM
2- Nvidia 7900 GT cards in SLI mode.

It was a disaster. Very low FPS, mouse lag so bad I never knew where it was.

I installed a new Nvidia GForce GT 440 and now this system eats everything this game throws at it on high settings. I will run on ultra, no uber sampling, with fair to good FPS.

The mouse lag, in your case, is probably a product of your card not rendering everything quick enough to keep your cursor drawn constantly, therefore the lag.
This is speculation on my part but once I upgraded my video card all my issues were gone.
Post edited June 07, 2011 by WoodCrafter
Posted June 07, 2011
It's the video card, almost certainly.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-310M.22439.0.html

has some benchmarks. Note that the 310M is listed down in the third class (of notebook GPUs, and notebook GPUs in general tend to be less powerful than desktop GPUs c/o power and cooling constraints).

A Quadro 2000M, a Mobility Radeon HD5850 or GeForce 9800M GT should be sufficient -- I'm using the first of those three, actually. Maybe a high-end Class 2 card. I doubt that any of the Class 3 cards would be.
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